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she was selfish!

posted 15 years ago by orangewarm
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How could she not tell her husband and family her motives...didnt she know they would go through hell?

The very fact that they turned off on her and left her for dead compounded her drama. Not only did she lose her child, herself, but also, everyone she knew and her family. And nobody cared, or came to see her, when she needed it the absolute most. They presumed she was a killer, even though absolutely everything in her character pointed otherwise (and she wanted it, which is why she told the guy that Lea was the one who finally came to visit her, years later).

[–] Leroy_sprung 15 years ago

The death of her child DESTROYED her. She didn't care about anything or anyone. I'm sure the welfare of her parents was the last thing on her mind.

[–] mzladymoon 15 years ago

Is that an excuse for keeping the boy's father from him?

Doesn't work for me. This is not a character to care about. Her husband lost a child too.

[–] agera 14 years ago

"The very fact that they turned off on her and left her for dead compounded her drama. Not only did she lose her child, herself, but also, everyone she knew and her family."

Her sister, Lea, didn't do that. Don't you remember the notebook Juliette found? In it, her then teen-aged sister (I think, I know Lea was quite young) marked off every day in her diary how long it'd been since she'd seen Juliette. Lea was still young and under her mother's thumb at the time of Juliett's trial and imprisonment but she never forgot her big sister. She missed her and grieved for her.

[–] tbionic 15 years ago

Everyone is selfish in this movie to a certain extent, that is why it is so powerful.

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[–] netshopper-2 14 years ago

I agree that she was. Her sister Lea was a saint. A saint with two young kids and a husband. Having a gloomy, brooding, walled-off sister living with them had to be taxing for all. I thought her silence hurt her sister the most.

[–] Imdb11168 11 years ago

I went searching for a post about the father, and saw yours, with no activity for 3 years. Maybe the father has been discussed elsewhere, I did not have the patience to read the other threads fully. But I saw very little anybody has written on the father.

I'm going through a divorce and I've seen the unilateral decisions my wife takes on the Children, so I'm a bit biased. I saw this movie because the Juliette's expressions on the cover made me remember the loss of my children, and the title of the movie touched me emotionally. Initially I had sympathy for Juliette, but the first thing that struck me when the real story came out was, what about the father's emotions ? It was the worst thing possible a wife could do and i have no sympathy for Juliette.

Darkness lies an inch ahead

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