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Please answer a few questions

posted 8 years ago by Tyler-A-Arse
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1) What was the purpose regarding the corner of the carpet the bottom of the stairs always being curled up.

2) What was the significance of Polly always walking forward/backwards.

The only reason I watched this was because of the performance I saw Ruth Wilson give as Alice in "Luther". Her acting was incredible in that series. She's very talented. And this could've been such a good movie. The cinematography was incredible, but the story was slow, lethargic, and boring. About halfway through, I forced myself to finish. It was like watching your nails grow.

[–] just_an_oli87 8 years ago

I think it had to do with what Ms Blum said, that she turned her back so many times her feet turned around the wrong way. But also connected to how she died, though that was never explained minus the husband murdering her shortly after their wedding and hiding her body in the wall that was molding.

[–] Gromit4 8 years ago

I took it as this has something to do with how Lily died, that perhaps she had fallen down the steps, thus causing the carpet to curl as her body fell? That's how I took it...

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[–] Tyler-A-Arse 8 years ago

I took it as this has something to do with how Lily died, that perhaps she had fallen down the steps, thus causing the carpet to curl as her body fell?

More logical then anything I could come up with.

[–] IMDB_Vits 8 years ago

What was the purpose regarding the corner of the carpet the bottom of the stairs always being curled up.

I assumed that it showed how much she cared about order.

[–] Tyler-A-Arse 8 years ago

I assumed that it showed how much she cared about order.

But the carpet kept flipping itself up.

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[–] trish722 8 years ago

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[–] Furrerd 8 years ago

That's a decent explanation but when Iris looked at Lily, she saw her as Polly and after Lily was dead, Lily was able to travel back in time to when Iris was a young writer.
This means that Lily would have been able to haunt Iris in the past and would explain how Iris knew her already.

Polly didn't look at Lily with any disdain or hatred; she just made her self visible to Lily and shared her location. Lily's heart just wasn't capable of handling the horror of a spectre. Although, Polly had communicated to Lily that she would end up rotting there in the berry washing scene so either Polly saw Lily's future or planned on killing her.

The story is open to several interpretations and I'm not sure if that is weak writing or intended.

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[–] bpollen 8 years ago

Very good points.

I hadn't realized that Lily had gone back in time. I thought that Iris had become a ghost, too, and was inhabiting the house with both Polly & Lily. Remember when Lily first went to Iris' room and saw her on the floor? Iris had died, apparently. Then Lily went to the office and saw the young Iris there. I thought she was a ghost. Not that Lily had gone back in time.