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My Take on this Movie

posted 15 years ago by HOHNancy
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I just watched it tonight, and it was a pretty good movie. :) I felt bad for Charlotte throughout the film, and when the planter fell on the couple, I was glad because they were terrible to her....they got what's coming to them. :)

As for the ending, I feel it is open to interpretation. That letter is to free her of the 1st murder of her lover (not for the recent murders), and she is probably taken to a mental institution....I feel she did it in self-defense since she knew they would try to hurt her again. Obviously the older man who gave her the note at the end will help her out, and incriminate the evil couple....since he mentioned to the reporter about them.

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[–] HarlowMGM 15 years ago

There are several threads about the ending of the movie in which many viewers express their surprisingly different impressions of the ultimate resolution. I guess that's one of the reasons why the ending isn't so "final" - it can go a number of ways and the director and screenwriter leaves it to the viewer to decide.

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[–] moosefeathers 11 years ago

what are you talking about??????

it was jewel mayhew who murdered john and finally confesses in the letter that she did it? seems final enough for me.

Swing away, Merrill....Merrill, swing away...

[–] HarlowMGM 11 years ago

Note dates and the current appearance of a thread before you respond. This thread is five years old, essential comments have been deleted by their posters, and old threads speculating on the final wrapup now gone from IMDb. No one denies Jewel Mayhew killed John; the "ending" question was would Charlotte be prosecuted for the deaths of Miriam and the doctor, would she spend her life in a mental institution (my take),or would she somehow get released and go back to her home which is absurd but apparently an ending some had hoped for.

[–] brefane 11 years ago

In the end, Charlotte is free of the past that haunted her.

[–] MammothPicturesReturns 11 years ago

The letter will prove that Charlotte didn't kill John Mayhew. The testimony of Mr. Wilkes, the testimony of Charlotte, and the drugs that Dr. Drew was using on Charlotte will show the evil intent of Miriam and Drew toward her. She will probably spend some time in a mental hospital. When she is released, she can't go back to Hollis House to live, because the state will have torn it down to build the highway extension. She will probably buy a house in New Orleans and live there in privacy and peace of mind.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[–] PrometheusTree64 11 years ago

Or take a job as a nanny in London.

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Non-sequiturs are delicious.

[–] brefane 11 years ago

LOL!

[–] Amry0217 10 years ago

There will be a trial concerning the deaths of Dr. Drew and Miriam. Jewel Mayhew's letter will absolve Charlotte of killing John and the state will take into consideration Miriam's and Dr. Drew's conspiracy to drive Charlotte mad, Charlotte will be declared innocent because of insanity of their deaths, sent to the mental institution where she will stay until she has her wits about her and has stopped calling for John. Or maybe she'll always be waiting for John, who knows. Maybe she'll go to a halfway house, but as for going back to the Hollis house, it'll be demolished, and Charlotte knew it, she had one last look at the house from the back window of the car. with the house demolished, there will go her desire for people to keep off her property, no need to shoot at people. I wonder if they had halfway houses back in 1964, maybe she'll buy herself a pretty little cottage in Baton Rouge. Now that she knows her father didn't kill her lover, maybe she'll be a decent citizen.

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