So the aunt "hung herself" as we're told. In nearly every movie someone is hung, and that's it, we see them dangle and they're dead. And we accept that they're dead.
Yet in this movie, after that scene, the girl makes note of how the aunt couldn't have been hung, because she didn't empty her bowels after death. I've personally never seen anyone hung, but from everything you read about - if you get strangled or hung.... you shit yourself.
So we have decades of movies with people getting hung and not shitting themselves, so when we see it again it's not suspicious. However in this movie it's suspicious to a character because of exactly how we have grown used to seeing it in movies.
It would be like Jason Bourne knocking out ten good guys, which he does routinely in every film, then later in the movie they make a point to mention how everyone developed brain damage because it's insanely unhealthy to be knocked out for minutes at a time.
I can't think of another film other than the Handmaiden that has ever done something like this non-ironically. Obviously tropes have been lampshaded before, like The Other Guys directly calling out the walking-away-from-explosions thing, but this was played straight.
Almost like if the strangulation of Luca Brasi in the Godfather included 15 more seconds where the bad guys say, "He ain't dead boss, he fakin it. Greaseball ain't shit himself yet."
Submitted June 07, 2019 at 04:28AM by girafa http://bit.ly/2XuSwHP
