MovieChat Forums > Chloe (2010) Discussion > What was the point of chloe being ill?

What was the point of chloe being ill?

posted 15 years ago by helena_fan
42 replies | jump to latest

Okay so we see in the hotel room scene (where Chloe supposedly just had sex with Catherines husband) sneeze and say she feels like she's coming down with something. To which Catherine replies have you seen a doctor?
We then see Chloe sneeze again as they're leaving the hotel room and at one point Chloe says it's because she's taking zinc?
I felt this was emphasized a little, as if to make the audience actually notice she's sick but i didn't get the point of it...If anyone has any input that'd be great ;)

[–] natalieska 14 years ago

Nice interpretations but you are going too far. The sneezing was for the audience to connect the dots after finding out Chloe was in fact lying about the affair. If Chloe had had the flu, so would have Liam Neeson's character. That's when you say.. "oh right, the girl was sick and he wasn't.. it all makes sense now".

[–] NeedysBoy 14 years ago

nat_xd writes:
"...Chloe was in fact lying about the affair."

I'm not sure she was lying about anything. This film is a bit more complicated than it seems on the surface.

Watch Chloe's death scene again. Watch it very carefully. There are three or four symbolic elements that are very important.

P. A. T. (Needy's Boy)

[–] Steamboy 12 years ago

That was maybe to explain why she was sick in the later scene when she speaks with Michael through the wire fence at the outdoors rink. Seyfried had a raspy voice and looked real-life sick.

__________________________
1up-games.com Last watched: imdb.to/K4tvL9

[–] The_Sedgwicks_Daughter 10 years ago

I'm guessing most of it was probably improvisation on the actress part' because Seyfried may have had the flu in real life.

[–] 10 years ago

[deleted]

[–] pacekissa 10 years ago

It's manipulation. She sneezed crazy loud to totally offset the moment when Catherine started processing the fact that her husband went all the way with her. And as a woman/mother/doctor and in general a caring (normal) person, that offset Catherine's justified right to feel hurt and angry and forced her into the role of caring about this little monsters well being. They walk out of the room almost hand in hand like mother and daughter to onlookers! Think factually about the discussion they had and then the scene of them leaving the room. Combing those 2 you can see how absurd it is, but experiencing the manipulation along with Catherine in that room, we almost don't notice it either. This is how these people slowly alter their targets reality

[–] NeedysBoy 10 years ago

pacekissa writes: "It's manipulation...."

Wow.

That's a really cynical way to look at it!

 "Maybe it's another dimension. Or, you know, just really deep." --Needy

[–] jevicci (163) 7 years ago

What about the way she eyed the food and drank from the glass at the end of that scene. I wasn't sure what to make of that. If Chloe were sick, it's almost as if she wanted to catch it...or something? I don't know. I'd be curious to get others' thoughts on this.

[–] holly61 (989) 5 years ago

Chloe being HIV positive is not that much of a stretch. Especially how she tried to have revenge sex with the son - I got the idea, as a few other people in this this thread, that she was trying to infect him.

And the ''all clear'' AIDS test and STD report she gave out before could have been bogus.