final dialogue
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captbeefheart6 — 12 years ago(August 15, 2013 09:34 PM)
When the girl goes to the hospital(?) what does the woman say to her? And what does the woman say when the girl says "babby coming"? I just cant make out what the woman is saying.
And did anyone else notice the danging bodies swaying in the breeze out the front of it, or the two other people slinking through the night -
NewYorkGrove — 12 years ago(September 14, 2013 11:56 AM)
I think the "nurse" or "Mid-wife" was saying such thing as first she asks Jane if she's been hurt then say "I've got no time for that and use your common sense but there is a something that she say I can NOT make out either
Yes, I saw the 2 bodies dangling I think that was law in order in post war Great Britain and from the special power handed to the courts shortly after the attack ended, Did you noticed the automoble in the bushes she passes by, that was her father's car that he was driving at the time of the crisis/tension/war she also walks by the kemps former home and the pub
My question has always been who was the man in the bed in said "hospital" was Jane was giving birth -
novastar_6 — 12 years ago(September 14, 2013 09:43 PM)
My question has always been who was the man in the bed in said "hospital" was Jane was giving birth
Another patient maybe?
Of course my question was if the woman has no time for babies, what does she do there, and why did they finally put Jane in a bed? -
greg-233 — 12 years ago(September 15, 2013 02:39 AM)
"Of course my question was if the woman has no time for babies, what does she do there, and why did they finally put Jane in a bed?"
When the woman says to Jane "no time time for babies here", maybe she really meant "this isn't the kind of world to bring a baby into". (Because the times they're living in are so bad.) That hospital probably sees more deaths than births. They must have put Jane on a bed when she collapsed and it was obvious she couldn't go anywhere.
The kind of treatment the woman administers is probably just basic first aid, nothing fancy. They couldn't do much about cancer or other diseases. In fact they probably practise euthenasia. -
JamesConway — 11 years ago(November 30, 2014 12:38 PM)
It's very straightforward.
The post-attack world appears to prioritise the little progression it has made and probably protects whatever resources it has even stronger.
The simple use of heat, water and materials for something as everyday as child birth would be a trivial waste. Though when you see the male patient and his wretched condition it's hard to tell just what function the hospital serves.
It looks relatively clean and has spare beds and most importantly they do deliver Jane's baby in the end. -
znapper — 10 years ago(October 02, 2015 02:09 AM)
It's just as simple as that place isn't equipped or staffed for child-delivery, the "no time" section of that sentence is probably an ambiguous way of saying "we don't do such things here" or "we don't prioritize that here/we treat real illness here".
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tgs333 — 10 years ago(October 02, 2015 07:36 AM)
I was always boggled by who she knew to go to the "hospital". She must of assumed there was some sort of medical treatment there.
"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep." -
JamesConway — 9 years ago(December 21, 2016 03:50 PM)
Considering the utter bleakness of the film, its surprising in hindsight to re-evaluate the final scenes and wonder exactly what kind of world people are living in.
I've not seen the film for years but a couple of plot-points still stick in my mind.- Electricity - being used for the relatively trivial pursuit of educating children and powering a single light bulb in the street as well as most of the hospital setting. The logistics in powering these few areas in such a world would be vast and must point to a larger infrastructure.
- Hospital - which is powered by electricity and staffed by dedicated nurses albeit on a triage footing. Their are clean, empty beds and even room for terminal patients. Jane also appears to purposely visit the hospital knowing they can be of help, and (interestingly) the notion of having a 'home' is explored by the nurse who is obviously pre-war.
- Soilders - a short edit shows soilders entering a well lit shack containing music and giggling women. Despite the deplorable devastation of a nuclear war there appears to be enough respite by those in charge to engage in music and getting laid within relatively comfortable surrondings.
Maybe 13 years was too far for the story to progress to, as even within the uncertain predictions of what a nuclear could bring the film makes the prediction that no matter what the circumstances, mankind does live on.
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RuggerPug — 10 years ago(July 10, 2015 02:11 AM)
"My question has always been who was the man in the bed in said "hospital" was Jane was giving birth"
I read somewhere that it's meant to be Jimmy, that's why it focuses in on him. That and the Johnny Be Goode playing connection aswell; how he's somehow survived it all and doesn't realise it's his daughter+grandchild beside him. It does look like him but could just be a hopefull(?) theory. -
Cor_Blimey_Trouser_Wearer — 10 years ago(July 09, 2015 03:08 AM)
"What's wrong? Have you been hurt?"
"Babby! Coming!"
"Ooh no time for babbies here."
"Is coming! Babby is coming"
"No time for babbies here. You have to go home. Use your common sense"
"Coming! Coming!!"
I took it as either a miscommunication or about breaking curfew maybe. The girl was young, likely not carrying to term due to poor health. Malnourished. She probably didn't look pregnant covered with a heavy coat. For those who were educated before the war, trying to communicate with people who only spoke this broken English was probably very difficult.