film: Swimming POOL. help explain. (spoilers)

[n2ofiend]

Swimming POOL. help explain. (spoilers)

Just watched Swimming Pool. I thought it was okay but couldnt figure it out.
Can someone please help explain what the hell happened.

spoilers below.
I dont want to ruin for anyone.















What the hell happened. All of a sudden the girl turns to be very young at the end. The movie seemed to make sense up until this part. I cant figure this out one bit. Was some of the film taking place in the writers head??? Did the murder actually happen???

 

[dyscotopia]

yes, you got it. don't underestimate yourself. the film's a bit of a tease. i liked it though. what you see through most of the film is the novel the lead character went away to write which is loosely based on events that actually occured and people that actually exist. the real mystery is which parts we see are true and which parts are part of her fiction. and that's left up to the viewer to decide.

i just watched a mexican movie called "lucia lucia" which also features a writer in the lead (but she write children's books) and it does some of the same things, but at least she tells you every once in a while that she's lying or embellishing the store. anyways both of these films feature fairly sensual roles from actresses that aren't exactly young. let's give it up for sexy, older women.

 

[AmorRoark]

I thought this film was... interesting. I saw this last summer and I wrote in my journal what my friend had to say about it:

"I bet if you watched swimming pool like 5 times you could catch little things and the movie would make perfect sense, but the problem is the sex scenes are so fucked up and disturbing that no one ever will, so no one will ever know what's really going on."

 

[brothermarcus]

the take i had was a bit more supernatural with the flick... i felt that the writer was channeling the story from her publisher's deceased wife, only assuming that the nubile woman at the house was his daughter... i think the publisher knows that the spirit of his wife is in the home, which is why he never visits. he recognized his dead wife's writing- which explains his reaction to the novel, and her reaction to meeting his real daughter is true to her realizing that she was not staying at the house with his daughter.

i love the flick though, great indie with a powerful female lead.

 

[StuffedTiger]

What the filmmaker was trying to do with this film was actually very simple. Everything that happened at the house happened entirely in her head, she was actually staying with a perfect angel of a girl and simply made up julie out of the part of herself that she denies.

and her reaction to meeting his real daughter is true to her realizing that she was not staying at the house with his daughter.

If you watch carefully I think you'll see that the main character isn't suprised when she looks into her publisher's office and sees his innocent daughter. This is further driven home when they show the innocent daughter waving to the main character upstairs from the swimming pool, proving that she was really there.

I love both ways of looking at the movie and this is the best movie I've seen in years. There's something about it that I just love.