Forbidden Games Excerpt 2: Paulette buries her dog; the decision to make a cemetery; Paulette learns her prayers; Michel punished (4’12”).

Excerpt 2
 

 Questions

1. What symbolic interpretation can we give to the “religious” burial that Paulette gives to her dog?
2. The signification of the creation of the cemetery by the children?
3.

What do the prayers add to the religious theme of the film?

4.

Why does Michel’s father punish him for making crosses? What does this add to the religious themes?