From the 1957 novel “Bunny
Lake is Missing” this is the 1965 film about an American mother who had just moved
to England with her brother and is now in a panic to find her missing four year old
daughter Bunny. Whom, she claims to have dropped off on the first day of
school, except there’s no sign of her anywhere. The teachers have no record of
her; the children hadn’t seen or heard of her, and when they called for the
police they didn’t even have a picture of her to show them.
Now a peculiar thing happens when the police arrive at the
mother’s home. They weren’t able to find anything that belonged to the missing
child. No toys, no books, and no clothes it didn’t even look like a child was
there.
Bunny’s mother was in
a panic because now the police began to wonder if there was even a real missing
child, and if there was who took her? Could it have been Wilson the eccentric
landlord, whom seemed to have a thing for Bunny’s mother and isn’t too crazy
about cops. Or could it have been one of the head mistresses of the school Bunny
was supposedly to be at? An elderly retired woman living in a room above the
school, who liked the children to come up and see her so she could ask them
about their dreams and document them. Maybe it was the school’s cook, who said
that she would watch the girl ten minutes before school started. But, then
leave because of some criticism on her cooking. What about the brother? He
seems to have an unusually close relationship with his sister, and he was the
one willing to pay for an abortion to be done for his unmarried pregnant
sister. Or maybe Bunny really doesn’t
exist? Bunny could have been imagined by the so called mother, who once (when
she was child) had an imaginary friend named Bunny. So many possibilities but
only one answer, what do you think happened?
