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Two Questions:

posted 17 years ago by trpdean
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First, why doesn't she just give them the doll once she realizes that they are bad guys intent on finding it? I can understand why she doesn't when she thinks they're the police and it may implicate her husband - but at a certain point, she realizes that they are NOT police, NOT doing a murder investigation - and yet she risks all to avoid giving them the doll (which she proceeds to hide in the garbage can).

Second, why does she stop lighting the matches? Rout is covered in gasoline/ammonia and she'd been holding him at bay, making him tap that cane - then when the refrigerator door is open and there is light, she suddenly stops lighting the threatening matches - how come? What did the light have to do with it? Don't the matches pose just as great a danger to him as they did in the darkness?

[–] novastar_6 17 years ago

You're not too bright, are you? They've killed before to find this doll, and what do you think, that they wouldn't kill again and leave her to report them to the police? What guarantee did she have that nothing would happen to her ONCE they had the doll?

When Roat opened the fridge, she knew he had found the doll.

[–] trpdean 17 years ago

Novastar, why does anyone need a guaranty before doing what they can to save their life? HUH? Are you saying if anyone points a gun at another - since there's no guarantee - they'll never do what's asked? What sense does that make?
Eh, moron?

She stopped lighting matches because she knew he had found the doll? No, no. Don't you even remember the movie? What's wrong with you, novastar?

[–] novastar_6 17 years ago

She was the ONLY person who knew where the doll was, they had to keep her alive until they got it.

[–] jamasian_man 17 years ago

She stopped lighting matches because she tried the door. Then she heard him open the fridge. Meaning he could see. He was somewhere else. She was also on the side of the room with gasoline.

[–] GroovyDoom 16 years ago

Exactly. She couldn't really light him on fire because there was gasoline all over the apartment. She would have burned to death, too.

[–] cherryghostzero 15 years ago

well personally I don't think you're a moron- the whole motivation for her to keep the doll a secret after she knew they weren't the police didn't make sense to me either. and the point that "she knew they'd kill her after she told them where it was" theory doesn't really hold up- if someone sticks you up for your wallet, you don't refuse to give it to them because you think they'll kill you once they get it- you fork it over and hope they leave you alone!

[–] caprice1221 14 years ago

My thoughts on the doll, Susie knew this much, that it was not an ordinarily doll. She did not know it had drugs hiding inside it. As long as the doll was hidden, she had a chance of being alive by offering a deal.

[–] nickapopolis87 14 years ago

She knew Lisa had been killed for it, then Mike is laying dead on her stairs, and she is terrified and alone, in that situation I wouldn't be handing over anything. As soon as she did, she is dead. That is pretty clear.

[–] splattaflix 13 years ago

Don't let novastar bother you trpdean, I had the same questions while watching the movie tonight. I suppose some of the explanations here answer the doll question, but still, it's a stretch.

Future posts such as these will affect you in the future!

[–] learmoak 13 years ago

splattaflix--I enjoyed your signature line.

[–] shepardjessica-1 10 years ago

If she gives them the doll, ROAT WILL KILL HER!