on the children in the town? WTF did they have to do with anything? They didn't murder her son, and the families had nothing to do with the death. So, what's the point of her just randomly killing, because her son was left for dead in a mud bog by her sister and her ex?
shareYeah, evil ghosts are like that.
shareShe was evil and wanted revenge. It's very similar to The Ring - Samara is murdered by her mother, so she kills anyone who watches her video tape. The only way to survive is to make a copy and show it to someone else, so the curse spreads. The ghosts don't care who they kill, it doesn't matter whose fault it was they are dead - they're just filled with hate and want other people to feel their pain!
shareI don't have a good answer for her motive but the WiB only kills a child when she has been sighted at the house by a visitor. Her actions are not, therefore, random.
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There is no point other than her showing off her anger and jealousy at all parents who live happily with their children and are loved by them.
In my opinion, one of the flaws of this movie is that they choose to depict Jennet as a personal force, a dead person who thinks and acts basically just as the living do, instead of as a kind of phenomenon or curse. I think the 1989 adaptation worked much better on this level. The woman in black was an apparition, almost like a signal -whenever she was spotted, it meant that a child would die tragically. She didn't intervene actively in it almost in any case.
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What an interesting analysis you make! I liked it.
I agree that the idea behind the 2012 movie is not realistic. The whole story doesn't feel believable to me. I think both the book and the 1989 movie had an inner logic that this one lacks.
You have to remember that they took away her son because she was crazy.
the doctors did not find her fit enough to take care of him. She was probably insane in life.
so when she died, she was the ghost of an insane woman.
we are led to believe that her sister was evil,and to feel bad for the Woman in Black,
but she was probably trying to protect the kid from the mother.
Woman in Black was probably *beep* crazy and a bitch.
so it makes sense she would act insane after death. she was crazy.
One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
That’s the problem with ghosts, they’re douche-bags who lash out at everybody. As is often the case with vengeful spirits, they become evil and attack everybody, including innocents, not just those that did them wrong.
There's a crap ton of responses already, so I'm not going to read them all (I did scan the first page quickly though). So forgive me if what I'm about to say has already been discussed.
I think she had a rather valid reason for getting revenge, in her over-kill ghostly way. You can tell by her letters that even alive she was already unstable, and her sister and her husband decided that she was mentally unfit to care for her son, so she got locked away in her room, and her sister adopted the boy, never telling him the truth. As if that wasn't enough, Jennet was never allowed to see the boy. I imagine she was locked in that room full time, doing nothing to help her fragile mind. Then, the family was in an accident, their wagon veered off the road and sank into the marsh. The woman and her husband lived, but the boy drowned, his body never to be found. Jennet was sure her sister didn't try save the boy, just concentrated on saving herself, and then killed herself out of grief. I think all that has the classic makings of a ghostly revenge story.
As for the ending, I thought it made perfect sense (and wasn't supposed to be scary). Jennet decided that just having the boy back wasn't enough, that she'd promised to never forgive, so she went back to town to kill a child, since Arthur had seen her again. For extra insult, she decided it would be Arthur's boy. What she didn't count on was Arthur jumping onto the tracks and dying with his son. The fact that he didn't die alone and "unwanted" made it so she couldn't take him, giving us a "happy ending", reuniting Arthur, Joseph and Stella.
Personally, I loved this film. I thought it was incredibly well done, well acted and very atmospheric. It's hard to keep a film that has so little dialogue interesting, but I wasn't bored for a second. I was very pleased to see young Daniel up his game. It's a demanding sort of role, a lot has to be said with the face and body. They had a few Boo!scares, but not so many that it got annoying (it would be awesome if films stopped using them altogether, but that's me dreaming in technicolour again). I gave it a 9/10.
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I think she had a rather valid reason for getting revenge, in her over-kill ghostly way. You can tell by her letters that even alive she was already unstable, and her sister and her husband decided that she was mentally unfit to care for her son, so she got locked away in her room, and her sister adopted the boy, never telling him the truth. As if that wasn't enough, Jennet was never allowed to see the boy. I imagine she was locked in that room full time, doing nothing to help her fragile mind. Then, the family was in an accident, their wagon veered off the road and sank into the marsh. The woman and her husband lived, but the boy drowned, his body never to be found. Jennet was sure her sister didn't try save the boy, just concentrated on saving herself, and then killed herself out of grief. I think all that has the classic makings of a ghostly revenge story.
As for the ending, I thought it made perfect sense (and wasn't supposed to be scary). Jennet decided that just having the boy back wasn't enough, that she'd promised to never forgive, so she went back to town to kill a child, since Arthur had seen her again. For extra insult, she decided it would be Arthur's boy. What she didn't count on was Arthur jumping onto the tracks and dying with his son. The fact that he didn't die alone and "unwanted" made it so she couldn't take him, giving us a "happy ending", reuniting Arthur, Joseph and Stella.
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Ya, I totally agree with you!!
It didn't make sense for her to kill kids from other families that had nothing to do with her or her sister Alice! Geez! Bad story line.
.. and if anyone can see her (WIB), then their kids die? So in that sense, what are her limitations? does that mean she can roam the country, then the world and just kill off everyone's kids??! Geez...