by r-magar (Mon Jan 19 2009 14:50:55)
"I dont think she deserved the forgivness she was looking for.
Near the end of the film, the little boy she kidnapped apppears in front of her. She goes over to say something, maybe to apologise or to ask for forgivness. The boy turns into an adult, the age he would be if he were alive. He shakes his head with sadness and walks away.
I dont believe she should be forgiven because she was essentially not a nice person for the following reasons:
- She kidnapped the boy, wanting to get ransom for him. She was old enough (16) to know better, even if she was fed lies re: theory of "good and bad kidnappings"
- She confessed to a murder which she knew she was not guilty of. Instead of telling the police who he was, she decided to be wrongly imprisoned. I know her daughter was in danger, but this was selfish, though understandable. What about the feelings of the dead boys family? They would want justice, not the real killer still free. No wonder she was going to cut off her fingers for forgivness.
- Because she confessed to the crime, this enabled the real killer to kill other children. She indirectly caused this, since she had the power to stop it in the first place.
- In prison she changed completely to get released early and make friends on the outside. She was really decieving these people, killing their enemies (the big lesbian woman for example), being lovers with that girl and being overtly religious, to use them to her advantage in her plan for revenge after her release. She didnt care about these people.
She knew herself, that deep down inside she was a bad person. You can maybe equate her to the likes of Myra Hindley or a Rose West, whose partners did the more worse of the crimes.
I have sympathy for what she went through, and you were rooting for her, and her plan, to kill the bigger fish. I am perhaps being a bit harsh on her, but do you see where I am coming from?"
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