a few questions


So did Irena get paid to get pregnant? At the end the lawyer asked if she wanted to look for her other children so I got the feeling that Thea (well, the last kid) wasn't the only one. However, I thought Irena said she had several abortions at the doctor's? And why would Mole be so reluctant to let her keep the last child?

Also, how on Earth do you go about looking for a corpse in a dumpster? And the masks, what's the point of that? and am I right in assuming that Mole was the guy who was peeking in the studio when the girls were parading? Or was that the customer?

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Sorry I can't really help you out on that, other than I think Irina wasn't paid, she just got pregnant either from her boyfriend or a John and was obligated just as she was obligated to work as a prostitute.

I'm posting here because I have similar questions:

Did Irina's boyfriend get killed by Mold just because they had a relationship, or because he got her pregnant, or for something else?

Did she really have nine kids or was that just a lie to gain sympathy from the police? If not, was Thea the only one?

Why would she bother putting the pen in the old lady's hand to sign when she easily could have forged it herself? And is that what the old lady meant when she asked, "why do you always have me sign?" or was she asking in the general sense, like "what am I signing?" And for that matter, was she really a vegetable, and got better, or was she faking the whole time?

Great film, though. Well made, and I love how a good script trumps a big budget. This one will be hard for Hollywood to remake and degrade, but if they do, I see Angelina Jolie playing the role of the the adoptive mom! (evil laugh...)

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While Irena was pregnant she got gifts, perfumes, cell phones... and 400 or 500 euros after giving birth. She gave birth to 9 children, but Tea wasn't one of them. When she went to see the gynecologist she had to lie and say that she aborted many times, she couldn't have said: "I sold all of my children". Muffa was never thinking of letting her keep the child because he wanted her to work for him all the time, if she had a child he would loose control over her.

He got his nickname for burying people in the dumpster, and Irena suspected he killed her boyfriend. The customers were looking at the girls to choose the future mother of their child, they were wearing masks so nobody could id them.

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Wouldn't it have been a better business to have sex with the customers?
In that case would have been a surrogate mother and mold received more money.
Then she would have known that Thea wasn't her kid and the story wouldn't work.

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The prostitutes did have sex with the customers while Muffa was basically the pimp. If they got pregnant, he got additional money by selling the children, so thats why he allowed Irena to get pregnant many times but not keep the babies.

Irena thought Thea was her last child because she pestered the midwife to find out the name of the couple who adopted her. The midwife asked Muffa who, to get her off his back, simply told her the name that was on the back of the medallion he wore around his neck (the name of the jewelry maker).

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But wouldn't a gynecologist know whether she'd children in the past by looking at her uterus? Hell, even feeling it.

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I think a gynecologist would know if she had gotten pregnant, but not if the children were carried full term or birthed.

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