When 'the Man' first stole the battery and killed the man sleeping in the car, he stole the fingers the other guy had around his neck.
First I thought he was going to eat them seeing how food was sparse and all but he just kept them. Did anyone else get this?
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yeah, it is also very confusing to me this part. At the beginning I thought the fingers would be wearing some gold rings but that wouldn't make sense either in shredded world they lived in...
anyone else?
if you noticed, when the Man takes off his glove he is missing his left ring finger. my interpretation was that the bandit had chopped the Man's finger off in a previous encounter; he also had others which he kept as trophies. the Man's first trip to the bandit camp was to get the battery and get his finger back (which he then kept inside his glove)
shareAlso, he didn't kill the man sleeping in the car. At first I thought he did, but that guy is still alive at the end and testing the water. He's just not in charge anymore.
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Ah, I suspected that he was trying to become 'whole' when he placed it in his glove but I didn't notice the missing finger. Thanks.
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The finger thing seemed to denote who the boss was. Seeing as the Man was missing one of his fingers I'm guessing he was a previous boss with these particular bandits. He knew where to find their camp and knew where the boss and the trunk guy were.
He was at least associated with them at some point. And not all of the thugs were missing fingers so it seemed to be more of a boss thing. Yet he didn't know about the woman until the trunk guy showed him. Maybe she was a more recent acquisition?
I doubt that's the case. During the earlier part of the movie, the Man spends a day and night watching the camp before he ventures in to take the battery, so he saw the little guy get released from the trunk to fetch water and knew who the Boss was and where everyone slept.
Given that earlier in the movie we're introduced to the idea that women are the prized possessions of the clever or powerful, the woman revealed right at the end of the movie would've likely been owned for a long time and the Boss kept such a strict control to maintain his dominance and right to use her whenever he liked.
We realise this when, at the end, the Man laughs to himself as he realises that the Boss was ultimately only doing the same thing as the Doctor, and even the woman smiles at the ridiculousness of her predicament and life under the circumstances. What the Man does as a result of this revelation is anybody's guess, because the movie ends there and lets us make up our own minds.