We're so used to Loki's illusions that we forget that they can come from anywhere else, so when his hands passed through Frigga, my reaction was, "Omigod, she's just his conjuring, he's imagining what he would say to her--! No, wait, she can do that kind of magic too, she's the one who taught him, she's projecting herself because he's in a cell!" So either version takes a little mental leap of the watcher; I agree, it's one of the more subtle moments in the script. (I think either version can be taken from the scene as it plays, though. Though I've seen an excerpt that claims to be from the Thor TDW storybook that indicates it was Frigga sending the conjuring.)
And for the last conversation they had to be him telling her she wasn't his mother, man. Remember Finding Nemo? And the first thing Nemo says when he's reunited with his dad is, "Dad! Dad, I don't hate you!" And you realize--though Nemo's said NOTHING about this the entire movie--that that little fish has been carrying around the burden of knowing "I hate you" were his last words to his father. OH. A less subtle movie would have been playing on that, having Nemo muttering about that or flashing back to it. Twice, even. But that moment cut me so out of the blue that I wept.
And for the last conversation they had to be him telling her she wasn't his mother, man.
Remember Finding Nemo? And the first thing Nemo says when he's reunited with his dad is, "Dad! Dad, I don't hate you!" And you realize--though Nemo's said NOTHING about this the entire movie--that that little fish has been carrying around the burden of knowing "I hate you" were his last words to his father. OH. A less subtle movie would have been playing on that, having Nemo muttering about that or flashing back to it. Twice, even. But that moment cut me so out of the blue that I wept.
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