![]() She replies "No" with a smile, with a sense of relief that she did the right thing by dying and having her friend live her life. At that moment, Diana dreamed the adult life she thought she would have if she let Maureen die and Emma was the child she would have had if she had not gone through the abortion.Īt the anniversary, Diana is asked once again if she is a survivor. In response, Diana agreed to be killed and was shot by Michael, who then killed himself. Though Maureen had offered herself first, the shooter questioned why Diana should not die. She and Maureen had been forced to decide who would survive when confronted by the shooter, Michael Patrick ( John Magaro). It is revealed what occurred fifteen years earlier in the washroom where Diana left the flowers. Emma appears before Diana's eyes for a moment but then vanishes almost as soon as she has appeared. She drives there and walks through the woods, shouting out her daughter's name. At that moment she gets a call from Emma's school informing her that her daughter is missing and that a pink piece of clothing has been found in the woods. She smiles and walks inside, first leaving flowers on some desks and then moving on to the rest rooms where one of the shootings took place. As she enters the school she is asked whether she is one of the survivors. ![]() Diana drives in front of the school several times until she finally decides to stop and bring in some flowers. The day of the 15th anniversary of the shooting, a memorial is held at the school. Instead, Diana is remembering the complications she had following an abortion in her high school days. In reality, she has not been hurt by the accident. On her way to the hospital she imagines that blood is escaping from her body. She hesitates about confronting him and instead remains in the middle of the street where she is hit by a pickup truck. They leave the parlor abruptly and as they are about to get into the car, Diana sees her husband with another woman. At an ice cream parlor, Diana asks Emma not to hide any more as she is always doing Emma responds to her mother's reproaches with the claim that Diana hates her. One day she gets a call from Emma's school, where the nuns running the school complain about Emma's behavior. However, Diana continues to feel guilty about something that does not let her sleep. She has a daughter, Emma (Gabrielle Brennan), and she is married to the professor who once gave a speech in her school about the power of visualization, how one can shape one's own future in this way. She leads an apparently normal life as an art history university professor. The film mostly focuses on Diana's adulthood ( Uma Thurman). Then the two teens are involved in a Columbine-like shooting incident at their school and are forced to make an impossible choice. While awaiting the final days of high school in the lush springtime, Diana tests her limits with sex and drugs as her more conservative friend Maureen ( Eva Amurri) watches with concern. Imaginative, impetuous, and wild Diana McFee ( Evan Rachel Wood) cannot wait for her adult life to begin. It was released on April 18, 2008, and revolves around a survivor's guilt from a Columbine-like event that occurred 15 years previously, which causes her present-day idyllic life to fall apart. The film stars Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood. The screenplay was adapted by Emil Stern from the Laura Kasischke novel of the same name. The Life Before Her Eyes is a 2007 American thriller film directed by Vadim Perelman.
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