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Carrigon — 13 years ago(October 03, 2012 06:32 PM)
I saw that ending coming. But I didn't think she knew she was killing her sister. I think she really had mental illness and thought she was saving her. This was someone who should have been having treatment and been hospitalized. It just seemed no one really got how mentally ill she was. It's sad that people can be that far gone.
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johnwills3 — 13 years ago(October 04, 2012 07:23 PM)
Thats all she wanted the whole film.
I thought the ending was great as its not spoon feeding you the outcome. If you pay attention though I think its abundantly clear the fate of her sister.
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Luangwa — 10 years ago(May 24, 2015 03:52 PM)
i agree. anybody with even a rudimentary understanding of a lung transplant operation knows it can't simply be done in a garage. and the movie took pains to show that pauline was an intelligent person, and that she had read up on the subject. i suspect this is a cop-out by the film makers. movie writers often use insanity as a blanket to put all manner of nonsense in a film purely for shock value or to confuse people. but any form of madness always has some method in it. the explanation for her insanity is also weak. there is not enough justification for it. plenty of people have suffered a lot more in life than her and not done such ridiculous acts. and there is a lack of logical progression in terms of increasing sociopathy.
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willshad — 13 years ago(October 06, 2012 12:46 AM)
It's pretty obvious to me that she thought she was saving her sister. She even says something like "You'll thank me some day" before she puts her to sleep.
And it is not obvious that the sister is dead at the end..it is left in the air, and really doesn't matter in the ultimate tragedy of the situation. She was going to die anyway. Even if she lived, then the main character would be locked up the rest of her life.
I loved the characters of this movie, but it seemed like the writer did not have many ideas of where to take the plot, and stretched out one idea into a 90 minute film. 90% of it seems like filler. The ending really should occurred 20 minutes in, and the rest of the film should have built upon that. -
Nanook — 13 years ago(October 12, 2012 11:46 PM)
it is not obvious that the sister is dead at the end..it is left in the air, and really doesn't matter in the ultimate tragedy of the situation. She was going to die anyway. Even if she lived
Perhaps you missed the part where her
LUNGS were REMOVED FROM HER BODY with no machines to keep her blood oxygenated or carrying said oxygen to her organs. Perhaps you never took biology, but let me make this clear: she was dead and it was very apparent.
In any case, I thought the very ending was harrowing and incredibly effective. One of my favorite recent horrors. Hope Richard Bates Jr. makes another film soon.
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HikerBoy57 — 13 years ago(April 04, 2013 01:06 PM)
Great post, Nan00k!
I'm not sure how someone could think Grace was alive at the end, unless they think we are in a fantasy/sci-fi/supernatural film world. EXCISION clearly was not. You don't have to be a scientist to know that removing someone's lungs with a kitchen knife WILL KILL THEM.
I could understand a bit of confusion IF they had shown Grace appearing to be alive (in Pauline's visions/fantasies, for example) in some way, but they didn't. Dead.
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willshad — 13 years ago(October 06, 2012 10:47 AM)
I think the ending would have had a lot more impact if they had attempted to make it a surprise, rather than predictible. As it stands, you knew what would happen as soon as they said the sister needed surgery. WE should have been as surprised as the mother was.
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drpayne-1 — 12 years ago(April 08, 2013 08:59 AM)
SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought the same thing about seeing the ending coming the whole time, but I think the director intentionally ended it with the obvious ending because the viewer (myself included) didn't think Pauline would ACTUALLY do it.
As for any confusion, her sister was in fact dead due to biological reality. And Pauline thought she would/could save her. It wasn't until her mother broke down wailing that the reality of what she had done sank into Pauline's delusion, that's why she went from creepily explaining the surgery to wailing as well.
Throughout the film we're lead to think Pauline is just "quirky", but there are the multiple references to Pauline's "possible borderline personality disorder" and her "delusions of surgery". Once agin, we the viewer are lead tot hink maybe everyone is being a little too harsh to Pauline.
Then after the popular girls trash her house she full on snaps. That's the first fight at school, and then she begins planning her surgery to save her terminal sister.
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joshualeigh2000 — 13 years ago(October 07, 2012 03:19 AM)
rofl @ the first 2 posters what do you mean "is that all the writer could come up with to end this" how else could it possibly have ended? how would you have ended it genius??????? silly kids.
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pndpuppy82 — 13 years ago(October 11, 2012 05:59 AM)
I went to see Excision last night at AFI Silver in Silver Spring, MD last night and the director Richard Bates was at the screening. (side note: a lot of the film crew are actually from the MD/DC/VA area, hence the Virginia license plates and also the reason why Richard came to the screening in the first place) He had a q&a after the film and one audience member asked if Grace was dead at the end of the film and she is.
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DejanO — 13 years ago(October 11, 2012 06:00 AM)
How in hell was this movie confusing? What could the writer possibly come up with other than what happened?
You dont need medical expertise to know that you cannot just simply: SPOILERS
Cut someone up and take their one of their organs or lungs out and put it in someone else and voila! Grace gets up, one big happy family while the theme of "7th Heaven" plays and everyone is happy =D =D =D.
The brilliance of this movie is that it presents Paulina as a weird, anti social, sociopath, but the audience expects her to succeed in the end and "win", she plays a stereotype just like the dumb cheerleader blond, except that the writers didnt give you what you want, she really was messed up and the result was deadly -
tarotbytara — 13 years ago(October 11, 2012 09:43 AM)
I went to see Excision last night at AFI Silver in Silver Spring, MD last night as well, and I think the ending was a perfect fit. What I'm most amazed at is how good Traci Lords did acting-wise. She was excellent!
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