Re: "Plain Truth" Ending

From: kathycarp (kathycarp_at_comcast.net)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:27:52 -0700

I thought it was an OK movie, but as I anticipated, the beauty of her
writing did not show up in the film. Also, so much was left out of the
movie, things that made it such a good book... foreshadowing, etc. Also,
they changed the location of the birth, which I don't understand. In the
book she had the baby in the barn. It described the birth, and how she
reached up on the wall and took the shears and cut the cord. Why change it
to by the pond? In the book there was much more about Katie's dead sister,
and about her relationship with her Amish "intended".

I wish they would make it a 2-part or how ever many parts it takes to tell
the story exactly as the book tells it. 

-- 
Kathy
www.ambergriscaye.com/villadelsol
"CConerly" <CConerly@comcast.net> wrote in message 
news:2sg7soF1lbiefU1@uni-berlin.de...
> She explained to the attorney that she only confessed to the elders 
> because
> that is what is expected of her, but she held to her story that she never
> had a baby. As the story progressed, it was revealed that she had a 
> sister,
> who she was very close to, who drowned and a brother who was 
> excommunicated
> from the family because he decided to go to college, and the father would
> not allow even the mention of his name. The mother would allow the girl to
> go visit with her brother in town and lied to the father about where she
> was. On her visits, this girl met a college boy, fell in love, had sex, 
> and
> did have the baby. However, she did not kill it. She only remembered going
> down to the pond and giving birth before she fell asleep. When she awoke,
> the baby was gone, and she thought it had all been a dream.
>
> An expert witness hired by the attorney determined that the baby had a
> serious infection which had been passed from the mother and could have 
> been
> the cause of death, and he testified to this in court. He said that the 
> blue
> marks on the baby's mouth could have been caused by the mother pressing 
> the
> baby against her collarbone. The girl took the stand to testify on her own
> behalf during trial and told the jury that she did not mean to kill her 
> baby
> but that she caused his death and should be punished. Of course, the DA
> jumped on that, but her attorney had her clarify what she meant was that 
> she
> did not mean to pass on this deadly infection to her baby.
>
> The jury found the girl guilty, not of murder but of negligence, which was 
> a
> misdemeanor. The judge sentenced her to 3 years of probation. At the end 
> of
> the movie when the attorney was at the farm packing her things, the mother
> came in to thank her and gave her what the attorney thought was a gift. 
> When
> she unrolled it, it was the shears that had been used to cut the umbilical
> cord. The mother asked her to take it away from there. She went on to
> confess that she was the one who killed the baby because she could not 
> stand
> the idea of losing another child. She had lost the one daughter to 
> drowning
> and the son because of his decision to attend college. This girl was the
> only child she had left, and she knew that the father would banish her as
> well if this child was born. No one else but the attorney knew the truth.
> And that was the end of the movie. Oh, and the attorney hooked up with the
> psychiatrist (who she did not know had divorced 6 months previously).
>
> I hope I didn't forget anything substantial. If anyone can think of
> anything, please feel free to add it.
>
> Cindy C.
>
>
> "Bambi C." <blcc324@epix.net> wrote in message
> news:4Cx8d.7409$17.1528674@news1.epix.net...
>> I missed the second hour of this movie last night.  The last thing I saw
> was
>> the girl confessing to the elders of the church.  Would some kind person
>> tell me how the movie ended???
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Bambi C.
>>
>>
>
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