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I love this movie, but... (SPOILERS)

posted 9 years ago by writerchick89
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Ok, I've watched it 3 times now, and I really like it. I don't think it's boring. I love the feel of it. I love Jenny & the children, the poetry, etc, I think it's beautiful. And horrifying and tragic.

But there are some things I have a problem with or don't understand.

1. Why were ALL the children ghosts? I understand the heart, and one, I think, was the spine, but the eyes & the legs--people can live without those. Unless he did something else to them to kill them?

2. Obviously the dad and Olga had to let the kids grow some before they could do what they did because the kids were all maybe 9 and up, I'd say, from their appearance. But wouldn't Maya have gotten more sick before they were able to use the parts from the kids, while they were waiting for them to grow? And what, they just had someone look after the kids until they got old enough to do the surgeries, and they assumed they were orphans?

3. Since he obviously kept all the children there together, why did he send Jenny away? What was the difference? Unless he wanted to wait till she was older than what the other kids were able to grow to.

4. When he says he impregnated Jenny's mother, I wonder if that meant artificially inseminated. And then again and again? If Peter WAS older than Jenny, then Jenny wouldn't have been the first. Not that it matters, I guess, but just seems odd.

5. If the mother was healthy, which he wanted everyone to be that he took the organs out of or in her case, impregnated over and over, then why did she seem so sick in the end? I wouldn't think he'd have wanted to keep her in bad health and malnourished, unless he did that when he was all done with using her.

There may be more, but those are the ones I can think of. It doesn't take away from my enjoyment of the movie but still bothers me a bit. Also, it was really sad about Maya, but that didn't excuse what they did, and I don't care how desperate you were, only someone who is evil could breed children, their own flesh and blood (right?), and then kill them and have no remorse.

Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.--Stephen King

[–] sfcanneto 8 years ago

I saw this last night and here's my take on it:

1) Agreed, the eye and leg "donors" would still be alive but the spine, lungs and heart would not. Depending on the timing, maybe the "Doctor" just got in the habit off killing the children but you would think he would keep them around just to farm them. Sick as that sounds.

2) There may have been other children before, then he thought to enslave a woman to bear him a continuous supply. The room where the mom was kept had toys, crayon drawings on the wall and other indications that children lived there for a period of time. Making it even more tragic when the doctor took them away from her.

3) Sound reasoning. Only other thing I could think of was the possibility that someone else knew she existed so he had to keep up the charade.

4) He seemed arrogant enough that he would look at raping the mother in such a detached way. As for Peter, I don't know if he was older, definitely bigger so you would think older.

5) I think Jenny was going to take over as the main donor, hopefully not donor mother also. Her mom would have been at the end of her child bearing years and the doctor want to continue the blood line.

Very creepy/disgusting the more I thin about it.

[–] beavertoof 8 years ago

I would say they def were all ghosts..

as for all the details, i don't think you can use too much normal logic with a movie like this.. some of it was supernatural, and some of it just has no real answer other than that is they way they chose to present the story.

[–] lindzilla 8 years ago

Writerchick89,

Is your sig line a quote from the foreword of It? Stephen King giving his advice to his children in the dedication?

Cheers,
Lindzilla

[–] Lauren0308-2012 8 years ago

I realized your post is from awhile ago, but just to clarify number 3...it was answered to in another post and the screenwriter confirmed the response http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3301196/board/nest/242090098

Basically...the reason Jenny was sent away to live with her grandmother and her organs weren't harvested earlier was because the grandmother knew that Jenny existed, whereas the other kids were born after the grandmother thought Jenny's mother had died. So, she didn't know they existed.