What was wrong with Peggy?
Why was she acting weird all the time, why did she stop speaking to her father, why did she refuse to talk to uncle Russ, what was her problem?
shareWhy was she acting weird all the time, why did she stop speaking to her father, why did she refuse to talk to uncle Russ, what was her problem?
shareReally?
I think she had trouble dealing with the fact that she was surrounded by killers.
Huh, what do you mean, her father showed her only love...
shareShe knew her dad was into shady shit. She saw him beat that man outside of the grocery store. Then when Hoffa disappeared she knew he was involved. She was fond of Hoffa.
Are you being serious when you say "showed her only love"?
He beat that guy because he shoved her, she should have been grateful. Anyway, he probably should have explained to her what he is doing, from an early age: "Daddy is killing some very bad people, because otherwise they will kill us, OK pumpkin?"...
shareBut that wasn't the case. He was a contract killer. He was doing it for money, not to protect his family. Are you just trolling?
shareHe protected his Mafia family, it was just as important as his real family, once you are in it, you can't just leave it otherwise you real family will suffer.
shareI suppose that is true, but he made the decision to go down that road and his daughter didn't approve.
shareHe killed for the same reason mob hitmen almost always kill: to protect the flow of illegal money.
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The Grocer shoved her, but he didn't plow her through a plate glass door, and he didn't stomp on her hand until the bones were broken. It was disproportionately brutal, and she was thoroughly embarrassed over it.
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Obviously she was a kid who was shocked by the violence in front of her, and only processed it all later.
sharelol
shareIt wasn't Peggy, it was everyone else.
shareShe just handled it different.
You either get a Peggy Sheeran or a Victoria Gotti.
What are you going to do?
Rumour has it that Anna Paquin had trouble remembering her lines for the movie😂
shareHaha very funny!
The easiest role she has ever had no doubt.
It was quite an odd part really, especially for Anna Paquin. Like I get why the character acted the way she did, but by the time she turned from young girl into Anna Paquin I was expecting her to have more dialogue with her dad about things. Instead I had to remind myself she wasn't a mute.
shareThe actor playing the role kinda over did it with the dead eyed catatonia. When she grew up into Paquin she was slightly more natural. If my kid behaved like that I'd take her to a shrink posthaste.
But yeah it wasn't hard to figure out. She knew her dad was a monster and she (over)acted accordingly.
The evil eye she gives Russell during the Christmas scene was on point though.
sharetotally agree, she slows the film down, imo.
shareShe knew they were evil people. She was one of the only ones who recognized it.
shareHer general silence for the most of the movie all builds up to the point where her father Frank mentions in quick passing that he hasn't called Hoffa's worried wife about Hoffa's disappearance yet.
Pacquin fixes her father with a stare and accusingly says "Why didn't you call?"
Frank tries to deflect her. She again asks "Why didn't you call?"
Frank gives a non-answer and then agrees to make the call.
DeNiro's narration is perhaps too "on the nose," but telling: "After that day , she never spoke to me again."
And we later SEE her abandon her bank teller job on the spot when Frank tries to approach her.
So here is a movie -- and a script -- that creates a female character in a very specific way: nearly silent except for one key phrase at the end: "Why didn't you call?"
That's when she knows that her own father killed his own best friend ...and a man she truly loved (Hoffa.)
And yet some dopey critics objected to Pacquin's lack of lines. Jeez. The movie was smarter than they were.