Did anyone get the feeling the brother may have been murdered by Martha? Maybe with the help of the slave woman, whom he had also wronged? They just said "he's gone."
shareGood observation! In retrospect, that definitely could have happened.
shareIn flash back was it the brother who attacked Hallie, the slave woman? He must have been a real crumb. I think Martha did enjoy her brother. Hey was that Geraldine Page as a young Martha?
shareOh, definitely. I get the feeling Martha killed him probably because he was, for lack of a better term, unfaithful to her.
Kind of makes me wish I could find a copy of the book to read to see if it goes into more detail about certain things in the film.
At any rate, you have to figure by the end of the movie that Eastwood's character is going to be occupying a space next to the brother.