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SPOILER AHEAD Question about scene at the lake

posted 11 years ago by fentress
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MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD!

I love this movie, but one brief scene that mystifies me is the last scene at the lake. This is the last scene in which we see Bianca "alive". Actually, it's the last scene we see her at all. Gus and Karin are off in the distance and notice Lars and Bianca in the water. It's clear there's trouble.

My question is: why are they in the water? Did Lars think that some cold water might revive her somehow? Is Bianca supposed to have "drowned"? But why would they try to wade or swim when it was winter time? I'm just wondering.

[–] kikidi 11 years ago

Maybe he drowned her to put her out of her misery?

[–] PeterMarkoff 11 years ago

I think the kiss was last goodbye before her death, don't really think she drowned, I understood the lake scene as 1) try to revive her or 2) some religious goodbye to clean her body in lake water, something like baptizing.

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[–] fentress 11 years ago

Yeah, I definitely agree the kiss and his tears were a last goodbye. He knew she was going to "die". I hadn't thought of your possibility #2, a purification ritual. Interesting idea.

[–] Sheldom 11 years ago

ya, this answer would make perfect sense and also ties in with the films religious undertone.

[–] OctoberFox 11 years ago

I was thinking it was ceremonial. When tied to the religious themes it seems more so, but I don't quite mean in that way. Lars was talking to Gus about rites of passages, and "becoming an adult", then mentioned things like survival and such before bringing up sex. To me this suggests that the water part was part of his "rite of passage", as was Bianca, her illness, and his eventually kissing her goodbye and letting her go.

[–] fentress 11 years ago

Could be. Someone else mentioned it could be a religious ritual. I hadn't thought of the tie-in to Lars earlier asking about rites of passage. Good call.

[–] PotassiumMan 11 years ago

Unclear. We all have to remember that Lars makes a decision some point in the film that Bianca is going to die. Whether he improvised or simply worked out some sort of plan cannot be known. Had I been the filmmaker, I would have put a lot more work into Lars' final act of discarding Bianca. As it was, it seemed so perfunctory after making everyone in the film go through that.

[–] ola11 11 years ago

I thought because she's dying and gonna die, don't wanna see her in pain and better to let her go to release the pain, or she ask him to do it and drown in lake, remind me to that film Amour.

[–] IMDB_Vits 11 years ago

It wasn't a plan. He got used to interacting with other people so his subconcious decided that he didn't need the delusion anymore.