The opening scene..
I know this is probably a stupid question but can someone please explain the opening scene to me? Like why that boy was there and all that..
shareThe boy was their son. He died when he fell backwards down the basement steps. That's the reason why they confined their daughter, so no one would ever find out.
shareYeah I just rewatched it and saw that.
Something I don't understand, why did they tell daughter that the mother died?
I have no idea. That guy had one sick mind is all I can think of.
shareTo make her think she was alone so she wouldn't know that help was just a knock on the pipes or a scream away. She thought she was all alone.
shareOK, so the boy died when he fell down the steps (which didn't seem realistic to me, because it looked like they were carpeted, & it was just one flight)....but why was he hiding from his father to begin with and holding something to hit him with? Sorry, I just saw this come on, and I haven't actually watched the whole thing, so forgive me for asking....it just seemed like an odd beginning that left a bunch of questions, and then it goes forward in time by so many years.
shareThose questions were never really answered. The boy had apparently done something that the father didn't like and the father was going to punish him. The boy was trying to get out of the house, but the front door was deadlocked and the key wasn't there, so he went to the kitchen. I figured that he was headed to the back door. The mother intercepts him and he backs up, falling down the basement stairs in the process. He apparently either broke his neck or fractured his skull in the fall. At any rate, the fall killed him.
shareOK, so the boy died when he fell down the steps (which didn't seem realistic to me, because it looked like they were carpeted, & it was just one flight).
The falling down the stairs seemed realistic to me. Perhaps a better stunt double may have sold the fall a bit more impressively, but.
I stumbled down my staircase once. Was only 5-6 steps from the bottom. Stairs were carpeted but the landing at the bottom of the stairs was marble. I grabbed on to the sturdy bannister to prevent a complete head over heels tumble.
Caught myself but my left Tibia broke in 2 place, and my Fibula in 1 place. Needed 3 surgeries to get it right.
But yes I consider myself lucky in that one. So I can easily imagine getting much more beat up/injured on carpet steps from a higher level. share
So they confined their daughter in the basement so no one would know about the son? They figured she was the only one that knew about his death and since they didn't want her to get caught, they just kept her away from society? I just watched this movie and it just seemed, well, odd. I think the plot could've been okay, but there were just a lot of things I didn't get or understand.
shareI think that it may have been based on a true event.
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