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SPOILERS-Who is Trapped in THE TRAP? - Just a thought.

posted 14 years ago by gravedigger-1
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So...Who is really trapped in The Trap? Eve, survivor of a violent crime,orphaned, unable to communicate, sold to and kidnapped by Jean La Bête, definitely appears to be trapped. While, Jean La Bête who, also orphaned at an early age, somehow is trapped into social mores-To be complete, for him, is to have a wife, children and home and provide food and shelter. Cavemanlike, as it seems, he is hellbent (or trapped) in a sense of companionshp that he feels is his destiny and will complete him. As she makes her escape near the end of the film, Eve is truly independent and fears the trap that comes with the union. As Le Bete pleads to Eve on the riverbed he is not ashamed to want these things.

When she returns to him in the end - It's so cool, because she didn't have to return to "the union". After being saved by the tribe (people she feared), losing the child, returning to the trader and his nagging wife, whining daughter and the forgiving-fiance with the Elvis hair-I think it becomes apparent to Eve that traps are what you make them and even in the most confined, restricted lifestyles (La Bête, fur coats, deer meat, and babies one after another)one may have the free-est life with the right companionship.

I like movies and The Trap is one of my favorites. I don't care for many remakes - Leave well-enough-alone. It a great story. But I would be interested to see what the 21st century could add to the storyline. I think Eve would have something to say.

[–] rjd0309 14 years ago

I never thought of the fact that Eve was rescued by the people she feared (Indians). Good comment.

I kept hoping that Eve would finally overcome her trauma-induced muteness, and say something. But now I'm okay with it. Eve doesn't need to talk.

It's one of my favorite movies, too. I'm not sure if a 21st-century remake would be a good idea or not. Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham had great chemistry. It would be hard to duplicate.

[–] blackkatdemon 13 years ago

Agreed with Rjd0309 Eve see's the Indian's in town freaks out, same 2 in the cabin, freezes in fear, only one she didn't fear was the dead one in the den like house.

The ones that ended up saving her, she never knew cause she was out cold.

Few question's
I wonder if Eve ever talked in her sleep?
I still am wondering why did she run, escape, and all?
She could have left Reed for dead, and made a break for it never looking back.
Still wondering how they'd get hitched when there was no preacher in the woods? Go back down the river?
Did Reed really play the hermonica?

I liked this movie, glad they don't remake it. They could never catch the screen presents of the 2 actors in this movie. Thought the native americans were protrade badly, broken english, names, but this is what they did back then.

I always cheer for the bad guy!

[–] rebkad 11 years ago

I still am wondering why did she run, escape, and all?

Perhaps she felt she really loved the shopkeeper guy? I don't think Eve would be the sort to coldly kill someone and run off into the wilderness like that - I think when she returns and everyone assumes that is what happened, it gives her second thoughts. There is no indication of how long it was before Jean 'proposed' and her making a run for it, so she might have realized she was pregnant, although I think she probably didn't ~~know~~, just realized this would be her for life, eventually having lots of kids and dying out there in the mountains. She does feel 'trapped' at this point, re op, but in a way everyone is trapped in some way - Jean lost his parents too, he was cared for by Indians but because he isn't an Indian, he isn't living with them it would seem, so he is trapped between 2 worlds, as are Eve's employers who aren't rich enough to move to San Francisco but not poor enough to have friends in the settlement.