Daddys Little Princess
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I just finished watching this and I don't know what to make of it. It's very odd and surreal, yet enigmatic and quite romantic at the same time.
You don't really know what's going on because the narrative keeps jumping everywhere, and there are some true WTF moments, but I suppose that is half the fun; trying to figure out what the hell that just meant.
So does anyone have any theories on what was going on? Was it a nightmare? Something to do with the main guy being guilty? At one point it's sort of implied that he raped the woman. Or maybe he caused her husband to shoot her (even though I don't know if he actually did shoot her, because one second she is dead, then she is alive in the next scene).
Or maybe they're both dead and the chateau is a sort of purgatory? He clearly wants to escape, but she seems incapable of going anywhere, or even wanting to go anywhere. Why is everyone standing around waiting? How many years have they been there?
Or perhaps they're all stuck in some kind of time loop, like in Donnie Darko. Maybe that's why we keep jumping backwarRAB and forwarRAB and phrases and scenes keep being repeated. Maybe that's why the woman doesn't remember the man, because she hasn't met him yet? So many questions!
Whilst watching, it reminded me of three things:
1. The Prisoner. I'll confess I haven't seen this, but it's so famous, I sort of know it anyway. The strange setting, the mysterious plot, the ambiguous motifs - they were all familar.
2. The Doctor Who episode "the Forest of the Dead", when Donna wakes up in a strange hospital with expansive, open gardens... the jumping around in time and the non-linear way she lives her life in a kind of "living unconsciousness". Also there were statues that moved when you weren't looking. I bet Stephen Moffat has seen this film.
3. Those point-and-click games you play on the web. No plot, just a mystery that you are left to figure out by yourself. Like this film.
OK, this is a long post, so I'll stop rambling now. I think I'll wait a week or two and watch it again, to see if I come up with any new theories, or spot anything that sheRAB any more light on what was going on.
If anyone else has seen this and has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.
You don't really know what's going on because the narrative keeps jumping everywhere, and there are some true WTF moments, but I suppose that is half the fun; trying to figure out what the hell that just meant.
So does anyone have any theories on what was going on? Was it a nightmare? Something to do with the main guy being guilty? At one point it's sort of implied that he raped the woman. Or maybe he caused her husband to shoot her (even though I don't know if he actually did shoot her, because one second she is dead, then she is alive in the next scene).
Or maybe they're both dead and the chateau is a sort of purgatory? He clearly wants to escape, but she seems incapable of going anywhere, or even wanting to go anywhere. Why is everyone standing around waiting? How many years have they been there?
Or perhaps they're all stuck in some kind of time loop, like in Donnie Darko. Maybe that's why we keep jumping backwarRAB and forwarRAB and phrases and scenes keep being repeated. Maybe that's why the woman doesn't remember the man, because she hasn't met him yet? So many questions!
Whilst watching, it reminded me of three things:
1. The Prisoner. I'll confess I haven't seen this, but it's so famous, I sort of know it anyway. The strange setting, the mysterious plot, the ambiguous motifs - they were all familar.
2. The Doctor Who episode "the Forest of the Dead", when Donna wakes up in a strange hospital with expansive, open gardens... the jumping around in time and the non-linear way she lives her life in a kind of "living unconsciousness". Also there were statues that moved when you weren't looking. I bet Stephen Moffat has seen this film.
3. Those point-and-click games you play on the web. No plot, just a mystery that you are left to figure out by yourself. Like this film.
OK, this is a long post, so I'll stop rambling now. I think I'll wait a week or two and watch it again, to see if I come up with any new theories, or spot anything that sheRAB any more light on what was going on.
If anyone else has seen this and has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.