Why does Kathy Bates character beat up the eldest boy Shane for mouting off @ Christmas but lets one of the younger boys, Murray, off the hook and actually tells him it's OK he set the house on fire?
Because she realized the pain she had been inflicting on Shayne, not just physically but emotionally, when he was cleaning her wounds and she told him not to ever beat a woman, not to beat anybody because it hurts. And he said, I know. She realized how badly she had treated him. Murray didn't intentionally set the house on fire, it was an incredibly stupid accident. I actually figured the outhouse would explode.
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when I 1st saw it I said the same thing.but now I think about it -it was a very careless mistake-no 1 was hurt so I don't think he should have got a beating
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totally irrelevant, but one of the kids fell off the roof and got a nail in their back..that's the little of what i can remember of the film. i really wan tot watch it again. but freaky stuff!
I wish they taught shopping in school; lets wear make up so the boys will like us
What I wanna know is why she beat him when he had a perfectly legit reason for complaining. The little brat--who was great in A Perfect World :)--scribbled all over his textbook for class and didn't even KNOW what he did with his homework! The mother should laid the little one out instead to teach him some respect for other people's things.
I spent my entire childhood growing up. What a waste.
A lot of the time I think she was beating Shane because he reminded her so mcuh of her husband and she was taking a lot out on him.
FYI, Murray is the one who fell from the roof AND the one who set the fire.
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