Now, maybe it's just me, but I don't really understand what she gained exactly from putting on that elaborate blind act. It didn't really seem to give her any advantage and only seemed to put her at a disadvantage. If it was meant to prevent Radic from guessing she was his old neighbour I would imagine it would only make it more likely for him to guess so since he knew of the neighbours blind daughter etc. I'm not sure the rest of her plan was up to snuff either. When she finally gets a chance to be alone with Radic to snuff him out she shows up armed with a dull swiss army knife. I do appreciate her commitment to the act, though, she doesn't drop the act even when she is "blindly" poking around with her swiss army knife trying to aim for the general's jugular or when said general is choking the living daylights out of her. Not sure what the reward was for keeping up the act at that point either, though.
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Reply by xrnzaaas
on June 10, 2018 at 3:49 PM
I think it's more likely that the traumatic experience made her regain the vision - it's still a really crappy ending. I just don't believe they would go with the insanely bad twist about faking it the entire time.
Reply by aholejones
on June 10, 2018 at 4:28 PM
Nah, she was faking it all the time. There are "tells" and scenes where her father is preparing her to feel to what her blind sister felt like training to play the piano with the blindfold etc. The movie just makes you think, or at least tries to make you think, that Natalie Dormer's character is the blind sister and the dead one is the one with the normal vision. They were hellbent on producing the big "twist", but they forgot to provide a reasonable reason or framework for the twist.
Reply by SydneyFife
on September 16, 2018 at 9:45 PM
Well, Radic does have an established interest in blind women, so posing as one makes it much easier to get close to him. I would assume that she only did it for the six months after she had moved in as Veronique's neighbour (rather than her entire life in Britain), but that's just a guess and is not corroborated in the movie, as far as I recall.
I do agree with @aholejones that these movie-makers fell in love with their own story twist and then threw out all good sense while trying to make it happen. And of course, as it inevitably goes when that happens, as a viewer you feel cheated at the end: In this case, consider just one scene as an example, the first time 'Sofia' is alone with Radic. She has the vial of poison with her, she is left alone with the two champagne glasses for a moment, and she accidentally drops the vial - okay, sure, that could happen in the heat of the moment. But then, instead of instantly reaching for it where it fell and poisoning his glass in a matter of seconds - as a seeing woman would be able to - we get to watch her paw ineffectually at the floor for a while, solely for the benefit of us, the audience, and solely intended to mislead us.
It's really too bad, because the movie definitely had some things going for it, established its atmosphere nicely and the lead is top notch in my book. But what can you do..
Reply by SydneyFife
on September 16, 2018 at 9:48 PM
By the way, can anybody explain WHY she leaves the police station after seeing that poster of Marc?