Baby monitor


Any ideas? I'm stumped.

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part of a dream

i'm tired of dancing here all by myself

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I think that is probably the best explanation for that. It had not occurred to me while watching the film but this makes good sense.

This is part of the scene with the 'Revenge' painting, no? That would also explain why this painting was strange to her although from the other woman's explanation, she should recognize it.

It makes me wonder if there were other 'dream scenes'.

I think if I were to point at one it would be the one where she phones her daughter. Does she even actually have a daughter?

This is the tricky thing with using dream sequences that are not clearly dreams- you have to question any other scenes as well.

Like the ending, for example.

I choose both of these because in the case of the phone call to the daughter, this happens in the wee hours of the morning so this could have been something she dreamed while sleeping and when she receives Edward's text saying to name a place and time, it is also in the middle of the night. She could have dreamed that as well.

This is interesting. It does not really change my overall opinion of the film because my dislike of it is mainly to do with not liking the characters but it makes me more interested in the mechanics of this particular story. These sorts of things are very tricky to carry off in a film.

In a way, it makes me want to see the film again to sort this out. I wouldn't have to pay to see it again (I have membership at the cinema) but there are some other films out there I want to see so I might have to wait for it to come out on dvd.

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She drops the phone because it reminds here of the baby she aborted. She sees Rays face for a flash, which serves to illustrate how Ray has come to represent her (both Nocturnal Animals and both killers of Ed's/ Mr Hastings kids) in Eds book, at least in HER interpretation of the book.

I do not think it is a dream, but it is all occurring within a haze of distraction caused by her obsession that the book is about her. A distraction that, for example, means she cannot sleep.

She is definitely an unreliable narrator: Any ideas we get about how the book mirrors Eds marriage to Susan are only transmitted because we are getting HER interpretation of the book.




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Oh, it was Ray! I didn't catch that! It was so 'blink and you'll miss it's that maybe I blinked and missed it. Yes, knowing it was him helps interpret things in a way i wasn't leaning towards before. Thanks for the clarification.

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She appeared to be an insomniac (edward's nicknameing her nocturnal animal). The book triggered a severe episode of it, and after a long period of sleep deprivation, combined with her paranoia over the story, there's no wonder she was hallucinating.

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