I don't intend to see Halle in what I suspect will be another mediocre performance, but please SPOIL and answer this question:
What exactly happens in Frankie's past to trigger the multiple personality disorder? Incest? Witness to a murder of a loved one? Rape by someone other than a relative?
Sorry in advance if you feel her performance in this film IS Oscar-worthy! The only movie I enjoyed of hers was the Dorothy Dandridge miniseries on HBO.
She and her mother were maids for a rich white family. Frankie ends up falling in love with the teenage boy of the house and they run away together. They end up getting in a car accident and he dies. She finds out she's pregnant and her mother delivers the baby, but we are to think that the mother killed the baby upon delivery.
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I thought the baby was alive and the mother killed it because clearly the child was very light skinned, so much so that it appeared to be a white person.
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I think she was the favorite because of what happened with the baby, the mother felt guilt.
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I thought the same.
That when Frankie's sister asked her mother why she always made excuses for Frankie, her mother didnt answer. Maybe she was compensating for taking the baby away? I dont know if she killed the baby, or perhaps just left it somewhere.
But Frankie's mother seemed to see potential in Frankie and had high hopes for her. Which made me think that she may have got rid of the child, so Frankie's life wouldnt be 'ruined' by being a young single mother?
Does anyone else think the mother thought the baby would disadvantage Frankie?
I don't think we are to believe the mother killed the baby. I think Frankie wanted so much to believe the baby was alive that she imagined the movement as the mother left with the baby. Better yet, let me just say that I didn't believe that the mother killed the baby. I enjoyed the movie and I loved Stellan Skarsgard, thought he was so well paced nd his tone was wonderful. I loved the way Halle and Stellan played off each other.
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I don't think we are to believe the mother killed the baby. I think Frankie wanted so much to believe the baby was alive that she imagined the movement as the mother left with the baby. Better yet, let me just say that I didn't believe that the mother killed the baby. I enjoyed the movie and I loved Stellan Skarsgard, thought he was so well paced nd his tone was wonderful. I loved the way Halle and Stellan played off each other.
What I got out of it was that the mother took the baby away, gave it to an orphanage or something and just let Frankie believe that it was stillborn. Why it stopped crying I don't know, but when they show the short (and dialoguless scene with Frankie confronting her mom, immediately after they cut to a scene of the young girl Frankie worked with at the strip club. I think the implication was that THIS was her child. It's a ridiculous stretch and amazing coincidence that they would have even been working in the same strip club at all, but there was no reason to include that scene unless this was what the writers wanted to convey.
I liked this movie, but too many things were left far too vague.