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Metal NOT medal

posted 4 years ago by ColumboKate (5780)
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Lots of posts here are referring to her looking for the medal at the end, and demanding the medal back from Leroy.

She was saying metal, not medal. The metal was on the heals of her shoes. This wouldn't burn in an incinerator so needed to be disposed of separately because they had claude's blood on them.

[–] Moonglum9 (11338) 4 years ago

Heels, NOT heals! BAZINGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[–] ColumboKate (5780) 4 years ago

Ahhhh! Lockdown is making me stupid!

[–] Moonglum9 (11338) 4 years ago

I don't have that excuse. I was stupid long before lockdown.

[–] TimMC (9143) 4 years ago

Would this help??????

Metallic
Medallion

[–] ColumboKate (5780) 4 years ago

In the film there is a medal that the girl stole, and metal on the heels of her shoes - both important to the story. Reading the other posts there is confusion about what went where 🤷‍♀️.

[–] Ant1238 (927) 4 years ago

I don't think this is correct--I just watched, and near the end, she asks her mother what happened to the medal, and she says she dropped it in the lake. She definitely meant the medal that she took from the boy she murdered, not the metal from her shoes.

[–] Ant1238 (927) 4 years ago

That's why she goes out to the dock in the end--to retrieve "her" medal. Why would she go out there to get the metal from her shoes? Ha.