the issue with Cade's mother. She couldn't stand to be around Tori because of what (she thought) her father did, but once Tori found the real killer, wouldn't Margaret be grateful? I think they left that storyline hanging. She could have gone with her kids to the place in the woods at the end to remember Hope. But maybe she was just too stubborn. Either way, it felt unresolved to me.
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good point
shareThat's the way the book ended, isn't it? The way I remember the book was that Cade's mother moved out of the house because he was intent on pursuing his relationship with Tori. And that happened all before the true killer was identified.
Unfortunately, I missed the first airing of this...meeting that went long. I'm hoping to see it when it plays again.
I loved that. First of all, that's how it was in the book--everybody got with the new program except Margaret. Second of all, isn't it a relief not to have every single thing tied up in a happy bow for once?
shareYes. That's true. I didn't read the book. But even if she was still unable to have Tori in her life after the real killer was identified, shouldn't they have said so? She disappeared before it all went down. We'll never know if she would have changed her mind.
It's just a small thing I thought about at the end. I really loved the movie.
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She still would be the way she was. Seeing the person that should have died with Hope.
shareThe point of it wasn't that she thought Tory's father was the murderer. The point was that she believed Tory was at fault because she knew what happened, yet she wasn't there to stop it. Tory would always have the blame, because she was the friend who was planned to meet Hope where she was murdered, but she never went and (in her mind)was responsible (even though Tory was physically incapable of going).
shareyou HAVE to read the book, I enjoyed the movie though at times I felt they cut out important parts and sometimes the acting got bad. They also change some stuff around by completley making up scenes that dont even occur in the book (like most of the beginning). Anyways, in the book it shows that the reason Margaret hates Tory so much is because she lived while Hope died. Hope was the favorite, the glue that held the family together and when she dies everyones life kind of fell apart, except Cade. Their father in his sorrow turned to booze and other women, dying in a plane wreck with a mistress, Faith brings scandal to the family name and Margaret turns from her children to her garden refusing to have a relationship with the two alive. Margaret says "it should have been you" to Tory. Even with the real killer brought to justice she hates her for the fact that she lived. In the book the impression it leaves you is that she will never change because her heart is to hardened.
Hope that helped!
I don't know whether or not Margaret was supposed to be sympathetic, but she was not. What grown woman blames a child who wasn't there for her daughter's murder? Then claims the 10 year old kid ran away from her responsibility. What 10 year old gets to decide where the whole family will live?
Margaret's thick headedness made me annoyed by her and not care what she thought about anything.
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Good point also Tori didn't run away Margaret paid Toris father to take his family and leave town.
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