I was a little confused about how Annabelle knew about the lady detective and where she lived. Also, was the detective kidnapped and assaulted when she was little? Why was Annabelle killing?
I know this is a majority of the movie but it just wasn't that clear to me even though I thought it was a great original movie.
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It's her sister, and they kept contact after their adoptions in two different families. As you See Annabelle and Hennebelle the name of the heroin are more than similar. And if you don't understand, to be clear, in the flashback, one of the child manage to save from "something", it's Lucy, and just before leaving she promise to come back to save her.
shareI didn't get that...
They didn't seem to have kept in contact at all.
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Wasn't the cleaning woman at the police station? She stole police files that were scattered all over the floor of her lair. She must have found the address in the policewoman's personnel file.
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Hennebelle was the detective's last name, not her first name...i don't think it means anything. And in the ending you find out that it was Annabelle that escaped and Lucie was the one who stayed, as she was the one who ended up with the blue elephant (it was in her trash).
I don't know if they were even sisters...i guess it's all open to interpretation.
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No, the one who stays has given the blue elephant to the other girl. So Lucie is the one who was outside.
shareI missed the beginning of this film so wasn't sure if there was something there that explained this, however, after reading this thread can see everyone else was just as confused or shall i say more intrigued about Lucie & Anabelle's connection. This is my interpretation, Lucie and Anabelle were both kidnapped as young girls & held captive in the same house (but in seperate rooms). Lucie manages to break out of her room & tries to help Anabelle too, however, unable to do so promises Anabelle she will return to rescue her (this is when you see Anabelle give Lucie the blue elephant stuffed animal). I suppose Lucie never got a chance to return (being too young and traumatised from the entire experience & I suppose the police back then were unable to find her), Lucie grows up with a lot of trust issues & becomes a detective specialising in "profiling" for murder/kidnapping cases (stemming from her own kidnapping experience). Meanwhile, Anabelle still held captive either kills her kidnapper or locked in the same room with her kidnapper witnesses her kidnapper's possible suicide (there was a scene where you see a dead woman in a bath tub, with Anabelle close by surrounded by flies as it appears the woman has been dead for a while, stuffed animals & a doll lying close by) Anabelle having been put through a kidnapping & now being locked in a room with a dead woman, flies buzzing around, stuffed animals & a doll becomes traumatised by the whole experience therefore, not being able to distinguish reality, faints & almost takes on the same personality as her kidnapper. Fast forward 20 years later, Lucie lights a candle vigil for the other kidnapped girl that she was unable to rescue(NOTE: not sure if they were sisters or even knew each other)however, she fulfills her promise to the other kidnapped girl (Anabelle) by rescuing Eleonore, at the same time Anabelle sees that although she was not rescued (as a young girl)Eleonore has been rescued & therefore, decides to kill herself in the bath tub, in the same fashion her own kidnapper did years earlier. Not sure if this is what the writer meant, but this is what I concluded with what scenes and part of the story they showed us. I still enjoyed this movie, very twisted and thrilling!
shareExcellent!
You understood perfectly....
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I'm not sure if the woman in the bathtub was involved in the kidnapping/events.
At the very start of the movie is simply a black screen and sounds. It sounds like a female is taking a beating. She screams, then we hear footsteps, a car door close and then the car drive off.
In grey tones, we then see a little girl in a room with a stuffed toy. She approaches the bathtub which has the dead woman and she says, "Maman?"
I was confused with which direction the stuffed elephant was passed... into the room or from the room to the hall.
Also, the hallway in the little girls' house and the hallway in the adult house looked very similar. I thought the plot might go in that direction.
Coincidentally, last night Inglorious Basterds was on TV. Melanie Laurent looks considerably different as a gritty Calais detective then a darling of the Third Reich actress.
I'm not sure if the woman in the bathtub was involved in the kidnapping/events.
At the very start of the movie is simply a black screen and sounds. It sounds like a female is taking a beating. She screams, then we hear footsteps, a car door close and then the car drive off.
In grey tones, we then see a little girl in a room with a stuffed toy. She approaches the bathtub which has the dead woman and she says, "Maman?"
Yes, the elephant goes with the girl who escapes and promises the other she will be back. And the elephant ends up with Lucie in her cupboard. I'd say the one who stayed was traumatized beyond repair and then did all those horrible things, and that's really sad.
If Lucie was that girl who escaped she did keep her promise in a way -- as she came back in time for the diabetic girl.