the end
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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.
Great film. Reminded me of May in a lot of ways, but the last ten minutes of this were a very well done example of ramping up a sense of unease to a realization of horror. -
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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vrooomaa — 13 years ago(November 26, 2012 06:27 PM)
There is no doubt i my mind that Pauline did what the did with good intensions.. I really think she thought in her effed up head that she was going to save her sister.BUUUUT I also think that towards the middle of the procedure she realized she messed up.. but by then she was already too far into it.