The siblings kiss, then the scene cuts to black and there they are, waking up next to each other on a dirty mattress. And while the director thankfully spares us unnecessarily graphic scenes between Cathy and Chris (considering Shipka's age), she also kinds of just avoids the incest completely. I mean, I suppose there's no good way to convey that inherently creepy moment when a sexual relationship blossoms between a brother and sister ("So… you think of me, then?"), but Chow also failed to capture the sense of longing and girl-becomes-woman emotion of that moment. Not only was Cathy's fake wig distracting in the scene, so were the rigid acting and dialogue. The ninety-eight-page revision was re-titled Flowers in the Attic and she was paid a 7,500 advance. A moment of tenderness is meant to pass between them and - dear Lord, why is that hair so clearly fake? It sounds like metal shears are hacking into a whole head of straw. One of the most pivotal scenes in the book is when Chris chops Cathy's hair after it is mysteriously covered in tar. Much mythologized in his home country, the mid-twentieth-century Japanese writer Osamu Dazai remains little known in the West, even some seventy years after he was first translated into English.
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