The ending
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oneloveall — 16 years ago(February 22, 2010 03:45 AM)
Final shots of the overwrought cry-to-the-sky are up there with film's most pretentious outros. Admittedly some of it looks great (running towards the camera-Hello) but only serves to underscore the movies weak nature- artsy, eccentric shallowness.
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Bon_Jovi_chick — 15 years ago(November 13, 2010 01:28 PM)
Craig, I like that. The fact that he realised she wasn't a vampire could also be part of his anguish and maybe he also thought about his two friends because let's face it, he didn't cry over them when their bodies were found. Maybe seeing Dolphin's body was just one too many to push him.
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mc7791 — 14 years ago(August 15, 2011 05:12 AM)
the posts in this thread may explain the ending for me but I still do not understand this very strange and disturbing film. If other people love this film, fine. I dont. I have tried but really do not understand it. Until I looked at the cast list I didnt even know that Viggo was part of the cast. Course it has been a long time since I have seen this film. who was it made for?
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noraquick — 14 years ago(October 08, 2011 08:44 PM)
My belief is that Seth was the killer, not the guys in the car.
Note when we first meet them, Seth's father ignores them, and they don;t pay for the gas. This to me suggests they're not real.
Every time they take someone, Seth is the only witness. The guys in the car could represent his burgeoning hostility.
Viewing it in this light this film almost seems to be the tale of the childhood of a future serial killer.
Nothing concretely suggest Cameron has radiation poisoning (his symptoms are somewhat consistent, but also apply to anemia) so Dolphin could actually be a vampire.
I think Seth cries out at the end because in his fantasy,if he killed Dolphin, Cameron would be happy, but when Cameron isn't, his fantasy comes crashing in on itself.
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mysticaldragon16 — 14 years ago(December 16, 2011 12:55 PM)
I dont think Seth realized the guys in the car were the killers until dolphin was dead. He thought she was the killer, or he wanted to think that. But once she was dead, he knew for sure that the guys in the car were the killers, and that he had aided in the deaths of all three by not telling anyone about the guys in the car. He felt bad about them, and that killed his brothers love.
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scrapmetal7 — 11 years ago(April 10, 2014 06:12 PM)
Throughout most of this movie the boy had retreated into a fantasy to avoid dealing with the horrors around him. He was seeing things through this blurry filter, and when he let the woman get into the car with the killers, it was so that she, as a vampire, would kill all of them.
When they find her body, it shatters his fantasy, because now he knows that there is no way she could have been a vampire. Now the consequences are horrible and for the first time they are due to his actions. Not only is the woman not a vampire and now dead, his brother is devastated and may not recover.
Once the fantasy has shattered, the boy now feels the full weight of the horror of all of the film's events, from his father burning himself to death and on. Unable to escape this horror, he runs screaming into the night. -
marloweisdead — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 01:59 PM)
Can you expound? I could see the guys in the car not existing, after all he doesn't even mention them to anyone and they don't seem to be seen by anyone and they would probably have to be local if they truly existed, and therefore known. But Seth is 8, how did he kill Dolphin?
