I think maybe so. She stayed out after Livia complained about not feeling good. And why did Andre lie to the Doctor? Nils knows he lied. Andre had to stop him from telling the Doctor something that Andre didn't want to doctor to know/hear.
I think that Miriam stayed out to let her die. Or,at least get sick.
All in all, I thought it was 6/10
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I don't really think so. I just got the feeling that Miriam was utterly ignorant of how to treat someone after they'd apparently suffered a concussion. Remember that Livia seemed cognitively okay for quite a while after the blow, and only collapsed some time afterward. Someone without any form of medical expertise could easily see that and assume that she was perfectly fine, and that the injury was nothing particularly serious. Though Miriam obviously wanted to be with Bill, I gather that her intentions were to "protect" Livia, not to forcibly eliminate her as competition for his affections.
As for Andre's dishonestly, that's harder to explain, but I think he was just trying to cover for his wife's mistake. Though it wasn't much evidenced in the film, he most likely loved her and wouldn't have wanted to see her raked over the coals for something that was purely accidental.
Honestly, I thought the whole climax of the film was rather gutless and predictable. Bill's admission of his love for Livia could have easily lead in several other directions that would have created a stronger production as a whole. She could have ended up rejecting Bill, it could have provoked Nils to be forward with his feelings instead of continuing in his largely stonewalled approach to Livia; this would've even been an interesting tie in to his largely unexplained interest in World War I battle strategy, or they could have gone with the gutsiest possible ending and placed Livia and Bill together in a relationship that wasn't depicted as being in one way or another abusive. Instead the filmmakers went with the simplest possible escape route and simply killed Livia.
The kid had to beg her to go back in she knew she had hit her head hard enough to have to go to the hospital. I wonder if she had asked to change sides because she knew the kid was inexperienced and would stand up to be hit by the sail. So maybe not murder but lack of caring sure do play into it.
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