Ilena's Pregnancy
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Kelea7 — 11 years ago(September 28, 2014 09:03 PM)
i believed she was pregnant but i never believed it was caine's. shareef said she slept around for one, & for two caine said he always used condoms
Guys say that a lot though.
And just because she slept around doesn't mean she didn't genuinely think it was Caine's. As in he's the last guy she was with. It's how I saw it.
That being said I don't think it was made explicitly clear that she was lying. She was very convincing and her reaction didn't scream, "she's a liar!" I thought it made Caine look insensitive. Personally, I felt that down the line he could have had a change of heart about the child, but to many people it looks like he's bailing on his potential responsibility. I think they should have done something more definitive to show she was lying (like showing a false pregnancy test), or even better just come up with a different motive. It was weak the way it played out, but the film still works because of the powerful imagery of the ending.
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fiatlux-1 — 11 years ago(June 21, 2014 06:43 PM)
Illena wasn't even smart enough not to use a phone during a thunderstorm LOL.
Its not surprising she got pregnant. While Caine is of course equally responsible, Illena made her own mistake too. She should have used her own birth control as backup.
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mizzdimplzz — 11 years ago(February 06, 2015 01:59 AM)
Just finished watching it and it's the first time I ever considered she might have been lying.
In the scene towards the end where her "cousin" is leaving and getting ready to do the drive by on Cain the way she tries to stop him/comfort him was pretty off for "cousins"..she tried to embrace him hold him when he wouldn't give in to her pleas
The other scenes were pretty bad at eluding to her shadinessI never considered this before today..logged on here to see my suspicions were valid