Towards the end of the film, Rusty is outside fixing a fence, while he is in the process of trying to remove a nail from the wood, his hammer breaks and he reaches into his tool box for another one. When he grabs the other hammer and sees the blood on it. He takes downs stair in the cellar or basement area and washes the blood off. In the mist of that, he hears his wife say "I DID IT." He looks at her with disbelief as she begins to explain her reasoning. She tell Rusty, it had to be done, it was the only way there family could be normal again. In her mind, she was getting rid of the evil temptress that had interrupted their marriage.
This scene is important towards Rusty's guilt, because he is the cause of this whole ordeal. In his mind, if he would have never cheated on his wife, the she would have never had to murder Carolyn Polhemus. In my opinion she was trying to save punish him for his infidelity, by leaving the glass with his fingerprints all over it. She wanted him punished, but he was still the only man she ever loved. When you look in Rusty's face, you see the guilt from the decision he made. He caused his wife to murder to another human being for his foolish mistake.
I choose this photo, because it shows how Rusty's wife was beside him the during the entire trial and after his affair. In her eyes, you can see a blank look as if she can't believe he wasn't found guilty. It is a personal scene and the camera is close and leaves very little room to move.
Of course, the"I did it!" is ironic because she is talking about a job she got, and he is thinking she is talking about the murder. Check in a grammar book for the subjunctive mood.
ReplyDelete1. If he HAD never cheated on his wife, she would never have murdered Caroline.
What about the character proxemics between Rusty and his wife and the barrier between them?