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** The scene where Karin and Maria actively care for Agnes (giving her a bath, helping her sit up, reading to her, all the while having smiles on their faces) has been theorized to be Agnes' dream/fantasy since Karin and Maria are acting so unlike themselves in comparison to what is shown in the rest of the film.
** Could Agnes be just as self-absorbed as Karin and Maria beneath the seemingly pure surface? While Anna lavishes her with kind attention throughout her illness, Agnes isn't really shown to return it. The most damning thing is how Agnes doesn't make sure Anna is provided for after her death, which ultimately results in her unemployment. It's possible that Agnes thought her sisters would take care of Anna without her having to ask, but even knowing how that ended up, it's strange that Agnes isn't more careful with her servant of many years and with whom she had such a close relationship.
** Could Agnes be just as self-absorbed as Karin and Maria beneath the seemingly pure surface? While Anna lavishes her with kind attention throughout her illness, Agnes isn't really shown to return it. The most damning thing is how Agnes doesn't make sure Anna is provided for after her death, which ultimately results in her unemployment. It's possible that Agnes thought her sisters would take care of Anna without her having to ask, but even knowing how that ended up, it's strange that Agnes isn't more careful with her servant of many years and with whom she had such a close relationship.
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* HilariousInHindsight: [[WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}} Estranged Scandinavian sisters? The older one is aloof and averse to being touched?]]
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* JerkassWoobie: Karin is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who doesn't give a damn about her needs and can't have an actual conversation with her, which leads her to mutilate herself to avoid sex with him. Then she gets led on by Maria, only to be scorned by her just when Karin thought she had someone she could open herself to. While her behavior throughout the film is less than pleasant, it becomes more understandable once these circumstances are revealed.
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** Anna lost her daughter sometime in the backstory. She is treated callously by every other character except Agnes, so that when she dies, Anna gets summarily fired without any assurance of her future.
** Karin is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who doesn't give a damn about her needs and can't have an actual conversation with her, which leads her to mutilate herself to avoid sex with him. Then she gets led on by Maria, only to be scorned by her just when Karin thought she had someone she could open herself to.
** Karin is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who doesn't give a damn about her needs and can't have an actual conversation with her, which leads her to mutilate herself to avoid sex with him. Then she gets led on by Maria, only to be scorned by her just when Karin thought she had someone she could open herself to.
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** Anna lost her daughter sometime in the backstory. She is treated callously by every other character except Agnes, so that when she dies, Anna gets summarily fired without any assurance of her future.
** Karin is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who doesn't give a damn about her needs and can't have an actual conversation with her, which leads her to mutilate herself to avoid sex with him. Then she gets led on by Maria, only to be scorned by her just when Karin thought she had someone she could open herself to.future.
** Karin is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who doesn't give a damn about her needs and can't have an actual conversation with her, which leads her to mutilate herself to avoid sex with him. Then she gets led on by Maria, only to be scorned by her just when Karin thought she had someone she could open herself to.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Some people think that Maria and Karin's flashbacks never actually happened in reality and that it's just them daydreaming.
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** Some people think that Maria and Karin's flashbacks never actually happened in reality and that it's just themdaydreaming.daydreaming.
** Maria's attitude to Karin at the end: does it prove that Karin was correct in her assessment of Maria, or [[SelfFulfillingProphecy would Maria act differently if only Karin had been less awful to her]]?
** Some people think that Maria and Karin's flashbacks never actually happened in reality and that it's just them
** Maria's attitude to Karin at the end: does it prove that Karin was correct in her assessment of Maria, or [[SelfFulfillingProphecy would Maria act differently if only Karin had been less awful to her]]?
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* HilariousInHindsight: [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Estranged Scandinavian sisters? The older one is aloof and averse to being touched?]]
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* HilariousInHindsight: [[Disney/{{Frozen}} [[WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}} Estranged Scandinavian sisters? The older one is aloof and averse to being touched?]]
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** The PietaPlagiarism with Agnes and Anna might be the most famous image of the film, and even ended up on [[https://digitaltmuseum.se/021026479435/frimarke a Swedish stamp]] of iconic movie scenes.
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** The PietaPlagiarism with Agnes and Anna might be the most famous image of the film, and even ended up on [[https://digitaltmuseum.se/021026479435/frimarke a Swedish stamp]] as one of the 5 most iconic movie scenes.scenes in Swedish cinema.
