Colin Jacobson
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joshEH said:For me, even though I greatly admire this movie, now that I think about it more, the most bizarre aspect for me was the Murph character, who seems positively psychotic in spots, like when she needs Affleck to leave the house so she can snoop around, so she BURNS HIS CROPS DOWN, effectively killing her brother's livelihood.
Maybe, "Hey, bro, can you run out for some milk?" might've worked, too.
I think you misunderstood. Murph wasn't trying to get Tom out just so he could snoop - she was trying to get him to leave the house/farm PERIOD because the blight was killing his family. He refused to go so she had to take an extreme measure to drive him off the land...