I watched the movie and I enjoyed the parts of it I could understand. I have a real difficult time with foreign accents and I must have missed about 20-30% of the dialogue. I know who stabbed the victim but I’m not sure who poisoned him. Was it the stabbers mother or aunt?
Marc
You saw the poisoning. Remember when the maid went in to see him just before he was stabbed and she poured him some tea. That was the murder.
It was the mother - Helen Mirren - who did the poisoning.
Resurrection, since I just saw this movie and this thread is directly relevant:
[spoiler]I had a hard time following the movie because I was taking care of my 9 month old son at the time. I remember the scene you’re talking about, and kept it in my mind as possibly revelatory. That maid was the mother of the guy who was raised in an orphanage. She was mad at the head of the household because he mistreated her and her son. (He was the biological father.) But it’s strange–she brought in coffee first. Presumeably if she was going to poison him, she would have done it with the coffee. Did she drop the cup on purpose in order to poison the scotch? But why go through that when she could just poison the coffee? Did she drop it on accident? Then how was she able to poison the scotch? She’s just carrying the poison around in a pocket? I guess maybe…
I kind of thought it might have been Maggie Smith’s character. The sort of mysterious line at the end made me wonder if that was what I was supposed to be thinking. But my wife thinks she was just saying she didn’t want to have to have exposed various skeletons in various closets, including her own, and was subtly making sure the maid herself wouldn’t be exposing these secrets as well. I thought she was hinting that she was (and her maid knew she was) the poisoner, and that she didn’t want to be “hanged” based on anything she or her maid might say. My wife says no, though. Neither of us are quite convinced that the head maid character is the killer, though.[/spoiler]