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So she slit her wrist open pretty badly and then just brushed it off?

posted 5 years ago by Mister Babadook (2684)
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She literally takes a sharp pen, stabs it into her wrist and splits her wrist open down her entire wrist, the way alot of people kill themselves going straight down instead of across.

But then she gets stopped by Adrian or his brother, and she goes "Gotcha" and then after that its like it was nothing more than a paper cut, theres no blood at all going down her arm, she falls on the floor and crawls and theres no sign of blood from her wrist, and she doesn't seem to be feeling any pain from it.

Thats a pretty serious injury, and there would be a lot of blood loss, but when we get a glimpse of her wrist during the institution scuffle its not even bleeding.

[–] jackronner (61) 4 years ago

First, it was a clever scene in that most of the audience was expecting her to use the pen against him, then they trick us when she turns it on herself. We realize she's willing to kill herself to deny him his child; how brave. But, NO! She's only feigned it to get him in close enough to attack him after all. He HAD to stop her, so she used it against him. She didn't even have to show him the wound and "blood" as you've complained about. It would've been cuter if we saw her purposely hit the "squirt" lever on the fountain pen to simulate blood, but all she had to do was jab her vein and bend over and scream, and he would still have tried to stop her. All this took place within seconds, too, so the depth and bloodiness of the wound isn't all that important. I would've gone for his jugular, however. More vulnerable and more deadly and area.