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Post by The Dependable Deliverer on Apr 17, 2006 15:25:40 GMT -5
I think it's possible that she killed him, i mean she wasn't happy with him otherwise she wouldn't have had an affair with Gilbert and she didn't seem that upset when he drowned, she seemed rather relieved
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Post by The Eternal Optimist on Apr 17, 2006 18:52:34 GMT -5
Maybe I am not sure I felt kinda sorry for her cause she was in an unhappy marriage but that is no reason to kill someone. But I don't like her cause freaking was a dirty old lady leave poor gilbert alone.  ;D |
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Post by The Poetic Protégée on Apr 18, 2006 16:12:18 GMT -5
I don't think she killed him but I think perhaps she was aware that he was dying and deliberately chose not to help because she saw his death as the answer to her unhappiness. She certainly wasn't a very happy woman.
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Post by The Dependable Deliverer on Apr 19, 2006 13:09:13 GMT -5
Yeah, she definately WAS NOT happy with him. If she did leave him to die i don't blame her cause everyone deserves happiness, but she could have filed for a divorce or something
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Post by Candy Queen on Apr 21, 2006 9:31:10 GMT -5
But in the time that the movie was set in divorce might not have been an option.
Personally I think she did kill him.
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Post by The Poetic Protégée on Apr 23, 2006 5:09:48 GMT -5
You're right, Roxie. Divorce probably wasn't an option in the sense it is today. In a small town where everyone knows everything the scandal would have been huge.
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Post by The Dependable Deliverer on Apr 23, 2006 9:26:27 GMT -5
I suppose, she could have left him and moved away or something... She was in a difficult situation really cause if she did leave him she wouldn't have any money and she wouldn't have anywhere to go
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Post by amp on May 22, 2008 20:11:49 GMT -5
Betty did not kill her husband. I don't believe that for a minute! She had security and a sexy boy-toy. The perfect life! hehe
Seriously, the film pretty much had me thinking she was just an innocent victim of her husband's random and tragic accident.
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Post by The Time Mistress on May 23, 2008 8:13:00 GMT -5
But then again there is one thing I don't get, at the funeral of her husband and after that she goes into the shop where Gilbert works and she asks Gilbert for some ciggerates with menthol in them, and then she says while Gilbert lits her ciggerate she says I miss him, and I don't I miss him and I don't.
She says that twice, so on one hand I think she might have seen him die but decided not to call for help and on the other hand I have a feeling she didn't saw it at all.
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Post by Emily on May 29, 2008 1:09:30 GMT -5
Hmm, it is a hard one, but I personally don't think that she killed him. I don't think the writers even new whether she killed him.  |
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Post by amp on May 29, 2008 8:39:49 GMT -5
Hmm, it is a hard one, but I personally don't think that she killed him. I don't think the writers even new whether she killed him. There you have it! I agree, Emily. Even the writers did not know if they wanted it that she killed him. I need to read the book. Does it address this issue in the book? |
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Post by The Idyllic Idealist on Oct 11, 2008 17:58:17 GMT -5
I really don't know, I thought she did because she was unhappy in her marriage and at that point she lost Gilbert - maybe losing Gilbert drove her to kill her husband.
That's a good theory, it's likely that happened.
I guess, we'll never know.
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