Jump in the pool together at the end of the movie? After Marie kissed Floriane she jumped in the pool with her friend. They both floated in the water looking towards the ceiling. Why did they do this? If anyone can help me understand this last scene please respond.
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there was one part in the film where marie was talking to floriane about how 90% of people die with the ceiling as the last thing they see before they die. and right before the credits, marie was just like staring at the ceiling.
i dont know if there is a connection at all but the second she opened her eyes to the ceiling, i thought about that conversation she had with floriane.
sorry. that probably didnt help at all.
We shared the same thoughts about the staring at the ceiling conversation. I believe Céline Sciamma wanted that 8-legged scene to be the scene we would always remember, whether staring at ceilings, experiencing our own 'first love' or simply remembering a wondrously intriguing movie about the tortuous thoughts that go with puzzling out the throes of puberty, or of what Nature intended, or about why some teens often don't live through some of these experiences.
P.S. the little fat girl's role was to demonstrate many of the irrational thoughts and deeds some go through while others seem to 'coast through' comparatively speaking...while really struggling just as must within.
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Whenever I decide to visit the IMDb discussion boards after watching a film -- particularly a foreign film, because I usually find them so inaccessible -- I'm always glad I did so.
I think you're exactly right, and possibly for more reasons than you're aware. The English title of this film is "Water Lilies", but the literal translation of the French title is "The Birth of Octopuses". That fits right in with the very last scene being, as you say, not so much two girls as one eight-legged being being born. The film is a description of 15-year-olds coming of age, which is a birth of a sort, and at the end, the two of them could be seen as having been "born" together, their awakening complete ("complete" not being a very good word for it, but I hope you know what I mean).
Following up: now that I think about it, possibly a better translation of the title into English would be "Birth of the Octopuses", which would fit even better. (Been a while since high school French, maybe someone else more fluent than I am will help out on this one.)
shareWe shared the same thoughts about the staring at the ceiling conversation. I believe Céline Sciamma wanted that 8-legged scene to be the scene we would always remember, whether staring at ceilings, experiencing our own 'first love' or simply remembering a wondrously intriguing movie about the tortuous thoughts that go with puzzling out the throes of puberty, or of what Nature intended, or about why some teens often don't live through some of these experiences.
P.S. the little fat girl's role was to demonstrate many of the irrational thoughts and deeds some go through while others seem to 'coast through' comparatively speaking...while really struggling just as much within.
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