Sickening scene (spoilers)
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Skvoznyak — 13 years ago(March 12, 2013 07:21 PM)
No, sorry, I had never heard of it until you mentioned it.
I do share the tendency you have in having a limit as to what I'm willing to accept violence-wise; my limits obviously aren't as strict as yours, but they are there. The scene I described in Dirty Harry was, in my opinion, essential to the plot because the idea was to stir up outrage in the viewer, but that scene was still too much for me. Sorry, though - I had no trouble with the Bourne scene that bothered you so much. -
henrikmk25 — 12 years ago(January 23, 2014 08:27 AM)
I think it's appropriate for you to be sick and quite OK; It's the same response as Marie and I tend to think of Marie as representing the audience in the film, an ordinary person, who is thrown into Bourne's world. Marie is the only way we really learn about the human behind Jason Bourne.
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michaelexarkun — 11 years ago(February 20, 2015 11:59 AM)
Marie's reaction wasn't just to the old lady's corpse, but to Bourne fighting the assassin in the apartment, his having her picture, and the assassin jumping out of the window to commit suicide.
She was in shock and disbelief, so her throwing up was a normal reaction. -
smoko — 10 years ago(April 24, 2015 11:06 PM)
@michaelexarkun That's how I saw it as well.
She might've been able to handle the sight of the dead old lady on its own; but after the barrage of shocks she just went through, the sight was the final straw that was just too much for her system to handle. I can't say that I blame her. -
imranbecks — 9 years ago(July 23, 2016 08:53 PM)
Her reaction after seeing the body at the lobby was realistic. Any normal person who has never seen such stuff would probably barf as well. Before this, she had never gone through such things. She was clearly in shock and was barely able to walk on her own. She just saw a man casually jump out the window after being beaten by Bourne. And then she sees the women who greeted them dead with a gunshot wound to the head.