The end scene? what do you infer?
Do you think like me: yhe end scene means the military wants to kill them in the end scene? and all killings was commanded by the USA military??
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I would have to agree with mymovie2000, in saying that the ending made me believe that there was something more sinister behind the attacks and killings than they had believed throughout the movie. The fact that they saw the cars passing by on that road that were stamped us military, made it hard for me to believe that the military couldn't have found them if they wanted to, since they were in the middle of the small bayou towns themselves. It almost seemed that the military had been there, in that town, with the purpose of helping them to be killed. Also the looks the faces of the two remaining soldiers was one of confusion and terror, not one of relief, which is what I would have thought they would have felt had they been about to be rescued? Just my thoughts though. I would love to hear more opinions as it was a sort of cliff hanger ending in my book?
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Interesting theory.
I have always believed that the military vehicle and helicopter were there because they were searching for them.
I think when they both look at each other's face, they are acknowledging that they are finally being rescued.
After the hell they've been through, I don't think they were able to show a "relieved" expression on their face but did feel this internally.
I agree with you somewhat, but:
Yes, the helicopter is searching for them, its not entirely known that they see them. I think that their lack of a sense of relief is that it is a race between the helicopter rescuing them and the cajuns catching up to them. They are uncertain what the outcome will be.
There is nothing in the film that would cause me to infer anything like that. The ending is straightforward, they make contact and make it out.
sharethis...but the movie sucked anyway so who cares
shareI thought they got rescued just in the nick of time.
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They are safe with their own unit at the end, and they have to figure out how to explain what happened.
They couldn't been seen by the helicopter because they were in green uniforms in a swamp.
The truck is being driven by a soldier, not a Cajun.
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What do I infer in the end scene? That Walter Hill sucks, and just does things to do them. No meaning, no message, no ambiguity. None on purpose, anyway.
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they were rescued. i dont think anything else can be read into it.
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They get rescued. That Spencer and Hardin had a slight look of confusion and suspicion on their faces as the military vehicle approached probably was just a reflection of the trust-nobody paranoia that they surely felt by this point.
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Roy_Munson2004 wrote:
"I think a lot of you guys are on crack - the military ordered all the killings????"
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No, it makes perfect sense. Stuckey was a serious contender for the presidency. Reagan and Carter colluded to get rid of him and his whole unit by hiring four or five random cajuns to do the dirty work, instead of the CIA. Yeah, that's the ticket.
The movie is clearly an alegory on the US intervention in Vietnam. At the end they get rescued by the military, but they are equally scared and confused because:
- They trust no one.
- On a more metaphoric level, it was the US government and military the ones who sent young soldiers to be killed in very similar circumstances in Vietnam. So, maybe the people rescuing them are not exactly the good guys, as both Boothe and Carradine's characters seem to suspect.
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Well, whenever I think I'm paranoid, I'll just come back to this post to see what real Paranoia is. LOL, get real.
Paranoia theory One: Hardin wasn't really from the Texas National Guard. He was from the Texas Rangers, investigating courrpt school football games and a possible alliance of the coach and Cribbs. Naturally, when Colonel Flagg of military intelligence found out Hardin was in his unit, he assumed Hardin knew about his assassination of former MASH personell in Korea, so he had them all liguidated in the swamp.
Well, this is the modern movie audience. Give them a buscuit, and they'll swear there must be a pumpkin hiding in it.
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The end of the movie reveals the fact that it was a similar situation to Vietnam... War is hell... U.S. soldiers don't fare well in unfamiliar territory... The movie is set in 1973... So there is a direct Vietnam correlation...
shareThat is bull, they finally made it to the good ole US of A.
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