Why does Justine lie?
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Becks81 — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 11:21 AM)
Some people say that she did it to save the boy, but wouldnt he get killed for helping her in the first place anyway? i certainly wouldnt put it past them to kill a boy, seeing what they were capable of.
The tribe should be killed, even if it was their "nature" to kill and they were just "animals"; with that logic, its justifiable to kill them, because of Darwinist "survival of the fittest" - we have the guns, we take your land. After all, the tribe didnt think twice about using weapons against the prisoners.
And to say the others would have died for nothing if she gave up the tribe? If I was killed by cannibals I thought was worth protecting, I would definately want Justine to rat them out and get the wiped of the surface of the earth. -
jbaker1-2 — 3 years ago(February 24, 2023 03:01 PM)
would you kill all wild animals in amazon because they can eat a human? this is their natural life. if a tiger hunt a human nobody call it a killer. she noticed that and let them live there. this is nature rule.
You can't reason with a right-winger. They barely understand "sit", "fetch" and "who's a good boy", let alone anything more complex.
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Synetech — 10 years ago(January 25, 2016 11:07 PM)
It seems that everybody else who responded either did not know why she lied or completely forgot the scene where Alejandro told them the truth. That scene was there specifically to pave the way for the twist ending.
Alejandro explained that they were not in fact saving the village at all, that they were there simply to make a public spectacle to delay one company from razing the village long enough to allow a competing company to beat them to it. The reason that he went along with it, knowing full-well that it was futile was not to save that village, but as a photoshoot as he said, to raise awareness and gain fame for the group so that they could make a difference with other causes for which they actually stand a chance.
She lied because she realized that if she told the truth, people would be less upset about a village of primitive, barbaric savages being wiped out, and things would go back to normal (and the group would probably even get ridiculed and discredited for trying to save them). However, if she made them out to be gentle recluses who saved her, then there would be a lot more outrage over the incident, and the group could continue to fight for other causes more effectively.
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nuttallr — 10 years ago(January 26, 2016 08:31 AM)
It's really simple actually. There's 3 reasons why she lies. In no particular order.
- The boy saves her life, she owes him.
- By lying she saves that section of the Amazon which is what the rest of the group gave their lives for.
- If she tells the truth that also includes telling the truth about leaving that guy behind, making her look bad and possibly facing legal action from his family.
Why is this so difficult to understand?
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ScorpionTDC — 9 years ago(April 25, 2016 09:05 AM)
- If she tells the truth that also includes telling the truth about leaving that guy behind, making her look bad and possibly facing legal action from his family.
I tried to rescue him but cannibals attacked me and I needed to save myself.
Oops, legal problems gone.
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- If she tells the truth that also includes telling the truth about leaving that guy behind, making her look bad and possibly facing legal action from his family.
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rageinblack — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 08:18 PM)
- If she tells the truth that also includes telling the truth about leaving that guy behind, making her look bad and possibly facing legal action from his family.
I don't think so, she could've just said that she ran for her life, which she did. Turning back, or wasting time to save him would be still too risky for her, given the fact of what an a$$hole he was. Besides even if eventually the he survived and told people about how she left hime there to die, first, he doesn0t have any evidence, second, who will people rather believe, a notorious local a$$hole, or a good innocent girl from outside? Oh and not to mantion what would Justine have to say about Alejandro. Alejandro was an such a majestic a$$hole, really.
- If she tells the truth that also includes telling the truth about leaving that guy behind, making her look bad and possibly facing legal action from his family.
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dhendo — 9 years ago(July 23, 2016 06:16 PM)
It's really simple actually. There's 3 reasons why she lies. In no particular order.
- The boy saves her life, she owes him.
- By lying she saves that section of the Amazon which is what the rest of the group gave their lives for.
- If she tells the truth that also includes telling the truth about leaving that guy behind, making her look bad and possibly facing legal action from his family.
Why is this so difficult to understand?
You can give your reasonings without being a condescending prick. Why is this so difficult to understand?
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darren-oconnor — 10 years ago(February 21, 2016 11:25 PM)
But that's what doesn't make sense. Why would
anyone
want to preserve a bunch of savage, bloodthirsty cannibals who indiscriminately and
very
cruelly slaughter anyone not of their tribe who crosses their path. Just what is it, exactly, about a culture like that that anyone would find worth preserving?
Within the context of the movie, this is shown to be a tribe of utter barbarians not natives who are just different, but bloodthirsty savages who seem to positively delight in causing human suffering. I repeat, just what is it, exactly, about a culture like that that anyone would find worth preserving?
And given that Alejandro's group turn out to be, not sincere environmentalists, but in reality nothing more than just a bunch of cynical mercenaries who lie and manipulate people, and take money from one exploiter to stage a spectacle that will actually benefit another, why would
anyone
want to save that group from being revealed for what it really is? That group won't "fight for other causes more effectively;" it will just go on
pretending
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nuttallr — 9 years ago(April 25, 2016 09:38 AM)
They weren't attacking them for no reason. The group of environmentalists were wearing the uniforms of the people cutting down the forest. They did that to infiltrate that group. So when the natives see them wearing the same uniforms, and no way to communicate their true intentions, they are mistaken for the people destroying their land.