| Philleh | 13th May 2010 08:43 AM |
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Originally Posted by 42ndStreetFreak
(Post 78867)
What? Last sentence did not even make sense.
If you're going to be smug with me, at least make sense while doing it.
I have no problem with 'out there'. I have a problem with nothingness and bullshit though.
Spoilers they be here:
When a film ends with a wife watching her husband, indeed welcoming her husband, being butchered all because of a single line "you let him go"...You need to damn well explain that line!!
Seems the entire film was hanging on this one line, and no one can agree on what the hell that meant from what I have read.
Let him go swimming?
Chased/argued him before the tsunami but let him go?
Let him go in the sense that he (despite slogging though jungle hell and spending countless amounts of cash!) accepted their son was dead?
WHAT?
Why did the old woman on the boat get so scared of the wife?
Why did the kids kill people?
Why did they kill the husband?
Why did they not kill the wife?
Was she a sudden mother figure? Well why? I saw no other women around being 'kept', so why this particular white woman?
Were the kids feral?
Were the kids spirits?
If they were it seems these spirits had physical form...so were they spirits or not?
And why JUST kids? No one mentioned that 'Vinyan' were JUST kid's spirits.
What was that damn huge as building stuck in the middle of the jungle?
Who were the old couple in the hut?
Was the son even there really, or a spirit, or not there at all?
If he was there, why? No other kids were white.
Where was the son supposedly drowned anyway?
Why would HIS spirit end up in a jungle with native spirits?
But hey...who cares about any of that!
Because it's so deep and meaningful and as such can ignore basically anything that 'lesser films' could never get away with.
| So you have issues with movies that let the audience make up their own conclusions?
Just because it's purposefully abstract, distant and ambiguous doesn't mean there isn't something there to be found. Like Don't Look Now, Twenty-nine Palms and Anti-Christ they are a different style of horror movies, ones that let the viewer decide what happened, it's not going to spell out everything/anything even for you - especially it's dialogue!
The ghosts, Vinyan, are those who have died terrible deaths and were unable to move on, she bought into the Thai myth while going through a mental breakdown. The ending is actually her killing her husband, we see it through her eyes as it were - at that moment she was her dead, bitter son.
You see bullshit, I see a fantastic and uncompromising piece of cinema. | 