"Kiss of the Spider Woman"-why are there fish outside Molina's mot!


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In the movie "Kiss of the Spider Woman" with William Hurt, Sonia Braga, and Raul Julia, after Molina (William Hurt's character) is released from prison, he prepares to leave his mother. He walks into her room. She is asleep. He walks to her bed and passes a window. OUTSIDE THE WINDOW ARE FISH! Why? It's like the window is an aquarium... but it's a window. The movie is shot in Brazil. Do they have fish windows in Brazil?


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In the movie "Kiss of the Spider Woman" with William Hurt, Sonia Braga, and Raul Julia, after Molina (William Hurt's character) is released from prison, he prepares to leave his mother. He walks into her room. She is asleep. He walks to her bed and passes a window. OUTSIDE THE WINDOW ARE FISH! Why? It's like the window is an aquarium... but it's a window. The movie is shot in Brazil. Do they have fish windows in Brazil?

Well, aside from the fact that they can have fish windows in Brazil (they have greatest variety of freshwater fish in the world and a host of tropical saltwater fishes as well) .. Could just be another element to blur the lines between fantasy and reality.

Could be something symbolic - like the nature of being in the fish bowl, of being watched, of being captive (imprisoned - jailed or by illness in the hospital or an old body, of being a misfit in society) - or a fish out of water. The movie has each man changing (a metamorphosis?) just enough to understand the other's tragic existence - like changing places with the fish in the bowl. Outside looking in and all that.

Maybe his mother is "bait". There's a line in the film when Molina is talking to the Warden about his release and he says "One thing sir, you can't catch a fish without bait. I need more food to set the hook."

Been a few years since I've seen it (I saw it in theatres when it was first released, too.. haunting).

pretty cool huh ?



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