Why did Audrey lie about the money/ 'papers' - Broken English (2008) Discussion

[–] shlee18 17 years ago

I think she might have concealed it because Audrey mentions to Nora on their way to France that the people they are delivering the packages to know her parents. She also may have kept it quiet because she knew that it would only (logically) lead to more questions from Nora, when Audrey clearly didn't want to talk about the delivery, or the man she met. Since Audrey goes right from that conversation about the money/papers into the bathroom and cries while putting her wedding ring back on, one can assume that she cheated on her husband with the mysterious French man she delivered the money to. Making her story uninteresting might make it easier to pretend the whole thing never happened.

These are just my theories, but I was thinking about the same thing after I saw the film a second time.

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[–] herfantasyisrudy 17 years ago

I don't think she necessarily needs to have cheated for her to have cried in the bathroom. Even just the thought of cheating, or the subconscious act of her own that she picked on when she had not had her ring on. Maybe I'm just naive, though.

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[–] SheBear 17 years ago

I was a bit confused about Audrey's character in general and I didn't really get what was going on with the delivery and the Frenchman.

"I want him to lose his mind, his breath and his bladder control"

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[–] Devil_In_A_New_Dress 17 years ago

I assumed she was in on it. I think it can be implied that Aubrey had stuck a balloon of cocaine up her butt before getting on the flight, then delivered to the Frenchamn's house, only to see the irony that she had been carrying the money he was going to give her for the cocaine anyway. When she gets back to the hotel and she cries you can tell it's out of pain from her butt which is still hurting from having a balloon of cocaine shoved up it for 20 hours.

Oh yeah, and the story with Parker and that French guy was kind of nice.

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[–] SheBear 17 years ago

LOL, are you serious? Well I guess I really missed something.

"I'm aroused and confused."

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[–] millerlubi 17 years ago

I'm pretty sure steddy cam is joking.....

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[–] lauraly 17 years ago

Here is the thing...no one wants to recognise that the people "closest" to us (as in best friends) would lie to us or screw us over. But it happens. She lied, people. And the message is.. we are all alone out here. On our own.

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[–] soybean1895 17 years ago

In the car going to the airport, Nora asks Audrey "Is this safe?" meaning is what they are doing (the courier service) legit. To reassure Nora, Audrey says that it is, that it's not drugs and that they got this job from Audrey's family friends.

The box full of currency is meant to be somewhat "shady". There is no limit to the amount of currency you can bring on your person or luggage into France, but anything over 7,600 Euros you must file a report with the French government. I took this to mean that the businessman just didn't want to bother with it, he didn't want a paper trail, or that this money came from something not so legit.

I just understood Audrey's lie as her not wanting to worry Nora, and not wanting to get into what happened at lunch with the businessman.

(I don't think Audrey slept with the businessman; although she comes close to it she immediately asks to borrow his phone to call her friend instead. When she goes into the bathroom I interpreted that as her reacting to how close she came to cheating on her husband and realizing how bad a state her marriage was in. But that's just my opinion.)

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[–] dosgatosazules 12 years ago

"(I don't think Audrey slept with the businessman; although she comes close to it she immediately asks to borrow his phone to call her friend instead. When she goes into the bathroom I interpreted that as her reacting to how close she came to cheating on her husband and realizing how bad a state her marriage was in. But that's just my opinion.)"

Yeah, except that when she's having lunch with him it's no later than 5 p.m. given the length of the shadows we see. (Looks more like early afternoon, but I won't quibble.) And then when she gets back to the hotel it's full dark; that's a transition time of at least 3 hours. Even to go from one end of Paris to the other wouldn't take that long. I think that the clear leap from bright day to late night is our clue (plus her staring at herself in the mirror almost accusedly, her crying, her putting her ring back on, her wish to say nothing to her friend) are all clues that she slept with him.

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[–] lamont-hard 12 years ago

If she would have slept with him they would have implied it more. There would have been no reason to conceal it. She took off her ring because she wanted to be free for the afternoon. She was not looking for sex but validation. She was sucked into what her friend was doing. She could have did something else in it was dark when she returned. She got what she came to Pris for besides the money she delivered. I did not understand the thing with the money.

Or

Maybe we are all looking at this the wrong way. Maybe her husband was forcing her to do something she did not want to do. Or maybe she was doing something her husband did not approve of in being a courier.

It could have been many things as they did not go into it enough to give us a clear cut point to hang our hats on.

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[–] anikor 12 years ago

The Frenchman asked her: "Are you good at keeping secrets?"

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[–] FranceGirl 12 years ago

IMO: Audrey lied about it just because she feels guilty about what took place afterwards. She wants to downplay the whole afternoon/evening. I do think she slept with the guy because of how much time passed between the time she called Nora and the time she returned to the hotel room. With regards to the money - I think an earlier poster said it best - - the guy did not want a paper trail of bringing a lot of currency into France.

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[–] GuyOnTheLeft 11 years ago

Agree, she slept with him. I liked the subtlety.

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