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posted 17 years ago by Hezzer_Wezzer
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Towards the end of the movie, when they're all down at the lake and Lars' brother and sister-in-law go off for a walk, we can tell from the way Lars kisses Bianca that her death is imminent.

I expected his brother and sister-in-law to come back and she would be laying down "dead" with him grieving over her.

Instead, however, they come back and he's in the water with her. What do suppose was the point of that?

My first thought was it was a kind of baptism, since he seemed to be a religious person.

Any other ideas?

[–] tricklebrook 17 years ago

I thought maybe it was a baptism, too. But when Lars introduces Bianca to his brother and sister-in-law he tells them that she's a missionary. Presumably, she would have already been baptized.

[–] Shinedou 17 years ago

I was thinking she drowned.

[–] johhnywave 17 years ago

Lars is a murderer and threw her into the lake because he knows she can't swim with her lack of use with her legs for whatever reason it was. Conspiracy!

[–] DC-Tiki 16 years ago

I thought it seemed like he drowned her too. But even if he didn't, he certainly got rid of her when she was no longer required.
After the film was finished I was talking with some friends about this. I thought the film sort of got its messages tangled up a bit. From one perspective Lars learnt to deal with death and Bianca could be a 'metaphor' for his 'illness' so her passing was also his problem passing on. However on the other hand, it absolutely seemed like he killed Bianca when she was starting to get in his way of beginning a relationship with the really real girl (can't remember her name.) What kind of message is that? What if the really real girl no longer serves his purposes in the future? Will he kill her too? Hmmm,...

[–] Anonymous113 15 years ago

That was my thought too. It alarmed me until I remembered Bianca's a doll. ...But what about any future relationship?

[–] KyL_idolz 15 years ago

" However on the other hand, it absolutely seemed like he killed Bianca when she was starting to get in his way of beginning a relationship with the really real girl (can't remember her name.) What kind of message is that? What if the really real girl no longer serves his purposes in the future? Will he kill her too?"

The Doll was more like a channel for him to do things he always wanted to do but couldn't because of his hypersensitivity (like she loved to hug everyone and just as a partner in general). When he met the chick, and slowly got to know her, then he didn't exactly require the doll anymore. The doll was more to compensate for what he didn't have, he wasn't exactly killing Bianca, she got a fever and was dying in his head because he didn't need her anymore.

Do not speak- unless it improves on silence.

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[–] Hezzer_Wezzer 15 years ago

Presumably, she would have already been baptized.

I had that same thought.

But now, I'm thinking that "presumably" hits the nail on the head.

We're talking about Lars. Socially inappropriate and not very knowledgeable. What does he know about missionaries?

Does he know that they would be baptized before going on mission? Maybe not.

So the idea that he was baptizing her still fits, I suppose.

[–] New_malkatrazzz 17 years ago

Yea, I knew that with the lake there she was going to "drown".

[–] travisatisu 17 years ago

I didn't think of it before, but maybe he did pull a Doc Kevorkian on her and end her suffering so to speak. So not only is he deranged, but he's a murderer (she was real, to him after all).

[–] KkellzZ 17 years ago

Maybe Bianca told him that she wanted to feel the water one last time, and she died in his arms.

"Oh, how you make me laugh" ""

[–] Warmfire 17 years ago

Maybe Bianca told him that she wanted to feel the water one last time, and she died in his arms.

I like this explanation best.

[–] LefthandedBabe 16 years ago

Me, too!

What's....this....ruckus?

[–] dave_fla 15 years ago

Its obvious why Lars had to drown Bianca, she told him that Gus had got her pregnant.

[–] zero_1 16 years ago

That's what I thought too.

[–] ajillity81 17 years ago

bianco was dying, so yes, lars ended her suffering.

i'm proud to admit to never have watched a "reality" tv program!

[–] Yellowman88 17 years ago

Where would you like to have your last breath of life? in the hospital?

[–] Warmfire 17 years ago

Well, if I was an anatomically correct mannequin, I might not be drawing any "last breaths" which greatly simplifies the matter.

