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Do we ever find out what happened to the mother?


From what I remember, the mother is making dinner at the beginning of the movie. We don't see here again. I guess it can be argued that she was not important to the movie. Just curious.

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Good question. Anyone?

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Or that dad killed her before setting out with the children, who he intended killing before himself.

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No matter.
Try again, fail again.
Fail better.

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Nah, men who kill their children and themselves do so because either the wife has been unfaithful or is leaving him and taking the kids. Either way the wife is invariably left alive to endure her "punishment".

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