I was thinking the same thing. In fact, when she goes to see that lady to ask her to find another family for Lily, when the lady says "you petitioned for custody, you got it!" and when Emily asks how she "makes it work" when the lady said something along the lines of "the same coping and parenting skills you teach every day." I thought, at that point, that it was going to take a twilight zone turn and she was going to try to love the child and perhaps turn the tables on the child with the threat to not love her and the threat to leave her.
However, that would have been predictable to me, so I am not sure how I would have enjoyed it. I know they could have made a better ending with that than either the regular or alternate ending. I also think they could have had a much better ending with the happy ending. Personally, it did freak me out when she was able to knock down the door like that with so much power, and then on the floor she was like "what are you doing under there you silly pumpkin head? You don't want me to have to come under there and get you do you?" And she starts counting and then she cocks her head and limbs in that freakish way. Scared me (ok, i was a tad stoned when i watched this, ill admit).
Anyway, I didn't like her looking rather big and demonic/monsterish at the end under the water. The first 4/5 of the movie were scary, to me, because it was more of a psychological thriller, leaving a lot of it to our imaginations. When they crossed the line to show what she really looked like, it came off bad. They should have just left us wondering what she really was if this was the only idea they had.
Also, the Lily/Demon actually looked scared when Emily didn't budge despite the visions that were being put into her head, and when Emily said she wasn't scared and started going faster. How much power did the Lily/Demon have? It looked like it had quite a bit if she could actually do the damage she did to that door. It didn't go back to normal. It was actual physical damage, and not just an illusion like a lot of her other tricks. I am not sure how difficult it is for her to change into that form, or if thats just her real natural form. If its her real natural form, then I'm a bit surprised she didn't turn into sooner in the car when they were struggling for control. I don't know.
Over all, the movie kept me interested.
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Shazam111
13 years ago
I *beep* myself when Lily was counting to 3 with Emily hiding under the bed. I agree with what you say about them showing us lily in her demon form, it did take us off coarse a bit. I think she turned into demon form when she was genuinely angry. We saw her flicker between human and demon form when lily said "Dont yell at me" to Emily. And barging the door open she seemed pretty angry. But im not 100% sure.
I do know that Eddie said to Emily on how to kill lily, "and i'll tell you what i did different. Count yourself dead at the outset. Accept that going in. Use it to your advantage. If you're not afraid she can't hurt you."
Hence why no demon lily at the start when eddie and his wife tried to throw lili in the oven, and perhaps why no demon lily in the car at the end.
But there were many unanswered things about lily's power, aswell as Emilys morals, which i kinda liked about case 39 because it lets me make stuff up :)
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Eve_of_Destruction
12 years ago
If you're not afraid she can't hurt you."
Hence why no demon lily at the start when eddie and his wife tried to throw lili in the oven, and perhaps why no demon lily in the car at the end.
Yeah this is the line of thinking I had. Her power came from fear. If they had no fear she was weak.
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