The cliche' that put a tombstone on this movie...
The burning of the house(The younger and more irresponsible sister always f... it up)
THE WORLD IS YOURS
Certainly. And everytime I want to smash in the face of the guilty party.
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I didn't see it that way.
I saw it as a **** up that happened because Rose abandoned Norah to go to her baby shower
Norah was knuckling down and getting the work done, Rose neglected her duties because she wanted to appear successful to her old high school friends.
Norah only turned from her duties when the kitten appeared, her caring nature would not allow her to put her own problems first.
Norah had no reason to light the candle EXCEPT to provide some kind of disaster to drive the plot. It wouldn't have bothered me so much if she'd caused a fire with a cigarette, since she had disposed of them improperly before...but the candle was random and unnecessary. I did not like the implication that Rose was not allowed to seek some normalcy without repercussion. It doesn't help with her self-esteem issues. Her decision to leave the party was more than enough.
My other problem was with the CB radio to heaven. I wanted to gag as soon as Paul Dooley gave his explanation.
What bothered me was how it got dark so quickly. It appears to be mid-day when the fire starts. It is certainly no later than mid-afternoon when Amy leaves the party. Yet it is pitch black when she shows up at the house. That would imply a 2-3 hour drive to the house. And I'm no arson expert, but wouldn't a small, one story house like that be pretty much burned to the ground after that long?
share/wrduncan3 What bothered me was how it got dark so quickly. It appears to be mid-day when the fire starts./
I agree, wrduncan3. Rose certainly left the party during daylight. I doubt the house they were cleaning was so far away that she would arrive after dark, even if she stopped home to change out of her party dress.
The filmmakers should have resisted the drama of the flames against the dark sky.
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Just a thought, but maybe what they couldn't resist was having to shoot that scene at night because not everything was ready until it was dark and they couldn't afford or logistically manage to reshoot it another day (because it involved fire, they'd need lots of people at the location that they wouldn't have used on other shooting days--people who cost plenty of money and who have other things scheduled, not to mention just having to factor in their daily shooting costs in general).
Maybe it wouldn't have been impossible or impractical to reshoot the surrounding scenes so that they seemed later in the day (although it might have been), but among other things, then they'd have to consider whether it would be plausible to have the baby shower later in the day.
Anyway, I agree that it's odd that Rose gets there when it's dark, but I can't say it bothered me at all. I think I would have noticed more if the baby shower were starting at 5 or 6 p.m. or later.
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She lit the candle because of the smell?
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I think it's fairly obvious that the candle was lit bcause of the smell. Of course it was a plot device - 99% of scenes in any film are a plot device.
shareSure. But it wasn't simply a plot device to cause a disaster. I can easily see her character doing it. She is obviously the more irresponsible one, she doesn't think things out clearly, she is not as dedicated as her sister was therefore probably didn't even care as much about the process and rules of clean up and lastly, she was on her own. If her sister were there, it would not have happened.
Sure, a plot device by definition, but a calculated one at that.
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I think she did it to help alleviate the odor.
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