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** The PietaPlagiarism with Agnes and Anna might be the most famous image of the film.
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** The PietaPlagiarism with Agnes and Anna might be the most famous image of the film.film, and even ended up on [[https://digitaltmuseum.se/021026479435/frimarke a Swedish stamp]] of iconic movie scenes.
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* SignatureScene: Karin's self-mutilation is considered something of a show-stealer if only because of how viscerally disturbing it is.
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** The PietaPlagiarism with Agnes and Anna might be the most famous image of the film.
** Karin's self-mutilation is considered something of a show-stealer if only because of how viscerally disturbing it is.
** The PietaPlagiarism with Agnes and Anna might be the most famous image of the film.
** Karin's self-mutilation is considered something of a show-stealer if only because of how viscerally disturbing it is.
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* HilariousInHindsight: [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Estranged Scandinavian sisters? The older one is aloof and averse to being touched?]]touched?]]
* SignatureScene: Karin's self-mutilation is considered something of a show-stealer if only because of how viscerally disturbing it is.
* TheWoobie:
** Agnes is dying slowly and agonizingly of cancer. All she wants is the love and care of her two sisters, who cannot bring themselves to give it to her, so that she is left alone and miserable in the dark with only her loyal maid for comfort.
** Anna lost her daughter sometime in the backstory. She is treated callously by every other character except Agnes, so that when she dies, Anna gets summarily fired without any assurance of her future.
** Karin is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who doesn't give a damn about her needs and can't have an actual conversation with her, which leads her to mutilate herself to avoid sex with him. Then she gets led on by Maria, only to be scorned by her just when Karin thought she had someone she could open herself to.
* SignatureScene: Karin's self-mutilation is considered something of a show-stealer if only because of how viscerally disturbing it is.
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** Agnes is dying slowly and agonizingly of cancer. All she wants is the love and care of her two sisters, who cannot bring themselves to give it to her, so that she is left alone and miserable in the dark with only her loyal maid for comfort.
** Anna lost her daughter sometime in the backstory. She is treated callously by every other character except Agnes, so that when she dies, Anna gets summarily fired without any assurance of her future.
** Karin is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who doesn't give a damn about her needs and can't have an actual conversation with her, which leads her to mutilate herself to avoid sex with him. Then she gets led on by Maria, only to be scorned by her just when Karin thought she had someone she could open herself to.
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* AwardSnub: Got screwed out of a Best Foreign Film Oscar nom by getting a Best Picture nom instead, and there was no way it was going to win that. Had it been nominated for Best Foreign Film, it would probably have won... '''probably''' being the key word here, because it managed to lose the equivalent Golden Globe to a tie between two other movies.
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* AwardSnub: Got screwed out of a Best Foreign Film Oscar nom by getting a Best Picture nom instead, and there was no way it was going to win that. Had it been nominated for Best Foreign Film, it would probably have won... '''probably''' being the key word here, because it managed to lose the equivalent Golden Globe to a tie between two other movies.movies.
* HilariousInHindsight: [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Estranged Scandinavian sisters? The older one is aloof and averse to being touched?]]
* HilariousInHindsight: [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Estranged Scandinavian sisters? The older one is aloof and averse to being touched?]]
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* AwardCategoryFraud: Dear folks at BAFTA, there is no way Ingrid Thulin (Karin) is just a supporting actress. Her character is just as important as the other two sisters and her development is put at the forefront more often than Maria's.
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* AwardCategoryFraud: Dear folks at BAFTA, there is no way Ingrid Thulin (Karin) is just a supporting actress. Her character is just as important as the other two sisters and her development is put at the forefront more often than Maria's.
* AwardSnub: Got screwed out of a Best Foreign Film Oscar nom by getting a Best Picture nom instead, and there was no way it was going to win that. Had it been nominated for Best Foreign Film, it would probably have won... '''probably''' being the key word here, because it managed to lose the equivalent Golden Globe to a tie between two other movies.
* AwardSnub: Got screwed out of a Best Foreign Film Oscar nom by getting a Best Picture nom instead, and there was no way it was going to win that. Had it been nominated for Best Foreign Film, it would probably have won... '''probably''' being the key word here, because it managed to lose the equivalent Golden Globe to a tie between two other movies.
