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Bereavement???.. Not Really!

posted 13 years ago by gudoleboy2
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How can you call this movie bereavement when everybody dies? What a blatant contradiction. Once the dad went down, I was like "Damn, that sucks, but it is called bereavement, so...whatever." But then the boyfriend shows up and he gets taken out too. At this point the title is still legit.

But then Allison carries the boy to her house, causing her to be too late to save her Aunt. So the aunt dies and they're really pushing it now. It can still be called Bereavement because the little girl is still alive. Low and behold, Allison gets killed and so does the little girl. I throw my hands up in the air and am like "WTF??!!!".. Everyone's dead! There's no one left to bereave. It's officially not a bereavement case at this point. I mean... how can a family member grieve for their dead relative when they're all dead? Call this movie anything except the current title because it's complete BS naming this film bereavement.

[–] The_Final_Boy 13 years ago

I don't think the title has to do with the ending but more with the grief that goes on throughout the entire film. There are two story lines (three if you count the love interest) that go on throughout the film. You have Allison dealing with the grief of losing her parents, and you have Martin...just his entire storyline is full of grief, sadness, and is scary. If you count the teenage love interest, William, as a third storyline than he is dealing with his own bereavement with his father and how bad of a life he lives and how everyone assumes he is a bad kid. He has the whole town and his father giving him grief.

So for me, Bereavement is the perfect title and the ending is so bleak that it all works for me. Maybe it can also mean that the audience is left in grief?

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[–] gudoleboy2 13 years ago

Okay, allow me to explain something to you because you don't quite understand the definition of bereavement (I'm not trying to insult you). The term doesn't mean, just to grieve. The word is given to the particular situation in which a love one dies, leaving the other relative(s) alone and abandoned. The key word here is "dies." Without it, bereavement is not the case. And if everyone dies, bereavement is not the case, either.

Now you can argue the title applied to Allison's situation in the beginning of the movie, but she dies by the time the movie is over. Titles are mainly used to sum up the plot of the movie. If bereavement is only present in the beginning of the film, I think it's fair to say, it's not the plot of the movie. Thus not suitable for the title.

[–] moody_mary 13 years ago

Well.. the audience is left alone and abandoned, and let me add astonished with the unfoldign of the plot, if you can even call it a plot.

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[–] Abeness23 12 years ago

Well Allison's rack certainly left me with some bereavement. Had to delete that awful movie from my HDD immediately. Will never see those bountiful breasts in that super tight tank ever again...(sigh).

Officially bereaved my friends. Officially bereaved.

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[–] pdlussier1 11 years ago

The term doesn't mean, just to grieve. The word is given to the particular situation in which a love one dies, leaving the other relative(s) alone and abandoned.

Seems to me you also misunderstand the definition (no insult here either), hence your confusion with the title. The term "bereavement" (noun) is now often erroneously used to mean grief, but it has nothing to do with grief. Bereavement is a state of loss or deprivation; grief is the usual, but not the necessary reaction to bereavement. Bereavement IS NOT limited to the death of a loved one. "Bereave" is the transitive verb that denotes the act of depriving or removing something/someone from someone, e.g. bereft of hope.
"Bereaved", however, can be used as both a noun or an adjective, and this is the word that refers specifically to the loss of a loved one, e.g. noun: The bereaved buried the dead. adj.: The bereaved father pushed for an investigation into the death of his daughter.

That said, and given the abductee/abductor theme as well as the killings, that title makes perfect sense to me.

[–] CGlMDB 10 years ago

U nailed it :)