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Theory of little girl?

posted 14 years ago by eemintz
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So why did she not talk, and also why did she disappear? I have several ideas lets see if you agree or if you have a different reasons.

1. She did not speak Hebrew (I thought this throughout the movie, could of been like the Asian woman)

2. She was deaf

3. She was a figment of the woman's imagination as was the police officer and the photographer. This third idea I saw on a different post, don't think it holds much water but its something someone wrote so I thought I would post it.

4. My dad thinks she maybe stopped talking do some trauma.

[–] lubin-freddy 13 years ago

I thought it was obvious that she was Batia as a young girl, a surreal plot point in an otherwise realistic film, that allows her to come to terms with her childhood trauma.

She didn't speak, because she didn't need to. She was there, much as the "empty chair" in gestalt therapy, to allow Batia to project her own feelings. She disappeared when taking Batia back to the place of her trauma, giving her the chance to have a personal breakthrough.

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and you can't slow down
You can't let go
and you can't hold on

[–] ezzy666 13 years ago

I watched the last 30 or 40 minutes of the movie and agree with the previous poster about the little girl being Batya when she was young. I was confused about why she was a little girl when she almost drowned and why she was grown up when she left the hospital.

[–] mojo3035 13 years ago

I watched it also....I agree it was Batya, her parents were arguing on the beach...how careless leaving a child on the beach or rather in the ocean to play by herself thank God for the float. Perhaps she needed to get in touch with that side of her she tried to forget and the little girl showing up represented that.

Think the cop was real - she went back to him to report the little girl was missing...perhaps the cop represented doing things correctly - taking responsibility....ummwas kinda cool when she visited her dad while looking through the album and the little girl pointed out the man selling the ice cream with his shirt blowing in the wind - love the effect of the blowing shirt.

Batya was always ignored/rejected
the landlord ignoring her plea of fixing the leaky roof
being ignored on the beach (as a child) when the mom was arguing with the dad for being unfaithful
being ignored by her mother again in the hospital (adult)

But even as an adult she ignored herself (she left the little girl unattended to tend to the people at the wedding) though not fully irresponsible she couldn't leave her at home unattended

In the end when she dove into the ocean - I guess that was sort of closure for her and the final satisfaction of having what she really wanted - ice-cream lol

I know too long I know ...any thoughts? these are just mine....

What about the woman that committed suicide? any thoughts

[–] lubin-freddy 12 years ago

I pretty much agree with the last post. Did you know that Etgar Keret's father played the ice cream man?

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