two things they didnt show in this film

I'm sure the next thing she did was rush out of the apartment to try and help the kids.

1. I'm not sure what she could or would have said in the moment. I think Beau Willie was so far removed from reality at that point nothing would have reached him.

In the original manuscript of the play on which this is based, the children dropping scene is done as a flashback during a monologue, where the speaker describes the situation and the audience sees the children dangling from hands in a high position all done as shadows. The monologue ends and the lights suddenly cut out so the deaths are unseen.

It's a hard scene to fill with other details or dialogue since there's not a positive resolution:

1. If Crystal says yes to marrying him, whether she fulfills this agreement or not, she's given up her power and the one standard she has for herself.

2. If she says she won't, he will drop them.

Of course we condemn her for them being dropped because she stayed with her (unstable) abuser, but I feel like the audience would also have a problem seeing her bend to Beau Willie's demands.

It's a powerful scene and I'm happy that it wasn't tampered with to include a futile conversation.

2. I'm guessing she went downstairs to be close to her children. Or maybe not...at the hospital she seemed distant and paralyzed--I wonder if she stayed in the room while the emergency personnel worked on the children and the police came for Beau Willie.