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Were any of the townspeople interviewed supposed to be dead?

posted 12 years ago by ideasasopiates
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I know this is going to sound so lame, but I just went back through all of the messages and I didn't see this asked anywhere. After watching the film on Netflix today, there was only thing that kind of confused me, even after I'd played the scenes back a few times. It seemed to me that at least two of the townspeople interviewed were talking as if they had already died and Bernie had done their...what's the word? (Preparation?) The first was a lady who talked about how Bernie made her wrinkles disappear and put some flowers in her hand, and the other was an older man sitting in the back of his truck discussing how well Bernie could make somehow look, "No matter how we'd died."

I'm going to watch this again tomorrow because I really enjoyed the film, but I just wondered if anyone else interpreted those two interviews like I did?

R Walker

[–] ozzyager 12 years ago

I just took that as a collective "we" as in "he would make all of us in the town look good". But I think your interpretation is interesting.

[–] DuckyGirl 11 years ago

That's a really interesting way to see it!

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[–] Saggygrandmama 10 years ago

You are definitely misinterpreting all of that. Actually, there's really nothing to interpret. Those people are just telling us how good Bernie is at making the dead people look good.

Like that lady said "he can take away your wrinkles" meaning: he makes the person who is dead look less old and wrinkly.

And that man in his truck was just stating that no matter how someone died, Bernie would make them look presentable.

The dead are not talking to us, this is not that type of movie.

[–] buffyMove 10 years ago

I think those people are actually the real townspeople, not actors, so they can't be dead. They're just speaking incorrectly, saying "we" and "you" when they mean people who have died.

[–] goodtobehappy 10 years ago

No they are actors, one of them was Matthew McConaughey's mother!

[–] sarahleigh81 (107) 5 years ago

There was a mix of actors and real townspeople playing themselves.

[–] KMPINTJ 10 years ago

I confess that the first lady who said it made me wonder that, too (something like "he made us up good when we died and he could fix our teeth..." but I later realized she just me "we, the townspeople."