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"The Innocents" (1961)
Permlink Replies: 4 - Pages: 1 - Original Post: Jun 9, 2012 11:04 AM Original Post By: joefilmone

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Re: "The Innocents" (1961)
Posted: Jun 11, 2012 9:01 PM   in response to: ValentineXavier in response to: ValentineXavier
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The ghost are real at least in her mind. In the movie she seems to project her own repressed sexuality on the children- obvioulsy she is turned on by Quint.

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Posted: Jun 11, 2012 8:35 PM   in response to: joefilmone in response to: joefilmone
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Seems to me it's pretty much either/or. Either the ghosts are real, or she is insane. I lean towards thinking that the ghosts are real, because the boy was conjuring the dead, and he dropped dead when she seemed to exorcise him of the ghost. I don't think that her insanity would be the best explanation of those things. If the ghosts were real, I think she was sane throughout. But, seeing the child dead could easily have driven her insane. If so, we didn't get to see it, because the film ended.

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Posted: Jun 11, 2012 6:44 PM   in response to: ValentineXavier in response to: ValentineXavier
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I don't think the "ghost" have to be real for the story to work- but seriously wouldn't she have gone insane by the end.

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Posted: Jun 10, 2012 8:01 PM   in response to: joefilmone in response to: joefilmone
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I liked it quite a bit. I'll admit that I would have at least liked a few more hints as to what was real. There is some discussion of this film in the Spiral Staircase thread.

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"The Innocents" (1961)
Posted: Jun 9, 2012 11:04 AM
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Chilling psychological horror at it's finest.