the ending i saw was when she drew the 2 heads
what i thought was:
when she was drawing the camera showed us the picture of her and the other lady, then the camera turned away, after they leave the camera goes back and then there are 2 heads. I thought that Charlie drew his face on her after they left.
HELP im confused!
She's schizo like papa.
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It was multiple personality disorder, not schizophrenia.
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yet not explaination from you bingedrinker lol...
shareCould be trauma from the events, that may have given her a fear that she may turn out like her father.
What I do know is that MPD takes time to develop, whereas the events of the film do not appear to take more than a year, from the "Suicide" to Emily's adoption. Everything we've learnt about mental disorders is that they take a long time, longer than a year, to develop.
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Exactly, she is suffering from trauma.
A few days ago, I saw this film on TMN Encore. The ending they showed was different. Famka is putting Dakota to bed. We assume she has become her guardian; just like in the theatrical ending. She ask her to have the door open, and she tells her "You know I can't do that." She leaves her room and it pans out to reveal she is in a psychiatric hospital. Famka walks down the hall as crédits role.
This tells us she was so traumatised, she grew up in a loony bin!
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Basically, Di Niro is Charlie. He suffers split personality disoder meaning sometimes he believes he is a totally different person. He tells Emily that he's Charlie and maybe she thought that he was just playing. Katherine adopts Emily, which is nice but the picture suggests that she too has split personality disorder and believes she's two different people.
shareDear fellow,
I had the impression that when the little girl was drawing her right hand hid the second head of her picture. That' why we all saw it only when she left the room. I guess that means that the little girl was developing a second personality as her dad. What do you think of my hypotesis?
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I too was confued with the ending when I saw this movie. I guess they were saying that the little girl had a split personality like her Dad, but I didn't know for sure what it meant.
I actually like the alternitive endings better.
I just saw this movie on TV tonight. The ending with the two heads on the drawing did seem a bit confusing. It might have meant that she was also schizo like her dad. Or it could have been a representation of her imaginary friend who helped her deal with the bizarre behavior that she experienced with her father.
For the scene when Robert DeNiro's character goes to the bathroom and finds it lit with candles and the red smeared words on the wall that wrote out "You let her die". He accused Dakota's character of staging the scene. I think the assumption would have been that Robert's other personality had staged the scene. But what if it was Dakota's other personality that did it instead? That would explain the two headed drawing at the end of the movie.
I preferred the alternative ending when she was inside a hospital.
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I think the double head was supposed to indicate she would become just like her dad.
I noticed she didn't seem particularly upset at things like the cat being killed (was happily eating breakfast the next morning), and she put that live bug on the hook instead of using the bait, so I think she had that streak in her like dad and the trauma of her mum dying brought it out.
Indeed: Like father, like daughter. I much preferred that ending to any of the alternates.
shareDef. Why are people confused by this. He had hinted at having a horrible childhood himself, so for him, it was probably a combo of a genetic predisposition to (dissociative identity disorder) DID and thus had some kind of trauma(s) as a kid that set his off. So, she's like her dad, and was definitely traumatized enough by the end of the movie to bring it on, lol. So her DID-ness got triggered as well, and yes the double head suggests she has an alternate personality now too. And of course, seeing how it went with the dad, her other alternate could eventually be violent.
Someone asked, why was she aware of her alternate and not him. I don't know what was up with him, but people with DID can be aware of their alternate personalities.
I don't know that DID is fully explained by science in real life, but the way the movie played out, seemed to subscribe to the belief that it is combination of both genetic vulnerability factors and environmental traumas setting it in motion.
It couldn't have been the case of her own split personality developing, because people with Dissociative Identity Disorder are not aware of the other personality. Her father wasn't, so how could she be?
shareYeah, exactly. But still, I'm pretty sure it's what the movie was trying to say though (that she does have a split personality disorder), and that it's simply a goof.
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Strange the ending I saw just on TV was Emily ended up in a mental hospital.
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