| 1 | * Sara is an incredibly tragic figure: |
| 2 | ** She spent her childhood at the [[OrphanageOfFear Ballarat orphanage]]. |
| 3 | ** Miranda, her only friend [[PseudoRomanticFriendship whom she all but worships]], disappears [[NeverFoundTheBody suddenly and without a trace]]. |
| 4 | ** She is bullied by [[SadistTeacher Mrs. Appleyard and Miss Lumley]]. |
| 5 | ** Her guardian [[PoorCommunicationKills forgets to pay her tuition and can't be contacted]], so she [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide rather than be sent back to the orphanage]]. |
| 6 | ** She is never reunited with [[LongLostRelative her brother]], who was [[OneDegreeOfSeparation in the same village the whole time]]. |
| 7 | ** All this and she's [[HarmfulToMinors only thirteen years old]]. That poor girl. |
| 8 | * It's hard not to feel sorry for Mrs Appleyard when she's having a nervous breakdown writing to inform the families of the missing girls. |
| 9 | * There's something particularly painful about the short scene where Mlle de Poitiers retrieves some of Miranda's underclothes and [[TryingNotToCry hurries out of the room]]. Sergeant Bumpher explains to Sara that they're for the bloodhound, in the final police search. [[DespairEventHorizon Sara turns and lies down on her bed in complete despair.]] |
| 10 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctRqIrzh0mA&feature=youtu.be&t=6m48s The classmate gradually breaking down in tears while singing "Rock Of Ages" during a church service]], although it was deleted in the ReCut. |
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