This movie was very thought provoking! Jacqueline’s relationship with death is the best part of the movie, her being fascinated with it and wanting to be in control of it was compelling to me. I absolutely loved the conversation between Jacqueline and Mimi outside of their apartments, Jacqueline was so eager to die but still anxious about it, and Mimi didn’t want to die but knew it was coming and was accepting. I thought it was brilliant! The ending scene was so chilling! When Mimi is walking down the hall singing as she’s about to leave, she hears a loud thump from Jacqueline’s room, she pauses for a second and then continues, then the movie ends. Jacqueline committing suicide made the most sense in my opinion, she wanted to die this whole movie, but when she chose to. When the satanist are trying to get her to drink the poison Jacqueline didn’t refuse because she didn’t want to die, she refused because she wanted to die on her own terms, like Gregory said in the beginning, she liked the idea that she could die at any moment she chose, she liked the control. So in the end that’s what she had, control.
I do wish this movie could’ve gone deeper into Jacqueline’s mental health and the satanic group, I feel like they barely touched on the satanist, and their beliefs. The last scene you see with them is the scene were Judd and Hoag are telling them a story about The Lord’s Prayer, and the satanist seem moved by their speech, but I want to know more about why they decided to practice their religion? And more about their feelings toward Jacqueline. Especially the relationship between Jacqueline and Frances, Frances seemed to be in love with Jacqueline. She talked about them having a more intimate relationship, and she was devastated that Jacqueline betray them, because that meant she had to die. I feel like if this film wasn’t made in the 1940s they would’ve dived deeper into their relationship. Because she really seemed to be in love with Jacqueline.
One part of this film I really hated, was the romantic storyline between Mary, Hoag, and Ward. It was very boring in my opinion, and didn’t add very much to the plot. It also felt very rushed and forced, how are Mary and Ward in love after knowing each other for a week? How is he so in love with her he wants to divorce Jacqueline? Also Hoag fell in love with Mary too, in such a short amount of time. Right before the ending scene, Ward confessed to Mary that he was in love with her, and Mary told him the feeling was mutual. In my opinion that was a dumb way to wrap up that plot line, but I also don’t think that should have even been a plot line to begin with. Also not to mention Mary is a teenager! She’s implied to be 18-19 but these are both men that are well into their 30s possibly even 40s, that’s so creepy!! This movie was very interesting and the plot had a lot more potential, I feel like if they weren’t so focused on the romance storyline it could have been 10 times better. I wish it could have gotten darker, and dived more into Jacqueline’s mind. Overall I loved this film, especially the ending
This movie was very thought provoking! Jacqueline’s relationship with death is the best part of the movie, her being fascinated with it and wanting to be in control of it was compelling to me. I absolutely loved the conversation between Jacqueline and Mimi outside of their apartments, Jacqueline was so eager to die but still anxious about it, and Mimi didn’t want to die but knew it was coming and was accepting. I thought it was brilliant! The ending scene was so chilling! When Mimi is walking down the hall singing as she’s about to leave, she hears a loud thump from Jacqueline’s room, she pauses for a second and then continues, then the movie ends. Jacqueline committing suicide made the most sense in my opinion, she wanted to die this whole movie, but when she chose to. When the satanist are trying to get her to drink the poison Jacqueline didn’t refuse because she didn’t want to die, she refused because she wanted to die on her own terms, like Gregory said in the beginning, she liked the idea that she could die at any moment she chose, she liked the control. So in the end that’s what she had, control.
I do wish this movie could’ve gone deeper into Jacqueline’s mental health and the satanic group, I feel like they barely touched on the satanist, and their beliefs. The last scene you see with them is the scene were Judd and Hoag are telling them a story about The Lord’s Prayer, and the satanist seem moved by their speech, but I want to know more about why they decided to practice their religion? And more about their feelings toward Jacqueline. Especially the relationship between Jacqueline and Frances, Frances seemed to be in love with Jacqueline. She talked about them having a more intimate relationship, and she was devastated that Jacqueline betray them, because that meant she had to die. I feel like if this film wasn’t made in the 1940s they would’ve dived deeper into their relationship. Because she really seemed to be in love with Jacqueline.
One part of this film I really hated, was the romantic storyline between Mary, Hoag, and Ward. It was very boring in my opinion, and didn’t add very much to the plot. It also felt very rushed and forced, how are Mary and Ward in love after knowing each other for a week? How is he so in love with her he wants to divorce Jacqueline? Also Hoag fell in love with Mary too, in such a short amount of time. Right before the ending scene, Ward confessed to Mary that he was in love with her, and Mary told him the feeling was mutual. In my opinion that was a dumb way to wrap up that plot line, but I also don’t think that should have even been a plot line to begin with. Also not to mention Mary is a teenager! She’s implied to be 18-19 but these are both men that are well into their 30s possibly even 40s, that’s so creepy!! This movie was very interesting and the plot had a lot more potential, I feel like if they weren’t so focused on the romance storyline it could have been 10 times better. I wish it could have gotten darker, and dived more into Jacqueline’s mind. Overall I loved this film, especially the ending
