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Question about The Duke of Burgundy

I recently saw the film The Duke of Burgundy. I have one question about the plot.

In the middle of the night, Evelyn wakes up and hears her safeword Pinastri spoken by someone else. She opens the box Cynthia used to shut her in and sees a partly decomposed human corpse.

In the context of the story, was this real or something Evelyn imagined? JIP | Talk 22:14, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Without having seen the film, I can only comment generally that ambiguity is a common theme in film stories. The unreliable narrator is a common trope in movies, and film-makers will sometimes deliberately leave it vague whether some bit of plot is real, imagined, dreamed, hallucinated, etc. That is, while I don't know for certain, it is entirely possible the film-maker deliberately left it ambiguous, and did not intend for you to know one way or the other. --Jayron32 01:37, 12 August 2019 (UTC)