I wasn't surprised he went that far: he's human, and she's sex incarnate, and he's been rapping his libido sternly over the knuckles with a Bible for years. And I think it's important for the story that his reaction to Summerisle is not only outrage, but temptation. But if he had had sex with her, yes, as xterminal says, he would have become a different character altogether.
I loved the subtle clue when he was served canned vegetables and was told that there were no apples.
Yes. Because at that point you can't tell if they're just jerking him around (and it adds another layer of not-quite-rightness to an already peculiar reception, where everyone smiles but no one will tell him a thing), but in retrospect it's important. There was very little extraneous weirdness in this film. Lots of weirdness, absolutely, but plot-justified weirdness.
I was a little disappointed when the movie ended immediately after the burning of the Wicker Man--I really wanted to know if the next year's harvest was going to be good as Summerisle promised. I also wanted to know what would happen when Howie was missed.
I like the open-endedness, particularly since our viewpoint for the entire film has been Sergeant Howie: it would make less sense if we were to see a whole epilogue after him. But there's no way not to wonder what happened with the harvest.
Well, there's not much I can add to this really great post on the movie, but it makes me doubly glad I wrested it from yesterday.
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I wasn't surprised he went that far: he's human, and she's sex incarnate, and he's been rapping his libido sternly over the knuckles with a Bible for years. And I think it's important for the story that his reaction to Summerisle is not only outrage, but temptation. But if he had had sex with her, yes, as
I loved the subtle clue when he was served canned vegetables and was told that there were no apples.
Yes. Because at that point you can't tell if they're just jerking him around (and it adds another layer of not-quite-rightness to an already peculiar reception, where everyone smiles but no one will tell him a thing), but in retrospect it's important. There was very little extraneous weirdness in this film. Lots of weirdness, absolutely, but plot-justified weirdness.
I was a little disappointed when the movie ended immediately after the burning of the Wicker Man--I really wanted to know if the next year's harvest was going to be good as Summerisle promised. I also wanted to know what would happen when Howie was missed.
I like the open-endedness, particularly since our viewpoint for the entire film has been Sergeant Howie: it would make less sense if we were to see a whole epilogue after him. But there's no way not to wonder what happened with the harvest.
Well, there's not much I can add to this really great post on the movie, but it makes me doubly glad I wrested it from yesterday.
I'm very glad!