This topic may have been addressed elsewhere on the board, but I'll forge ahead anyway. I'd appreciate it if someone could explain the character Sophia to me. Was she actually a childhood friend from Sarah's past, or was she a figment of Sarah's imagination? Either way, what was her dramatic purpose -- to assist Sarah in remembering what had happened in her childhood and therefore help promote healing, or what?
shareThink she was a childhood imaginary friend who reappears when back at the house to help her get revenge.
shareSophia is an imaginary person. Maybe developed as an imaginary friend in early childhood when Sarah was molested. (Most kids have imaginary friends anyways, it is even possible that Sophia may have been a doll of some sort that Saah once owned)
Since Sarah has multiple personality disorder and also can be assumed to be at least slightly schizophrenic, Sophia is just in her heads
Sophia is her guide/conscience.
Sophia is definitely imaginary. She was another part of Sarah's personality. Incidentally Sophia is the Greek word for wisdom, undoubtedly a subtle clue.
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At some point during the movie I thought that Sophia was a local girl who the father and uncle had been abusing, and that all this commotion was Sophia's supernatural revenge. Then later I figured that Sarah (Olsen) might have been aware of Sophia's abuse, and was therefore also the object of revenge. Even later it dawned on me that Sarah herself was the one who was abused. At which point I wondered, who the hell was Sophia? The interpretation that Sophia was an imaginary friend from Sarah's childhood ties the story up pretty well.
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