coincidence or necessity

Camylle 2022-04-22 07:01:15

As a horror film, the whole film is not particularly scary, the only scary place is probably the hood of the deformed boy. As his mother, if he changed the little boy into a better-looking headgear, the child would not be bullied like this.

For Simon's death, there can be two interpretations, one is an accident under various coincidences, and the other is an inevitable result caused by the games of the little ghosts. Do the ghost children in the movie really exist? It may also be Simon's own fantasy. The child discovers the secret room in the house by himself, fantasizes about his friend, and then gets trapped in it because of his mother's inadvertent. Of course, because the little ghosts played games and hid the heroine's favorite thing (Simon), but because the heroine found it too late, it is also a possibility that the child died.

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The Orphanage quotes

  • Simón: [while reading Peter Pan] Wendy grows old and dies?

    Laura: Wendy grows old, but Peter Pan takes her daughter to Neverland every year.

    Simón: Why doesn't Wendy go, too? If Peter Pan came to get me, would you come, too?

    Laura: No. I'm too old to go to Neverland, darling.

    Simón: How old are you?

    Laura: Thirty-seven.

    Simón: At what age will you die?

    Laura: What sort of question is that? Not for a long time, until you're very old.

    Simón: I won't grow old. I'm not going to grow up.

    Laura: Will you be like Peter Pan?

    Simón: Like my new friends.

    Laura: There's more than one?

    Simón: Six.

    Laura: They won't grow up either?

    Simón: They can't.

  • Aurora: Seeing is not believing. It's the other way around. Believe, and you will see.