Can someone please explain the ending? Didn't quite understand it
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marauteatime — 10 years ago(December 08, 2015 08:11 PM)
Animals have no souls and babies are pure of heart. So neither would be trapped in a snowglobe purgatory. This universe has a Santa and if Krampus kept the baby's soul, Santa would confront Krampus, or, Krampus would just never be able to have it. And since animals have no soul, the dog wouldn't show up in the snowglobe either if it was a prison.
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Agent_Smoulder — 10 years ago(December 09, 2015 03:42 PM)
http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/graphics/dogs.jpg
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DisturbedPixie — 10 years ago(February 29, 2016 11:09 AM)
How did you decide babies can't go to purgatory? Babies are born with "original sin."
"Augustine contended that unbaptized children who die are condemned to hell, though they do not suffer all its pains because they are not guilty of personal sin.
Later theologians, in the Middle Ages, posited the existence of limbo as a way to soften the harshness of St. Augustines position. Unlike the state of quasi-hell posited by St. Augustine, these theologians defined limbo as a quasi-heaven, a place or state of where unbaptized persons enjoy a natural state of happiness yet remain excluded from the Beatific Vision" - http://www.aboutcatholics.com/beliefs/do-unbaptized-babies-go-to-limbo/
So if this is the mythology used in this Christmas story, than that baby is in the snow globe purgatory/limbo doomed to spend eternity on Christmas morning with this family. His sin was inherited, and that earns him this place in limbo.
Christians don't believe dogs have souls, so who cares about the dog? It's property just like the coffee table in the house.
All christian themed stories have this disturbing idea of hell and eternal punishment. No need to pretend this christian god or Santa counterpart would never let eternal punishment happen. There are no second chances for the eternally damned. This baby was meant to be punished, thus carrying out god's plan his mysteriously evil plan. -
Dsuarezmlc12 — 9 years ago(October 12, 2016 01:25 PM)
wait, so I can take my "property"(the dog) to the afterlife with me? Party at my house in the afterlife then.
The logical interpretation would be they learned their lesson/ extra chance, especially after reading the comments on here -
toph1980 — 10 years ago(March 01, 2016 07:44 PM)
after i left the cinema i thought more about it,
and now i think your theory B is the correct one.
there is one very important scene, which most people oversee.
we see the house and the camera is zooming out.
during this zooming the picture got blurred,
even for a quite long time.
its the moment the camera breaks through the glass wall of the snowglobe,
which means, both or all 3 things are real (the house, the globe and the room outside of the globe),
that all 3 things are on the same level/layer
and it proves that the snowglobe is not just Krampus' TV.
There is something else important going on that everybody has yet to mention: The narration during this last scene. The voiceover explicitly says "Krampus came not to reward, but to punish" or something along those lines, as the camera zooms out.
I'm going with B as well. What you see is what you get - family trapped in a snowglobe in Krampus' workshop/basement, punished, forever trapped in limbo whatever.
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bing-57 — 9 years ago(July 15, 2016 09:20 PM)
The boy that doesn't talk being eaten- I would say that his death is implied
Well, all the deaths were implied. Each one happened off screen. And the boy that didn't talk wasn't eaten, he was sucked up the chimney to an uncertain fate. The girl named Jordan was "eaten" by the jack-in-the-box, but she may still be alive inside of it.
What Would Jesus Do For A Klondike Bar (WWJDFAKB)? -
cgrill8 — 9 years ago(October 11, 2016 10:19 AM)
Huh? He was eaten the dark elves pulled him up through the chimney. I imagined they put all the family members as they knocked them out (or putting that slime over their face) which made them more sleepy than anything Stevie seemed completely fine when they wiped her face off)) into the back of the Krampus sleigh. I mean we saw the Der Klown (Jack in the Box) poking out from the back in that quick scene. And it had to be one of the 2 jack-in-the boxes with one of the girls in it. I was hoping to see a scene with them all roped up or bickering at each other in the back of the sleigh actually. With the dad, mom and aunt all with a bite out of their left or right legs but not dead. We only get that impression from Max when he asks his dad if they are all 'going to die'. And another sad thing is the grandmother did not understand the whole Krampus legend as the Director laid out. She knew nothing of his world per se. Only why he shows up, and who he takes. She knew nothing about how be redeemed, or getting her parents back.
3rd generation American from a long line of Gottscheers it was Drandul, dude! -
utexashorns — 10 years ago(February 26, 2016 09:02 PM)
you could not be more wrong if you tried, lol. They all suddenly remembered the events of the night before and how it was almost lost- not just the little boy. The lesson was learned but remember "he sees you when you're sleeping, knows when you are awake", in other words, he is keeping an eye on them in case they forget the lesson and dire warning given about the loss of Christmas Spirit.
It's a dog.
