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Loved it and did anyone notice ???

posted 14 years ago by nigel_243
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In the film, whent hey talked about Alice as a ghost, they were always describing Home Movies that we SEE in the film.

So like when the dad talks about going into her room after she dead and she turned and looked at him and starts screaming, LATER ON we see a home movie that the brother shot where she does exactly that !

When the mother is doing her seance thing with the psychic dude, she goes into her room and sees alice sitting in the chair....

Later we ALSO see alice in a home movie sitting in the chair !

I think that there is a lot more going on in this film than what it seems.

It's like the home movies have made the family confused about if there even is a ghost at all....

[–] Janissa_Stott 14 years ago

Thats exactly what I thought!

Like the family is confusing their memories with reality.

I think its a VERY clever touch by the writer director, im glad someone else picked this up.

[–] The_Secret_Skull 14 years ago

Well, you were supposed to notice these things. That was the whole reason they mentioned them.

[–] vhavnal 14 years ago

Its actually a whole psychological thing. It happens when someone close to you dies and you mix reality with the unknown for example a part where the mother says she felt her daughters ghost standing at the end if her bed and crying, that actually happened but it wasn't a ghost but her daughter herself (A few months earlier) who felt guilty for what she did with the neighbour guy, the mother felt her daughter standing there and crying sub-consciously and thus it remained in her memory, Her father mixed the fact that her daughter did shout at her when he walked into her room months earlier because as it happens, when someone close to you dies, their best memories you have become dreams because you dream about them every night and thus and thus what the father though was a "ghost" was infact a reality turned into a dream turned into a nightmare.....Its really hard to understand how a mind works and what her brother did was silly but it also brought into light some truth about their daughter which no one knew about..

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