The Baby - The Woman (2011) Discussion

[–] BrianCTyler 12 years ago

I never thought about that, she seemed to be taking care of it because I believe I read somewhere that she 'adopted' the baby at the end of the film "Offspring" from which this is spun-off from.

I'm assuming the child must have died while the woman was held captive, since it had no one to care for him/her. Not a pleasant thought, but that's what is most likely.

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[–] LaraCroftLegacy 12 years ago

Thank you for answering my question and so I guest need to watch offspring to understand the story?

will say lease the woman was easy to watch unlike Bunnyman

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[–] BrianCTyler 12 years ago

I haven't seen Offspring either, I only checked out THE WOMAN because I'm a huge Lucky McKee fan.

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[–] sotoomuch 12 years ago

Darkalessa...good of you to remember the baby. I thought about that too because I already knew when I started watching it, she was going to be abducted and imprisoned. So, I was immediately thinking, "Oh no!!! The woman is having a baby!?" She is shown seconds into the movie rubbing her growing belly, then again later. In between, they show her hunting prey. But, then they show her off to the left of the screen laying in pain. Shortly thereafter, a wolf is shown hanging out
with the woman and her baby being very attentive (in a loving way) to the baby. So my thought is that the wolf may have taken over care once mom was gone.

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[–] originaltbyrd 12 years ago

my thought was that the baby was the Woman, raised by a wolf, like remus and romulus.

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[–] KutWrite (1220) 5 years ago

I took it as a flashback of her own infancy, being licked and cared for by a she-wolf.

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[–] fairymagic 7 years ago

She was rubbing her belly with water because she was wounded

I'm not sure what the baby was supposed to symbolise (it may well have been hers) but when she's rubbing her belly you can clearly she has cut that she's cleaning with the water

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[–] vpalme2 12 years ago

I had assumed that the wolf had killed the baby ( there was that short scene of the Woman crawling into the cave, snarling and lunging into the cave, along with some off camera noises) and then the Woman killed the wolf.

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[–] DilvishW 12 years ago

The baby in the beginning was part of the woman's dream sequence. It appears after she lays down and falls asleep and is meant to just briefly hint back to her desire for a baby. It's a bit vague, but I guess it's McKee's way of getting you some of the more important info from "The Offspring" to save you from ever having to watch that abomination.

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[–] Quiet-Riot 12 years ago

I thought the baby was her. As a baby it looked like she had blood on her fingers and the wolf comes along and cleans it, implying she will take care of her.

Which then later connects with at the end when the woman gives her bloody finger to that little girl who puts it in her mouth, forming that bond and the woman takes er away to care for her.

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[–] chilone 11 years ago

I thought the baby was the little cannibal freakazoid that ate the teacher. I figured Chris must have captured it previously. At the end "mom" gives him a bite of the heart and they all go wandering off into the woods like a big, happy, reunited family.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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[–] DaliParton 11 years ago

The freakazoid was the family's first daughter. Before he beat up his wife, the father was going on about how Anophthalmia was her shame - the freakazoid had no eyes. Then later at the end, the little girl called the freakazoid "sister."

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[–] guatoman-102-889189 11 years ago

I thought the baby was a flashback of her when she was just a child... must have misunderstood

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[–] first-things-first 10 years ago

I thought that too. I thought the cannibals had kidnapped a baby to love with them.

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[–] whitespirit26 8 years ago

The baby was hers, she'd tamed the wolf near it. But she killed another wolf that threatened her. The baby may have died from natural causes, but the book said the woman gave birth at some point in her life too.

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[–] first-things-first 8 years ago

Thanks!

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