The Nightgown Scene.
What do you think is the purpose of the scene on the roof where Devon strips down to her panties and throws her nightgown to the wind? I have not been able to figure out the meaning of this scene.
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lol It could be taken literally, or: it could mean that she was stripping herself of ties with a family that didn't show as much affection as she needed.
shareI thought she was just being rebellious - deliberately doing something she knew her parents (and neighbours) wouldn't approve of! Have I just imagined this or did she howl like a wolf when she'd done that?
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i think it was both a protest against her parents' skewed values and the confines of their gated-community life, as well as a public exhibition of her "imperfection"--meaning the scar from her heart surgery that her parents wanted to minimize thru plastic surgery...
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I think it symbolized the free spirit in Devon. Both she and Trent were free spirits at heart.
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"Why spend your life making someone else's dreams come true?"
-- Ed Wood, the movie
I agree. He stopped his truck in the middle of the bridge, stripped down, and dove into the river. She climbed onto the roof, tossed her nightgown to the wind, and howled like a wolf. It doesn't have to be steeped in symbolism, it's just a visceral experience of the freedom in nature. If you've never done anything like that, it's quite liberating. To free oneself, even if just for a moment, from the uptight, highly structured suburban society, built on lies and hypocrisy and antagonization and repression - which when faced with such pure and harmless acts, performed by people who *truly* understand freedom and compassion, undoubtedly try to criminalize and demonize such acts and the people who perform them, in an effort to hide their own weaknesses and shortcomings...
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