I empathise with her condition. But do you feel that she should be aware that her approach to finding love was wrong?
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Synetech — 10 years ago(August 26, 2015 10:07 PM)
She was mentally unstable. That said, the second time I watched it (knowing the twist), I couldnt help but wonder if her mental instability was a product of her condition and if she would have still been like that had she been able to grow normally.
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ncdwbmk6 — 10 years ago(August 27, 2015 08:37 AM)
The Saarne Institute doctor tells Kate that Esther murdered another family and then burned down their house. Maybe if she had had treatment early in her life she could have become healthy, but in the film's time frame I think it's a bit late for that.
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deaddisco79 — 10 years ago(September 08, 2015 03:11 PM)
Not at all. She was mentally disturbed. Everyone goes through issues in their lives and they deal with them. Giving someone a free pass because they were "abused" or have some condition is absolutely insane. Then everyone could go out and kill people just because they had a "rough childhood".
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whitespirit26 — 10 years ago(September 09, 2015 02:38 AM)
Oh please, no one's making excuses or giving free passes; obviously she needs mental help, for a long time. But I think she deserves loving care. And it's a little hard to "deal" with something like rape from a parent beginning in infancy when you don't know anything else in life.
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Taravilyaion — 9 years ago(May 05, 2016 01:12 AM)
"Then everyone could go out and kill people just because they had a rough childhood"
That doesn't always have to be a bad thing..
If children are allowed to kill the people who sexually abused them, then pedophilia would (hopefully) get extinct fast..
.. or women who got raped were allowed to murder their rapists, instead of getting arrested for carying a weapen without a permit..
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Strazdamonas — 9 years ago(July 12, 2016 01:19 PM)
A person with a condition of dwarfism that she had does deserve a normal life. Her as a person however does not. She was clearly mentally ill and a danger to society.
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blackbird-44953 — 9 years ago(February 06, 2017 10:26 AM)
In the movie without knowing the backstory you get the impression her psychosis is all based on her condition. That she was never accepted or could find normal love because of her condition. With the backstory it makes even more sense why she was psychotic. She was psychotic so her approach to love only made sense in her own head. If you present yourself as a child and get adopted of course the adopted father is going to freak out if you make a move on him. Unless of course he is a sick pedophile. If she had not had that backstory and presented herself another way she might have found people to love her.
But she didn't know that, poor thing; she didn't think they'd accept her.