[–] mammasan 16 years ago

"Where would you like to have your last breath of life? in the hospital?"
In the arms of my husband.

Try Jesus. If you don't like Him, the devil will always take you back.

[–] punk_it_up_alot 17 years ago

HE WAS DROWNING HER.

he knew shed die eventually, so he went ahead and did it.

[–] melissa_coombs 17 years ago

In his own mind, Lars had to kill her, "end her suffering", end his suffering.

[–] annaFTW 16 years ago

Well seeing as she couldn’t die, technically.
I believe she had died and he was putting her in the water to let her go.

“Maybe Bianca told him that she wanted to feel the water one last time, and she died in his arms.”

that was an incredibly sweet explanation.
:D

[–] scratchkitten 16 years ago

Maybe the producers of this movie thought that an ending in the water would be more visually interesting to the viewer than having her die on the land. This is PROBABLY the reason.

But if we are trying to get inside the characters heads, maybe Lars walked away for a second and Bianca fell into the water and drowned.

[–] Screen-7 16 years ago

Did you see the deleted bathtub scene on the DVD?

Was there was a water theme that got screwed-up in editing?

You're right, though, it's an odd, confusing scene. I was wondering if he was going to give her a "burial at sea" or something.

It would have been better if she had just died in his arms.

(still, a wonderful movie.)

[–] Hezzer_Wezzer 16 years ago

You're right, though, it's an odd, confusing scene. I was wondering if he was going to give her a "burial at sea" or something.

It would have been better if she had just died in his arms.

It was confusing and I wish there was some sort of commentary on it or something to give us an idea as to what specifically was going on. Was he granting a request? Was he taking matters into his own hands? It just raises too many questions for me.

I'm not totally opposed to euthenasia, but the justifications for it don't really fit this scenario in my opinion. If he drowned her to end her suffering as some have suggested - it makes him a murderer.

And that certainly taints my opinion of Lars . . Especially when you consider that drowning is a horrendous, tortuous way to die. I've read writings and watched interviews with those who came as close to death from drowning as one could come. The warm, fuzzy feeling that I'd always heard about turned out to be mostly a myth or a least reserved until the person is in total shock and on the brink of death. What they actually experience is the searing, choking, burning, excrutiating pain of water filling their lungs.

So I choose to think it was something entirely different - even if it was just holding her and allowing her to float on top of the water or something sappy like that.

[–] topkapi56 15 years ago

I know I am in the minority, but I hate commentaries on DVD's that try to "explain" what you are watching. Do we really have to have every moment in a film explained to us? Is it even necessary that a moment in a film have only one possible explanation? I think DVD extras have taken away so much of what used to be called "movie magic." Wondering how they did a scene is part of the enjoyment of watching a movie.

[–] Hezzer_Wezzer 15 years ago

Do we really have to have every moment in a film explained to us?

Not every moment, no.

This one I would like an explanation for, however.

[–] Anonymous113 15 years ago

Well, some things like this are important yet confusing. I know I'm confused, did the DVD provide any explanation for it?

And you do know that you don't ever have to click on the commentary if you don't want to, right?

[–] Hezzer_Wezzer 16 years ago

Did you see the deleted bathtub scene on the DVD?

I'm not sure that I did. What happened in that scene?

[–] Rissa1980 16 years ago

He baptized her. She died before he kissed her. The kiss was a goodbye. Someone pointed out he has said she was a missionary. Honestly, I don't think that fact undermines the idea he was baptizing her. You don't have to be baptized to do that. I really believe he baptized her.
If you watch, the brother and sister in law show up and watch him dunk her and bring her up. He only does it once and the way he is holding her is in a caring manner, not a position that one would normally hold someone to drown them. He is cradling her as if to lower her into the water, not hold her down. If we go with the idea that he believed her to be real, the position in which he was holding her (cradling) would have been in effective for drowning. She would have struggled for air and would have easily come up.

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