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Question possible early spoilers

posted 11 years ago by jbpiff-307-259479
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Is it possible that Thomas killed the woman in the barn? The one Lore and her sibilings found. It appeared she'd been raped and murdered. Then Lore went looking for her brother and found Thomas upstairs. I was wondering, because when he saw her that night at the school, he shoved her into the wall, like he was going to attempt to rape her. Considering what they found out about Thomas in the end, that particular scene came back too me. The thought was just a little disturbing, to say the very least. I was just curious what everyone else thought.

[–] lostinshalott 11 years ago

I sorta thought he was just hiding out there and that he felt some sort of connection with Lore. Also I think he was def. a prisoner of a camp as he had the number on his wrist it might be that he just wasn't a jew as there were other people that were put in camps and maybe his story about stealing was true.

[–] suchalovelylady 11 years ago

I don't think we're supposed to connect Thomas with a rape. There is the scene where Lore places his hand up her skirt, pushes him away in disgust (because he is Jewish) and then attempts to try to get him to do it again. Thomas was obviously too hurt and too proud to continue on after she made him feel unwanted. He was at no point trying to exert dominance or power over her through sex.

I think the first time they met, he tries to drunkenly and awkwardly kiss Lore and ends up scaring her off. He had a bit of a crush on her from the start and that's why he helped her family.

His character was a bit of a mystery (lying about his identity and murdering a man without a trace of guilt), but that much was clear to my interpretation.

[–] uhhmike 11 years ago

i thought his main reason of helping them was to use their young child as a means to get food (this is what Lore implied at one point in the film).

i thought he was a deeply flawed character and had his good and bad things abt him, and this was a bad thing - he was helping them to help himself.

[–] PoppyTransfusion 11 years ago

this was a bad thing - he was helping them to help himself.

Was this a bad thing? He was helping them and not just exploiting them as the woman at the farm with the dyed black clothes, or the man with the boat, would have been doing. The situation they were all in meant mutual help was of necessity.

Away with the manners of withered virgins

[–] thivai-1 8 years ago

Lore was wrong with her assumption. Did she get any food because she had a baby with her at any point? Well, one egg, yes, but the load of food Thomas brought while Lore was sick? No. Thomas was always munching on something when they met before they joined. As far as I know, Jews as survivors of the holocaust were treated preferably by the Americans and I think that is where he got all the food. He was kind enough to share it and he cared for the children probably parts because he fancied Lore, partly because he felt sorry for them.

[–] Xyzzy 11 years ago

I thought it was a possibility, otherwise, why show it? I think he initially looked to rape Lore, too, but she might have seemed more worthwhile to him than the older woman.

Weirdly, it may have been a desire to prove himself to her that kept him from behaving much worse.
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