During the memory draining sequence, it shows a party. Everyone's dressed up. Zarkov cries out, "Hilda! Hilda!" They
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jgroub — 10 years ago(January 31, 2016 06:53 PM)
During the memory draining sequence, it shows a party. Everyone's dressed up. Zarkov cries out, "Hilda! Hilda!" They playfully throw her into the pool in her fancy cocktail dress. And then they watch her as she just drowns. She was literally right there, not 10 feet away, and she drowns.
WTF?
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glenmusher — 9 years ago(April 11, 2016 12:33 PM)
Remember it's Zarkov's memory of the event, not necessarily how it happened, mixed in with his feelings of guilt, sorrow and helplessness about it.
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reallexkat — 9 years ago(December 30, 2016 03:59 PM)
How? As glenmusher stated, it's Zarkov's memory of the event. So in reality, when his wife drowned, no one just stood around watching. How it actually happened, we don't know. Perhaps she cracked her head when she was thrown in. Perhaps she wasn't literally thrown in, but accidently pushed and no one noticed until it was too late.
The idea is that it's not truly his memory, just his emotional reaction of the memory. Most importantly, the feeling that it was his fault. -