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Some theories

posted 10 months ago by holly61 (907)
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Here are my thoughts

* Katherine's husband had cheated on her before. He had sex primarily with students. He had perfected his ''cheating'' though in that he mostly did it with young women he taught seminars to in the U.S. My guess he did it less while in Toronto Canada and it was harder for her to catch him in the act. Meeting Chloe he seemed very guarded and he was unlikely to sleep with her as I said because he did it with women in New York where he couldn't be found out (no one around that they knew to catch him).

* Chloe did not see Katherine as a mother figure or lover. She was jealous of her and her way of living. She wanted ''the life'' Katherine had. She had a desire to actually RUIN Katherine's life.

* Chloe infected Katherine's son with HIV to hurt Katherine. It's never determined in the film but its slightly hinted. Her ''clean bill of health'' was faked. Chloe had HIV.

* Though Katherine's husband was cheating on her with other girls and women I do think by the end they reconnected emotionally. He had fallen out of love with her before and then back in love with her. I think he may no longer cheat... but there's also a chance he's a sex addict too so it's unclear how it all ended up.

[–] alex321 (52) 2 months ago

I don't think he ever cheated on her and all the scenarios she made up in her head were part of her feelings of insecurity towards her husband. She is also having an identity crisis on top of feeling undesired (after she tells him that she has felt different ever since she became a mother) that leads her to suspect him cheating on her. We find out in the end that it's most likely that he never cheated on her and the time he spent with students outside of school were not of a sexual nature.

As far as Chloe, I think that is more debatable. We're not shown what her true intentions were but I think there are some clues that lead to her actually wanting a relationship with Catherine.

1) Pretending to meet with her husband and having sex with him to confirm her suspicions as a way to potentially her leaving him to get closer to her.

2) Sleeping with her son to get back at her after Catherine finds out the relationship Chloe had with her husband was all made up. She wants to have sex with him specifically in her bedroom, in her bed and has to look at things that remind her of Catherine (her shoes) to satisfy her sexually.

3) There is a moment when they are sitting together at her place of work and Chloe starts crying in the hope that Catherine would feel empathy towards her (right before that you can clearly see that she is looking away and smiling making it all an act).

These are all manipulations that she used in order to be with her because I think she was in fact in love with her. Catherine, I believe, also had feelings towards her but I think she was also using her as a way to get closer to her husband.

The end was the realization that she couldn't be with her anymore and decided to kill herself. Even though she was pushed by Catherine I believe Chloe provoked her into pushing her to make her feel culpable for not having the same feelings towards her that she had for Catherine.