Monday, December 4, 2006

Ambiguous scenes - clever

I like clever.

This week's Desperate Housewives was a rerun. (November is over, after all.) But a rerun of the episode in which we thought we saw Orson Hodge, DDS, kill his wife. We see her panicking, trying to leave the house without his knowledge. We see her neighbor lady visit, and witness Dr. Hodge cleaning the house with rubber gloves, and Mrs. Hodge's parrot saying "Orson, no! Orson, no! No, Orson!" over and over. And we see an empty bird cage put out by the trash.

And the neighbor lady returns later to warn that Mrs. Hodge is dead. But while we were lead to believe that, this ambiguous scene didn't actually mean that.

Like The Sixth Sense, only different. Taking months to unwrap instead of hours.

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