My mom and I watched the movie last night. Our thoughts were that their dad probably killed their mom after she gave birth to Pemon. Since we only have the dad's word that the mother left the day after Pemon was born.
Anyone else have similar thoughts?
ooohhhh, I didn't think of that, but it makes sense!
shareI thought that too after the dad came back and killed that poor girl
ZPlus there was that scene at the beginning where Pemon and Beau were talking over the photo and Beau was telling Pemon how their Mamma looked down at him etc ........
Yeah. she wouldn't have just up and left............
That mongrel father killed her
I made the same assumption after their father killed JoJo. I think Beaux realized it at the end when he was in the boat with Pemon and Pemon confessed that their father had been the culprit in JoJo's death.
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I never thought of that. That's a good possibility! Yeah, it didn't make sense to me how she could just take off like that after I heard the loving words she said about Pemon when he was born. Either that or she took off because he was an abusive *beep*
shareEither that or she took off because he was an abusive *beep*
I thought of that, too but would she really have left her two boys there to be tortured by him? As often as the father was away, she could easily have left with her two sons and disappeared.
I really think we were supposed to assume that the father killed the mother, as well because of all the flashes back to her picture during the final boat scene with Pemon and Beaux. I truly think that is the affect the director was going for but didn't quite draw it out enough for the audience to be certain.
Throughout the movie we see Beaux clearly struggling with his impression of the mother- Remember when he threw her picture into the river and then dove in to retrieve upon second thought? There was something that always drew him back to her and I think it was his lack of understanding about her disappearance. He was clearly angry with her for leaving. When Pemon told Beaux that their father killed JoJo, I think it was then that Beaux put two and two together and realized their mother had likely NOT deserted them.
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Makes sense.
shareI had thought that too. But there is that scene where Beaux is leaning over the boat holding her picture (after her threw it in the water)and he says "shame on you, mama". So that makes it seem like maybe she did abandon them after all- probably escaping abuse.
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I agree he did kill the poor woman. Too bad she did not cook him one of Madea's sweet potato pies before he had a chance to kill her. A swamp can hid many ills, like a poisoned sack of crap husband.
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No, I don't think so. He would have killed the child, not live with him for 20 years. I think abused women leave everything, kids and all to get away from the abuser. Like in secret life of bees.
shareI dunno...it's a lot easier to explain a missing adult than a missing newborn. If we assume we was intent on killing someone, I feel sure he'd have killed the mom.
As far as what abused women do, more often than not, they stay with the abuser, living in denial after convincing themselves that the 10th beating really was the last one, because, after all, he said he was sorry and that he loved her.
I always believed the mother left the 2 children and husband. I thought once she had Pemon she had no idea what or how to care for him (the characters in the film have no financial means/education) I believed the father became the drunk after being left with 2 children and 1 of them being special needs.
Just my opinion.