Sickening scene (spoilers)
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Bourne Identity
popularsi — 13 years ago(March 06, 2013 07:10 PM)
The scene where Jason Bourne and Marie exit the apartment building after Bourne kills the assassin, and we see the old lady's corpse with a bullet hole in her forehead staring lifelessly at them. Marie's character responded to this scene by throwing up before they exited the door. Are most people okay with this scene?
FYI I'm not trying to be a big baby, I can handle war movies, some horrors, most thrillers, sci-fi, slasher films. I have seen lots of blood and guts that should desensitise most people. This is in case someone says "Don't watch these kind of movies if they scare you etc". Also, only this scene stood out in a shocking way, everyone about this movie was great. -
popularsi — 13 years ago(March 10, 2013 01:28 PM)
I'm not use to seeing old ladies with a gunshot wound to the forehead. Who would want to hurt an old lady? To silence her and gain access to the apartment building.Normally old lady civilians are left unharmed in action/thriller movies because they aren't perceived as a threat. Maybe I missed something because the assassin that tried to kill Bourne in the apartment, smashed and entered through the apartment window, so I wonder why the old lady was killed. Was it to silence her in case she rang the cops while the assassin was trying to kill Bourne, from all the broken glass/damage noises caused by the fighting?
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Skvoznyak — 13 years ago(March 11, 2013 09:22 PM)
To silence her, to keep her from calling the cops, to keep her from being able to identify him, or maybe just because she pissed him off - we didn't see the killing, but it could have been one or more of any of the above. No idea. I still have no problem with the scene; if I were to think of scenes which really bothered me, this one wouldn't make the list.
An example of a scene which DID bother me was the blurry scene showing the retrieval of the girl's corpse in Dirty Harry. We knew she was a hostage and the odds of her being saved with that much time left in the movie were slim, but they didn't have to show that scene - they could have just told us that she was dead. -
popularsi — 13 years ago(March 12, 2013 12:40 PM)
I might be going off in a tangent here but have you seen the movie "The Fourth Kind" starring Milla Johovich? It's a thriller/horror in my opinion.
Anyway, there's a scary scene in it and I stopped watching it because of that. There were many scenes where Milla is the "shrink" and lots of patients freak out during the meetings when they retell their stories to Milla.
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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.