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Mildred Kemp... Anna's real mother?

posted 10 years ago by iamahero
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I watched this a few years ago and I didn't completely understand the whole Mildred Kemp thing. But I kind of thought maybe Anna was adopted and that Mildred Kemp was her real mother. Maybe the kids were haunting her because her real mother killed them. Maybe the reason Anna and her sister look nothing alike is because they are not really sisters. Maybe the reason Anna took to violence when she found out her dad was cheating on her dying mother was because her biological mother was a psycho. The theory isn't really supported by the narrative, but it's a different way to look at it.

[–] LaraCroftLegacy 10 years ago

No Mildred Kemp not related to Anna

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Now is the end of days and I am the Reaper:Silent hill

[–] venomous-5 10 years ago

In the beginning, when Anna is leaving the mental institution, M.Kemp says to her "Who will I tell my stories to?" So, in a way, Anna was haunted by the stories she heard in there. I don't really believe that she was "born crazy". She was socked by both what she saw and what she did, that simply lost it. She even fooled everyone -even herself-,(except maybe Kemp.. lol), that she was "cured" and ready to go home, but all she really wanted subconsciously or better put, "her mission", was to get back at her dad for cheating on her sick mom. Thus the closing line "i finished what I started.".

[–] fanatic-music 10 years ago

I forget but did they say why Mildred kemp was in the institute and what kind of stories she could have told Anna?

[–] writerchick89 10 years ago

No, but the article that Anna and "Alex" were looking at was about Mildred Kemp, who was only 19 at the time, and I figured it must be an old article since it said she was still "at large", but we see at the end of the movie that she's the woman in the mental institution across the hall from Anna.

"Not all who wonder are lost."--J.R.R. Tolkien

[–] bobquack 8 years ago

So Mildred Kemp was really the nurse/killer from the newspaper story?

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[–] chuggliams 8 years ago

I hadn't thought of that! I just assumed she'd made it up