Question about what happened to the wife
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mnpack110 — 18 years ago(May 05, 2007 12:14 PM)
I missed a large chunk of the movie but saw the beginning and the end. I'm not looking to be filled in on everything but I was left with one question. I could not figure out how she really died. When he figured out that she survived the bus crash and made it to the village, he then went there. He talked to the tribe and what they said was interpreted to him. It was something like, "She made it to the village and was okay. Until the river took her back again." Then they said something like, "They were unable to save her body but they saved her soul."
So, what really happened to her? How did she die? If anyone can help me out here, I would really appreciate some answers! -
Jeems1 — 18 years ago(May 12, 2007 05:30 PM)
Where was her body? Surely he went all that way to find her, surely finding her daugher was good but what about her body? Did he not want it back? Did he not even feel like asking the tribespeople where it was?
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taylorje — 15 years ago(January 20, 2011 08:49 AM)
Of course he wanted her body, but he didn't know which grave was hers. To find it, he would have had to dig them all up. That probably wouldn't have been allowed. None of them were embalmed or had caskets. It's likely, after 6 months, nature would have taken its course.
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kiphk — 18 years ago(May 12, 2007 05:34 PM)
I just watched it on BBC 1 with the Ceefax subtitles. And it indeed said she had broken her back and that she was dying. And they could not svae her body, but they did save her soul (the baby).
And I am not sure how much body there would be to retrieve after months in the jungle ground. Why disturb the dead? It looked like she had her grave in a really beautiful spot. I would have left her there too. -
BrightEyes_PR — 18 years ago(December 23, 2007 08:08 PM)
Actually she DID know she was pregnant. Before she went Joe and her were arguing about that cause he didn't want her to go because of her pregnancy, but she reminded him they talked about that before, saying something about teaching thei baby about their values. That's when he said they were being naive back then. So, yeah she DID know, she just wanted to teach their unborn child about their values.
They say it's hard being a woman in a man's world, but try being a man in
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BrightEyes_PR — 18 years ago(December 25, 2007 07:40 PM)
Oh hon I have no clue either.I was just lettin u know what she said in the movieMe? I thought the same thing- "Why the &^(% is she going if she's pregnant?"
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denise1234 — 12 years ago(December 18, 2013 03:52 AM)
MysticYoYo^
"She had no business being in the jungles of South America if she knew she was pregnant."
Yep.
Leaving her hubby, leaving her young patients, and putting herself and her unborn child in a precarious situation because they need HER and blah-blah VALUES!
Stupid, vain, shortsighted, and careless.
"I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book." ~ Bradbury -
ezzy666 — 12 years ago(December 18, 2013 02:13 PM)
She had no business being in the jungles of South America if she knew she was pregnant.
Thousands of women have healthy pregnancies and babies in South America, some without doctors. She was a doctor and traveling with other doctors. Accidents are not predictable, there are plenty of pregnant women who die or miscarry in accidents in the US.
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denise1234 — 12 years ago(December 23, 2013 03:45 AM)
ezzy666^
Are you seriously saying she went from a safe environment to an equally safe environment?
Intentionally doing medical outreach in the Amazonian jungle, where she was calling on a field phone that lost reception from a canvas roof only structure where the rains were so bad that the roads washed out and she had to be put on a bus going where she didn't even know and then traveling on something that wasn't even a paved road and where a mudslide hit the bus, etc.
Not to mention the risk of contracting Yellow Fever, Malaria, Cholera, Chagas, etc.
Compared to where she left from?
I think not.
"I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book." ~ Bradbury -
lgregg2010 — 18 years ago(February 07, 2008 08:05 PM)
the villagers said that his wife made it back to their village, but she was dying, and that they could not save her body (meaning she died physically) but they saved her soul (meaning they saved the baby she was carrying which is a part of her) Hope that helps.
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hallenbeck3 — 18 years ago(April 03, 2008 11:48 PM)
actually what she said was that they talked about their values and had to stick to them. She didn't say she was going to teach them to the unborn baby just that their values were important enough to her not matter what.
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