So was the wife beating thing…
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Good Neighbor
wiebejammen — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 07:59 AM)
Something Ethan just made up to justify victimizing Grainy? I do believe he was nasty enough to poison a dog.
Let's face it, he was a nasty SOB. I can see kids wanting to f@ck with him. The totally illogical thing was the kid picking up the bell. It was very obviously a bell, so, duh, it would make a noise.
As for the suicide, how would anyone know it could trigger a suicide? I think their sentence was appropriate.
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JoaquinValley — 9 years ago(December 09, 2016 06:52 PM)
I believe the wife would scream out for help when she was needing something or she was in pain from whatever disease she had (I'm assuming cancer). That's why he bought her the bell so she could summon him without screaming.
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danny-78290 — 9 years ago(December 10, 2016 09:46 PM)
My take was that Ethan's dad beat Ethan's the mom, and the mom ran across the street to the old man's house for help. Since Ethan blamed the old man for breaking up the family unit forever, Ethan transferred the wife beater label on the old man just for spite.
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smidget65 — 9 years ago(December 18, 2016 11:23 AM)
The wife beater thing happened, he was being the "good neighbor" at that time.
The wife asking for help in kitchen and about door, and he was cold toward her, was BEFORE she was stricken with cancer.
When she became sick, he really started to realize what he had and was losing.
He gave her the bell to call him after death. he intended it; he tells her, almost choking up, that he will hear it when she calls.
the kid ringing the bell accidentally made him think that she was calling him.
"I'll hear it and I'll come to you."