the fetus
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Reflecting Skin
drdaleposey — 17 years ago(January 14, 2009 09:50 PM)
Did I miss the part where one might get a clue as to where the fishy-smelling angel fetus came from? The movie was great, but was this just a symbol or had someone hidden a dead baby in the barn?
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drdaleposey — 17 years ago(January 18, 2009 07:26 PM)
Thanks. It looked clearly like a clay carving, but the boys said it smelled like fish? So I thought it must be something organic. You're probably right, though. Just a thing to represent the angel/ dead child concept.
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abchulett — 17 years ago(February 01, 2009 01:37 PM)
I got the impression it was the main character's dead little sibling whose body had been placed in the barn and dessicated/mummified somewhat. Lord knows that mother didn't need to have any more children! It seemed to have been stillborn, not just fetal. That would help explain her major depression, as if she needed more disaster in her life.
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WarpedRecord — 17 years ago(March 09, 2009 10:00 PM)
That's a very good explanation, especially considering the mother's frame of mind. I also thought it was a stillbirth, because it was pretty much the size of a newborn, not a fetus. Of course, all this is speculation because it's up to us to draw our own conclusions.
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flurng-1 — 13 years ago(March 02, 2013 11:11 PM)
Someone mentioned that the baby corpse was "mummified", and thus dehydrated. And, if you recall, Seth's mother kept forcing him to drink water, plus his father mentioned once or twice that it's important to stay hydrated - therefor, it would seem to me that the baby may have been Seth & Cameron's still-born / new-born brother, who died of severe dehydration, prompting his parents to obsess about drinking water. Or, I'm crazy - one of the two.