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Deleted scenes of the son should have been in the film

posted 14 years ago by scarletminded
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I have a feeling they were deleted because the son was having an affair with a teacher. He was 16 and the teacher 26. It's in the news all the time and maybe the makers of this film didn't want to be scandalous.

But...

I wish it was in there. Without that story, it seems like the son is just a jerk the way he treats his mom. At least with the scene there, there is a reason for the son to not like his mom, since she threatened the teacher.

His moving in with a 26 year old teacher ties in with Catherine's husband's flirting with students too! It might make Catherine more paranoid about such things.

Then it also ties in with the odd sexual lives of the family. Like Catherine decides to threaten the teacher with calling the police...yet she decides to hire a call girl in order to find out about her husband. So this odd sexual thing runs in the family.

And the story of Chloe's mom too...it links up with her mommy complex...so why was that left out. Directors always say it is because it slows the movie down, but the deleted scenes in total are less than five minutes long.

I don't get it...when the scenes in there, it's a better film!

[–] NeedysBoy 14 years ago

scarletminded writes:
"His moving in with a 26 year old teacher ties in with Catherine's husband's flirting with students too! It might make Catherine more paranoid about such things."

I never thought of that.

"Directors always say it is because it slows the movie down, but the deleted scenes in total are less than five minutes long."

Some scenes were removed because Egoyan wanted Chloe to be mysterious for allegorical reasons. For instance, in the script when Chloe meets Michael and Catherine asks Chloe if she spoke to her son, Chloe lies and says "no." In the film this is gone. Chloe is a Christ figure -- she can't lie.

"I think it's time to see Amanda sticking guns in people's faces."

[–] swanstep 12 years ago

@NeedysBoy. But what you seem to be saying is that Chloe doesn't/can't lie in the film. But that's just false. Obviously she's lied throughout about having sex with the husband and then fairly near the end she get's additionally, gratuitously specific in her lying, e.g., about how the husband has been telling her that when he gets it on with Catherine he feels like he's cheating on Chloe.

If Chole is a christ-figure she's a lying-nonstop one.

[–] NeedysBoy 12 years ago

swanstep writes: "If Chole is a christ-figure she's a lying-nonstop one."

Yeah, I struggled with this one for too long!

The solution is simple: Chloe's stories can be seen as analogous to parables, which contain a higher truth.

David has stoped loving Catherine, and Chloe knows it. Remember how she says that she knows what a client wants, even if the client won't say it?

Catherine wants to know about David -- Chloe tells her.

But Catherine is really looking for a higher love, and she finds it through Chloe's death. There was even an alternate ending on Youtube in which Catherine says just that.

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

[–] Cal_Mac 13 years ago

I wonder if an uncut version will ever be made available on DVD?

Or are those scenes lost for ever?

[–] agentalbert 12 years ago

The run time on the US blu-ray is 96 minutes. But there is a Canadian Blu-Ray that shows a runtime of 99 minutes. I don't have either, but maybe that Canadian one is un-rated.

[–] NeedysBoy 12 years ago

The deleted scenes are on the video.

An alternate ending was posted on Youtube.

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

[–] ReDoom 12 years ago

Possible to give the link for these 2?? :)

Thank you!

[–] NeedysBoy 12 years ago

I just looked for the alternate ending, and I couldn't find it!

Damn. It must have been pulled down.

(It featured a voice over by Catherine saying something like, Chloe could have saved herself, but she saved me.)

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