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Stupid Questions...

posted 18 years ago by tra1n_n_va1n
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Or not... how is it one has sex with a ghost? Or touches them at all for that matter? David wasn't just imagining touching Christina as they actually show him use her back to rest the book on when he autographs it. I've never read/seen/whatever where the living had that sort of contact with a "ghost", even in fiction... so I'm confused.

Also, Christina said her mother died when she was only 14, and the kids would have died soon thereafter... Christina is obviously not 14 in the film, so did the ghosts "age"?

And now my dumbest question of all- when David and Christina are riding horses together, is the horse she on real? Is there a real breathing, living horse trotting along next to David's without a rider? Or would that be a "ghost-horse" as well?
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[–] FeelGoodHit-OfTheSummer 18 years ago

Well one films rules about ghosts is different from anothers. In thsi film they are able to look and feel real.

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[–] cgm2812 17 years ago

The "secret" was based on lies! These "ghosts" were in fact evil, so lying about what transpired in that mansion would only come naturally...especially if they were the cause (i.e., incest causing mother to commit suicide @ the lake, nanny killing them out of revenge).

[–] vicky_lc2001-1 16 years ago

It's a bit confusing isn't it? But I guess this movie has a different set of rules regarding ghosts & we just have to accept it w/in this context.

About Christina's age though, I do think the mom died when she was 14 & Christina & her brothers died 2 years earlier (1923) when she was 16 (of course, she looks older than that, perhaps 18?). When David finds their gravestones, you'll see their ages;

Robert: b.1887-1923
Simon: b. 1896-1923
Christina: b.1907-1923

I hadn't realized that they had such a huge age gap; Robert (the eldest) was 38, Simon 29, & Christina 16. I don't think it was intended that the ghosts aged 2 years after by 1925.

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[–] wwayneross 16 years ago

I think when he stepped off the train he entered another dimension (like the hotel room in 1408). if you notice, there were no other living people in that entire village except Nanny Tess. Even the fortune teller was a spirit. The false world was created and held together by the power of the ghosts.

[–] yeoffthecat 15 years ago

Then way was she able to enter the world of the living in the end by following him and his grlfriend?

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[–] JR541 15 years ago

Not everything is supposed to have an answer. This is a film that shows that there are such things as ghosts but in reality we don't know that they really exist.

There are no set rules for a film like this and that being the case then why she was able to follow him is not necessarily explainable nor does it have to be.

Being that this is a fantasy movie then anything the film writer or director wants to depict is possible.

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