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« on: January 02, 2017, 06:58:04 PM »That ending leaves a lot of questions unanswered, which of course is part of the fun.
Exactly, which is why I hope for us to have a conversation about what we all think.
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Looking at these beautiful captures, I wonder if Angelique had become fully embodied again at this point. She looks fully alive, not just a ghost, in these shots.
That's definitely one of the big questions I've been wanting to bring up. Recall that back in Scene #192 the script indicated:
... reveal Angelique, now more real than ever, as
she stares down at him.
Though in subsequent Scene 224 Angelique is described as -
... the mist-like ghostly figure of
Angelique.
- when she's moving in to attack Tracy. And that, along with Strack's reference in Scene 119 to the "strange death of Reverend Herridge" and the UPI reference to the eyewitness account that before the Jenkins' car crashed it "filled with thick white smoke" got me to thinking.
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It all begs the question of whether Angelique in NoDS was actually a Witch, or not. I personally feel that the story makes no sense unless she was actually a Mistress of the Dark Arts, but it's left open for each viewer to decide for themselves.
What if Angelique really was a witch in life - and what if one of her witchly powers was the ability for her astral self to turn mist-like to dispose of her enemies. What if it had nothing to do with Angelique's later existence as a ghost? That *might* explain how, *IF* Angelique has indeed become fully embodied again at the end of the film, she could still use her smoke/mist-like astral self to dispense with Alex and Claire...