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SPOILER: Mistake in Edo's 'flash'.

posted 13 years ago by emul0c
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In the scene at the dinner where Edoardo realises that his mothers is having an affair with Antonio, he 'saw' a couple things that led him to realise that his mother was having the affair - in the "vision" he saw the book which his mother stole in the shop. But why would that book lead Edo to realise that they were having an affair - Emma stole the book (by mistake), so it was not a book that she had previously owned or having an interrest in, she only looked at it because she was using the shop for hiding. Edo then saw the book in Antonios kitchen, but did not know it belong to his mother - so why would he use the book as a reference in his vision? He did not know it was his mothers book, he saw it at Antonios, and the book had no particular connection to his mother elsewhere.

Besides that - must be one of the most boring movies I have ever seen.

//Steffen.

[–] Meven_Stoffat 13 years ago

Because he previously owned a copy of the book as a youngster. That's why Betta was so eager to find it when she found it in Nice, not to mention she knew about how much he loved it.

Agreed about your opinion of the film though. Total anti-bourgeois propaganda bullsh-t.

I have a huge rodent problem.

[–] chuck-526 12 years ago

According to the commentary on a DVD, that book is fairly famous as supplying inspiration to high fashion design. At one point we are shown one of the pages of the book which is a woman in an odd-looking dress that includes a large and distinctive geometrically patterned cape over one shoulder. The dress Emma is wearing when she comes down the stairs to Edo's birthday dinner is a recreation of that very dress.

Edo's flash of recognition when he sees the soup includes a lot of short flashback images such as his finding the lock of hair at Antonio's, and also includes both that page of the book and Emma coming down the stairs in that dress. In other words the "flash" was not to any particular book, but more specifically to a page from that book having inspired the dress that Emma was wearing.