Great film but....


First of all, the acting is great, the script is hilarious, the directing is also very nice. This is a very unique film. I have never seen anything like this done before, where the surreal shots (like the love scene, the scene right before the mother dies, when Teresa is with leanard in the cafe, when she she Jesus, etc) are so magnificently done and embraced by the characters. However, I didn't get the ending, as well as the whole part with Catharine giving birth to a chicken. Was that just her imagination? Or was it really a chicken, or does reality not matter? Actually, this film is very imaginitive, and maybe it's okay that I didn't get it. Whatever. It's just plain trippy.

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The mother was afraid she'd give birth to a chicken, because she saw her husband slaughter a turkey, and her mother-in-law insisted that her seeing the slaughter would "mark" the child (a VERY common Italian old school thought). She did miscarry the child, the child not being completely formed did in fact look like some weird bird. The ending, where her father suddenly believes a miracle has occured was very touching, despite the controversal content of the film.

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The ending is meant to be ambiguous. Was Teresa a saint causing a miracle, as her father came to believe, or was she schizophrenic and the flowers were a coincidence, as her mother believed?

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the ending was perfect

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this movie sucks ballz.

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