Ending [SPOILER]
Spoiler warning!
If who we thought was Niles is actually Holland after all, why is Holland crying as he looks out the window at the barn?
"The surviving twin" knows how to mimic what would be considered 'normal' behavior pretty well (for a while, anyway, per the book) and is mourning the loss of his crazy old grandmother. (Alexandra, looking at him from her own window thinks otherwise.)
No fate but what we make. -Terminator II
Thank you for the reply. I was thinking that this could be the only reason too, but it's strange seeing as 'the surviving twin' seems to be alone in the room in the final scene with no one to see him crying over the grandmother's death. Alexandra (the mother) is in another room, so she wouldn't be able to see this either, would she?
shareThey were milking that last 'reveal' (remember that slash edit of the padlock along with the slow pan of the burnt apple cellar?) but you see Alexandra kind of staring up towards the window (or just the room.) At that point they may believe that Alexandra has gone off the deep end as well and can't communicate.
She knows exactly who survived.
I think that 'the living twin' may be mourning the total loss of his other at that point, too and, it was HIS grandmother as well. The book lays out a different epilog in which the truth is discovered and the actual 'survivor' is made a little plainer.
Although I had read the novel when the film came out and knew what to expect, the scene still gave me chills.
No fate but what we make. -Terminator II
Excellent clarification! Thanks again :)
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