![]() Wanting Sophie to herself, she murders both of her husbands when they attempted to heal their wife's mind, and she stalks and terrorizes Sophie’s children Rebecca and Martin, eventually opting to kill them in utter defiance of Sophie's demands. As a ghost, she latches herself onto Sophie, enslaving her in the process. While there, she manipulates a depressed Sophie into becoming friends with her, and became physically abusive towards her, going as far as to break her legs when she heard that Sophie might be getting released. Complete Monster: Diana Walter, a sociopath since the day she was born, is sent to a mental institution after she played mind games with her father, ultimately causing him to kill himself.Those who prefer the short, think the film stretches the premise thin and think giving Diana a backstory at all is completely unnecessary and diminishes the mystery of her in the original short. Broken Base: Which is better? The feature length film or the original short? Those who prefer the movie, love how it expands upon the original concept and gives us entertaining and interesting characters.Couple that with her having been kept confined in the basement for most of her childhood due to her light allergy. When Sophie gets better, Diana loses that link, as evidenced by the Room Full of Crazy in the basement. Tragic Villain: A different interpretation of Diana is that what she told Sophie is true - she didn't actually die in that light experiment, but instead got shifted to a different plane of existence, and Sophie is now her only tie to the known world.Their implied relationship in the mental hospital has shades of this, especially when you consider Diana's very specific hatred of both Sophie's husbands to the point that she murders them both and particularly Diana scratching the father out of little Rebecca's drawing and adding herself next to Sophie instead. A potential explanation for the sheer lengths Diana goes through to keep Sophie all to herself. Stalker with a Crush: Combined with Psycho Lesbian.Another way to take the ending is that, while those with depression might think it's heroic to kill themselves and remove the immediate problem rather than be a burden on their loved ones as they try to help, said loved ones would prefer to solve the problem the hard way and keep the afflicted alive. Additionally, the movie sets up a method of hurting Diana with the blacklight, which would've been harder but likely effective. Rebecca and Martin resolve to save their mother despite multiple chances to leave her to Diana Rebecca's reaction to the suicide, which the film lingers on, is to scream and cry and Martin stares into the middle distance as he is powerless to help. Alternate Aesop Interpretation: The interpretation that Sophie was right in her decision doesn't take her children's actions and reactions into account.
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