Can someone explain the ending?
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eYeDEF — 16 years ago(August 01, 2009 10:45 AM)
I admit, I've just watched it for the first time and haven't spent too much time contemplating deeper meanings but can someone explain the bizarre ending?
So Cameron faces off with his arch-nemesis, and emerges in the body of his brother and enemy Darryl Revok after an intensive telekinesis battle of the minds. What's up with that? Or is that Revok pretending to be Cameron in order to fool Kim?
In any case, WTF is up with that ending?
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Herreken — 16 years ago(October 17, 2009 03:53 PM)
Ha ha yeah
I know it was supposed to surprise the audience, but they could have done it in other ways. For example, he could have just been off camera then stepped into the scene or something.
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betel-geuse — 16 years ago(October 17, 2009 05:14 PM)
Ha, I agree, tonight was the first time I'd seen the film. But I figured that he was going to have possessed his brother. Simply because the girl was still alive, I knew they would have used that twist. But I did not see the hiding under a coat coming. As you said he could've been off camera or simply behind a wall.
Now are any of the sequels worth watching and do any of them have the more stylized effects, heads exploding, peoples eyes turning white etc? For these types of films I like the more visually graphic type of elements.
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Herreken — 16 years ago(October 17, 2009 05:33 PM)
I watched the The New Order and The Takeover a few days ago. I had never seen them before. I thought the second one was worth watching but the third wasn't too good. The same director worked on both films but the third felt a little silly.
The effects are certainly better. I don't recall the number of exploding heads on the second one but there is at least one. I believe the third has three.
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RobBase086-1 — 15 years ago(April 27, 2010 07:22 PM)
That was great to see Cameron winning! I was glad that Revok was killed off in the end.
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lorddeseiz — 16 years ago(December 19, 2009 08:22 AM)
in case you didnt notice, Camerons body got burned down in the battle, but his mind was still alive and kicking, so with lack of other bodies around he took possession of Revoks body (notice the eyes turning inward and getting all white). it even zoomed in on revoks eyes at the end to show the blue eyes from Cameron. Revok had brown eyes.
And about the cowering under the coat. I think he was sorting his mind back to normal and taking control of the foreign body, he just made a transisition from one body to another while destroyin the other bodys soul. Must be pretty exhausting ?
Any last words ?
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arizonamelanie — 15 years ago(June 01, 2010 12:32 AM)
Just wrote this on another thread. The first couple of times I watched the film, I thought it was obvious that Cameron beat Revok. The eyes, the voice (which I could swear is Lack's, not Ironside's), what he says, the sealed up hole in his head. And the most telling was Kim sensing Cameron was still alive. But I just saw it again recently, and I think the ending is supposed to be ambiguous.
The reason I say that is because it was Revok's idea for them to be joined, not Cameron's. Revok says, "Okay we're gonna do it the scanner way. I'm gonna suck your brain dry. Everything you are is gonna become me. You're gonna be with me Cameron, no matter what." Revok wasn't trying to kill Cameron, he wanted Cameron inside of him (which is what happened). Also, Kim's reaction (she just kind of stares at him) might be an indication that she has some doubts.
Plus, the scar being gone doesn't tell us who won the battle. I think the "hole" was how Cameron got into Revok. Remember in the footage of Revok that Cameron watched: the psychiatrist asks what he put over the hole (the patch w/ the eye drawn on it) and he says it's a door, but he drew the eye over it so "they" wouldn't know it was a door. I'm thinking the hole was the "door" that let Cameron enter Revok, but that doesn't tell us who is really in control.
Truewhy would Revok even bother saying anything to Kim? But I figure it's like him hiding under a coat - doesn't make much sense, it's just done for effect.
Ultimately I think Cameron probably did win (too bad, I liked Revok better), but like I said, I don't think we're supposed to be totally sure. -
Bree_33 — 11 years ago(September 24, 2014 01:19 PM)
Revok wasn't trying to kill Cameron, he wanted Cameron inside of him (which is what happened).
The Exorcist reference?
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