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Did Michael Rape Her At The End?


Thats what I got from watching this film. The way he carries her away and looks at her in their final shot... He wasn't taking her to a hospital.

Putting his tooth brush in her glass in the bathroom I thought was kinda suggestive of a sexual act. I thought he was more interested in her than her sister right from the start of my first viewing of this film.

Makes me feel really sad for her. Then right after him carrying her away you see the photograph... such a powerful ending to a film.

Thoughts?

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The ticking of the clock happens when she is hallucinating that she's being raped. The ticking starts at the end when Michael looks into her eyes and walks away with her. Seems like the clock was signifying that he was going to rape her. Also he flirts with her earlier in the movie so he was definitely attracted to her.

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That's so amazingly far fetched you deserve an award. Putting your toothbrush into somebody's bathroomglass is -NOT- by any means a "suggestive sexual act". You'd have to do it grinning at somebody's face licking your lips to actually turn this sexual. In all other cases it is: "Putting your toothbrush into somebody else's bathroomglass. Likely because you don't even really know it's theirs, or that they actually would care."

She might have been raped. A long time before, shortly before or never. By Michael, by her father, by whomever. The catatonic scene at the end however was NOT a rape scene.

Altogether psychosis isn't something you can "catch" only because of a bad incident. Anybody can just get it under stress, and if it hits you, you need attention and help. Not somebody looking for a scapegoat.

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I agree this question is sooo farfetched! I just watched this for the first time. If Michael raped her at the end where would he do it with all of those gawkers standing around? In the bathroom with the door locked? Plus, he'd only have a few minutes to do it before the police arrived. Preposterous theory imho. p.s. My take as well as most others was she was molested/raped by her father (see photo at end). She was never raped in the apartment. That was all part of her slowly developing psychosis.

Good Movie altho strange TCM would show it on Halloween. It's way too sad and serious to be considered a 'Scary' Movie. I don't think 'Horror' was what Polanski was going for. I also thought it kind of ironic considering some of the movies themes and Polanski's own problems over the years. I also thought from the start of the movie how much Deneuve looked like Sharon Tate in the face. At least to me she did!

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Yes. He carried her a few rooms away and raped her right there at the crime scene with a dozen tenants milling around. A good time was had by all. Then the police came, and since they were male, they also raped her. They then invited the buskers up to take their turn.

Seriously, he's in her apartment. Where is he going to bring her to rape her? He doesn't have an apartment of his own in the building. Either he does it right there at the crime scene or he throws her in his car. Either way, that's a bit absurd.

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That´s what happened. And then the female tenants whipped out their strap-on dildos and raped her all over again. It was a tough day for Carol.



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i think may be becoz at the beginning he felt inferior to her , so "May be" he was happy to see her broken in some way at last

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I didn't think he would do it with the tenants in the other room.

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No, I thought he was acting kind of "heroically." Earlier in the film he expresses how he thinks Carol needs to see a doctor and that she has something a bit wrong with her. When he sees what happened when he took her sister away and she was left by herself I think he felt some great sympathy for her, possibly some guilt as well.

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I re-watched the ending now with good resolution and that he would rape her didn't cross my mind at all, just couldn't see it... Perhaps people look at it different.

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The biggest question I had throughout the film was: What happened to Carol to make her so morose and depressed? I think he raped her, but not at the end, there's too many people around, not to mention two bodies, but he did before the start of the film.

She hates his belongings touching hers; his toothbrush in her cup? That seems like some pretty heavy symbolism right there. Also she throws up when she smells his dirty vest.

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Michael looked at her in a lecherous way at the end, but he obviously doesn’t rape her with hoards of bystanders around and the police on their way.

I think the point was that even her saviour wants a piece of her, that she is trapped in a permanent hell of being unbearably attractive to men, and possibly wanting sex, but physically repulsed by the act (probably due to childhood sexual molestation).

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