At first I thought Chloe was lying to part the couple but the meeting scene where the husband looks deep into thoughts made me revise it. The end scene where the son, Catherine and David look at each other strangely made me thought they all keep hiding their real feelings like the son didn't tell everything to his father and Catherine is still not sure about who she is and of course, husband lies about cheating.
What do you think?
I thought Chloe was lying about the affair.
shareChloe didn't sleep with David -- Egoyan said so.
But, I think Chloe knows that David isn't faithful to Catherine. Chloe says that she can tell things about her clients -- it's almost as if she's omniscient. In fact, the symbolism supports her omniscience.
"Maybe it's another dimension. Or, you know, just really deep." --Needy
Oh.
shareThe symbolism also support the opening post's claim that David is lying.
David seems to admire Don Giovanni, a man who has many lovers and who refuses to repent for his sins and is dragged down to hell at the end of the opera.
Bad, real bad, precedence that...
"Maybe it's another dimension. Or, you know, just really deep." --Needy
My interpretation was that Chloe was lying because of her feelings towards Catherine. She manipulated her into having an affair. Which is why when Chloe walks into the cafe and sees them both, David looks at her as if he has never seen her before (they just shared a brief glance once before) and then she storms out in fear. That's how I read it anyway.
shareVery literal...
"Maybe it's another dimension. Or, you know, just really deep." --Needy
Very literal, maybe, but that's absolutely how I interpreted it as well. There's utterly no indication that David recognized Chloe at all. I think that the first time Chloe met Catherine in the restaurant bathroom, she felt an instant and deep attraction to her - not in a sexual way, but in a mother/daughter way. Catherine asked her if she was okay, if there was anything that she could do, and perhaps that's something that hadn't happened to Chloe before, or at least not in a long time. She's used to men using her body - becoming who she needs to be to satisfy them - and then forgetting all about her. I think that's why she immediately wants Catherine to have the hair pin, which she says at the end of the movie belonged to her mother. For Chloe, it's never about David, it's about Catherine - she has sex with Michael because he's literally a part of Catherine. Catherine has sex with Chloe because it's her way of getting close to David, who she believes is having an affair with Chloe. Look at Chloe's posture and face when Catherine unbuttons her blouse and then asks Chloe what David did to her (implying that she would copy it). Chloe looks completely deflated at the idea, because until that point she had assumed that Catherine wanted her for her - and be it motherly, sexual, whatever, that love was what Chloe was after.
sharekelleyray writes: "Very literal, maybe, but that's absolutely how I interpreted it as well."
Consider this paradox: Yes, Chloe did not have an affair with David; but Chloe didn't lie. Chloe's reports to Catherine are like parables....
"Maybe it's another dimension. Or, you know, just really deep." --Needy
In the beginning Chloe also says how good with words she is.
shareWhat did you expect David to do? stare at Chloe with a shocked expression, thus giving away that he knows Chloe?
It was good acting by David.
I kind of knew all along that David didn't sleep with Chloe. But that is how my mind works. The ending didn't really surprise me, but I liked it anyway. I have been involved with women who thought I was cheating when I wasn't and the women didn't believe me. They believed other women who gossiped about me.
shareExamples?
shareChloe was a psychotic prostitute. She was lying, but I wouldn't be surprised if she believed her own lies to the point of being able to pass a polygraph.
shareshe was lying, it was super clear!
also when the wife was wearing the lotion there was no recognition
from liams character, smells are powerful he wouldve said "where have i smelled that before" or something!
I don't think we are supposed to know whether she had sex with David or not. It's supposed to be an op4n end.
shareAll men are cheaters anyway.
shareChloe was a prostitute suffering from possibly a borderline personality disorder looking for a mother figure in Catherine. But.... I do NOT think for a minute that David was faithful to Catherine. It was obvious from the earlier scene with his student when he ''missed his flight'' and probably many other times. Catherine had grounds to do what she did by hiring Chloe in order to (I believe) get a divorce process going (which would is what she should have done). I sit on the fence as to whether he took Chloe's advances - we know the hotel scene was fake and Chloe was just lying about him having sex with her but it could have been another time. Likely oral sex.
The ending is depressing... not because of **spoiler** Chloe's death. But because Catherine never came to her better senses and let her stupid husband gaslight into her thinking his affairs were all in her head and she was a nut for hiring prostitute to test him. Also when he said ''I've never met this person'' (Chloe) another lie. She should have left him.