'the lady and SISTER are outside'
At some point the little girl says this, after seeing the woman and dog girl walking outside. Sister? was dog girl part of the family?
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Yes! Because Chris told Peg right before he pushed her "You and your sisters!" I was thrown off by that line at first but quickly realized the dog girl was their sister sometime before turning crazy.
Welcome to the island of misfit toys.
When Chris and Belle are arguing about her leaving him, he says the word "anophthalia" which means the absence of one or both eyes. Notice dog girl only has one eye and the little girl refers to her as "sister".
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Did anyone else get the sense that the one-eyed sister was the result of incest? And if so, incest between whom? There were all of the quick flashes during the climax (ending with the youngest daughter and the mixer thing). I think the director was trying to tell us something, but damned if I could parse it. Also, I think The Woman going after the mother first before going after the son/father, that's supposed to be something worth noting? Or not?
I think she went after the mom first mainly because she was the first one she ran into.
shareI think it is because the mother didn't help the woman in the shed when the mother had the board. She could have hit the father in the head and unchained the woman, but she chose to help the father instead.
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That's how I took it.
Mom was the enabler of ALL Dad did. Hard to blame her much, but yes, a little.
All I clearly remember is in the scene where the mother is telling him that she is leaving, he states that Anophthalmia is her fault (and I guess that's just what they named her because they kept screaming it at her). Causes of this can be genetic, but can be caused by external influences, like vitamin deficiencies, viral infections during pregnancy, or substance abuse. My guess would be that the mother is a former junkie whom the father took it upon himself to "save." That would fit right in with how he wanted to civilize the woman. I'm sure the book would go into more detail about it, but I haven't read it (yet) and that's just the overall sense I got from the movie.
shareHolly *beep* that's a great guess! Makes so much sense.
shareThe woman was theirs, it mentions in the book from the mom's POV how difficult or simple each child was to breastfeed as a baby and the mom notes that the only one worse than the little girl, Darlin', was "the other one..the one they didn't speak of." Sounds like she was the father's too.
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