According to the NYorker review, that is a scene in the book, but with one dead girl, so I'd assume it was not supposed to be a hallucination.
Wash: I mean, I'm the one she swore to love, honor and obey. Mal: Listen... She swore to obey? Wash: Well, no, not...
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megan walker - Mar 11, 2008 8:24:47 pm PDT #4253 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Jessica - Mar 12, 2008 4:15:37 am PDT #4254 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Well, at that point, we're in FictionLand anyway, so I think it's not so much a hallucination as a...I don't know. A literary device?
It's one of those moments that I think illustrates exactly why this movie was a valiant effort at adaptation, but fails on some very fundamental level to make the transition from page to screen. I can't remember the last time I spend so much of a movie thinking, "Wow, I bet that worked really well in the book," and so little thinking "Wow, this is working really well in this movie."
Amy - Mar 12, 2008 4:33:51 am PDT #4255 of 10000
Because books.
I ... couldn't finish the book. And man, I tried. It's a fabulous story, and I usually like McEwan, but it was so incredibly (read: boringly, self-indulgently) dense and slooooow. I only got about a third of the way through.
Steph L. - Mar 12, 2008 5:27:02 am PDT #4256 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Well, at that point, we're in FictionLand anyway, so I think it's not so much a hallucination as a...I don't know. A literary device?
Oh, yeah. I didn't think about that.
So, anything within the movie that is NOT from Briony's direct POV is probably fiction-within-the-movie?
That makes my head hurt.
Jessica - Mar 12, 2008 5:35:12 am PDT #4257 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
anything within the movie that is NOT from Briony's direct POV is probably fiction-within-the-movie?
Everything that happens after Robbie goes to jail is Briony's fictionalized account, IIRC. There are "real" facts sprinkled in, but the story is entirely told from her novel.
Steph L. - Mar 12, 2008 5:36:24 am PDT #4258 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
There are "real" facts sprinkled in
Like her becoming a nurse?
lisah - Mar 12, 2008 5:48:37 am PDT #4259 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate
Like her becoming a nurse?
I think that was real. I feel like I read the book as everything past his real death was fictionalized but before that was real. It's been years though and I'd have to reread.
Steph L. - Mar 12, 2008 5:50:38 am PDT #4260 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I feel like I read the book as everything past his real death was fictionalized
Well, I remember that in the interview at the end, she said that she had to get first-hand accounts of Dunkirk from people who were there, so I can see how that would have been fictionalized (i.e., even though it was pre-Robbie's death).
Okay. Making more sense now.
Sue - Mar 12, 2008 1:21:59 pm PDT #4261 of 10000
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Kevin - Mar 12, 2008 1:27:58 pm PDT #4262 of 10000
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
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