The mother seemed sane and loved her children and yet arranged for her own murder for the insurance money. For what, to save the farm? to save her family? I don't get it. You walk away. You pack the kids in the station wagon and don't look back. I think they should of had the mother struggling with a mental illness.....Am i missing something?
shareYeah I never understood this at all either. Your kids aren't going to care about the money. There will be so much counciling and psychiatry bills for the rest of their lives what does it matter.
And seriously you could gives all the money in the world and I still wouldn't ever want my mom stabbed to death to get it.
Does the station wagon take you somewhere where money isn't needed? If you're 500,ooo in debt, you're 500,ooo in debt no matter where you are.
shareThe station wagon takes you to a magical place, where your whole family lives a long life,in debt yes, but very much alive. Come on, you have to agree living in debt is a whole lot less traumatic for the family then arranging you own murder! If the murder had gone as planed each child would of woken up to see there mother stabbed to death. Its this part that ruined the movie for me. She had many outs.
shareIf she walked away and left her children behind then she was still in debt and her children would be sent to orphanage because her sister wouldn't have money to take care of them. Arranging a murder for the insurance money would help her children have a much better life with her sister.
She was hopeless and desperate. She had an abusive husband who kept coming back to steal her money and she thought she was an useless mother who couldn't help her son from becoming evil. At the end she thought they would live much better without her.
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...would *have*. Please; there is no such term as 'would/should/could of'.
What you think you have heard (and this points clearly to a person who reads very, very little) is a contraction of the words 'would have' that is written as so: would've.
Would have = would've
Could have = could've
Should have = should've
This has to be one of the most irritating errors in English.
Grammar Nazi, bite me!
shareThe simple answer is that she was suicidal. She had some kind of depression or mental disorder. It did not make sense whatsoever to kill herself "for her children". It must have been a rationalization. I guess we just don't know what went through her head.
shareMore importantly what kind of "loving mom" arranges for her hired killer to kill her in the house with her kids present ? Even if things had gone smoothly, the kids would still have been the ones who found her.
A simple robbery-gone-wrong scenario on some deserted road while having a baby-sitter at home would have been the obvious way to go, no ?
When I'm gone I would like something to be named after me. A psychiatric disorder, for example.
Yes, this decision made me lose all compassion and empathy for the character.
shareSuicidal people always think that their families and friends will be better off without them. Patty Day was extremely depressed and overwhelmed by assorted problems. She was unable to think rationally. I think she felt like a complete failure at life and wanted to die. The insurance money was a convenience.
As for her children seeing her corpse... she had intended to die on the front porch. Her sister Diane was supposed to find her body first thing in the morning.
Send lawyers,guns and money/The *beep* has hit the fan