Finally saw the movie tonight....it was dark....and I'm somewhat squeamish, so some of the violence had me squirming in my seat...Vidal's mouth....ugh...
I wasn't quite sure about whether or not the girl lived on in the faerie world or not. I'd like to think that she did. As to dying with sins unconfessed, who's to say she died? If the faerie reality was real, then at heart, she's not even human, so where would she go?
I too, liked the doctor's line. That took some real courage.
As to whether or not it was real, didn't Mercedes see the chalk door she'd drawn on the wall, when she came to her room to look for her? I suppose it could have been just her, but I'm not sure. And the mandrake seemed to have an effect on the mother.
In the theatre I was in, a man and his wife got up right after Mercedes was captured, and started yelling to the audience that we should all leave the room, because the movie was disgusting, with women and children getting hurt, and wasn't it enough with all of them being hurt in the U.S. and such. His wife tried to pull him out, and he turned around, and then said something about everyone in the theatre being twisted if we stay and watch...then he left. Kind of an...interesting encounter.
Overall, the movie was excellent. Although there were warnings, I still think it was more violent than I'd anticipated. But the the way they treated the faerie was pretty cool. I found it much more interesting than, say, Tinkerbell.
Banshee
. WHen thinking about who deserved what, though, it's probably worth thinking about what the children deserved; they, after all, were the ones who got to grow up under fascist rule. It's also worth thinking about the role of other countries in the war, very complex roles that had a tremendous amount to do with the fascist victory.
