Question. She has a fake leg but if I'm not mistaken when she was massaged by her swimming instructor, she had real legs! But she walks like a cripple since childhood. Am I making a mistake or was it a blunder? When did exactly she lose her leg? And how?
How and when Manech going to lose his amnesia? Will they end up together? Will he learn to love her again?
JeSkuNk
She doesn't have a fake leg, she has polio.
Relax little girl. I'll have the pancakes and you can have my sandwich, ok?
Er, ah, she didn't have a fake leg, she'd gotten polio as a child (a common disease at the time). Polio affects muscles (it may affect the associated nerves too, I don't know all the details), but a friend of mine who had had polio as a child had shriveled muscles and braces on both his legs. If you get it early enough, you can minimize the consequences by lots of exercise and a lot of therapy. There's no loss of limbs involved.
They must have gotten to the disease early enough to at least have kept the legs from shriveling, because her legs certainly were not that, and no braces. Not impossible, there's at least one instance that I've heard of where the woman became a champion runner.
Re Manech losing his amnesia, there's a whole other thread here with many people weighing in on this. The upshot of the thread was that he may never lose his amnesia - we don't know. However, he says to her in that last scene things that he said to her when they first met (e.g., "Does it hurt?"), so the implication is that they'll be starting over from scratch. His saying those things implies that he's essentially the same person, even though he has amnesia - thus implying that they'll have the same sweet relationship as before.
Someone also said that in the original book, it was clear that he'd keep the amnesia, but that of course they'd be in love and stay together.
Thanks again! Everyone....
JeSkuNk
Skunk, spell it with me, please:
S*P*O*I*L*E*R
Next time, please? Thank you.