What I thought when I saw that was that the wife was doing the one thing that would haunt Herb and Pippa the rest of their lives. People do this in real life not infrequently. Kill themselves in front of someone to punish the person. It seemed to work. 25 years laters, Pippa was still disturbed by it.
Having said all that, I'm confused by the very brief flashback later in the movie, to the wife's "suicide," where it appears that Herb struggles with the wife over the gun, and it turns inside the wife's mouth. Very different from the scene when it was shown originally.
I am thinking the first recounting is the correct one, and the flashback is Pippa trying to make the suicide something other than suicide, since it is still bothers Pippa that the wife did that.
Also...suicide fits, when you consider what she said right before it. That she had a dead pig on the table to eat, with the face, because people try to forget what it is they are eating, until they see the face of it. (Just as they are about to see her, the wife's, face blown to bits.)
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werecow2003
9 years ago
I'm confused by the very brief flashback later in the movie, to the wife's "suicide," where it appears that Herb struggles with the wife over the gun, and it turns inside the wife's mouth. Very different from the scene when it was shown originally.
I am thinking the first recounting is the correct one, and the flashback is Pippa trying to make the suicide something other than suicide, since it is still bothers Pippa that the wife did that.
From the narration during that scene, it suggested to me that she finally felt rid of the guilt (she'd passed the torch to Sandra), as if she'd never shot herself. I think that's what the visuals were supposed to imply.
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