What a stupid way of killing the intruders!

I also agree it was a very stupid way of killing those guys, but I guess for plot narrative sake, it had to be done that way. Theroux needed an excuse for the family to move on to even more primitive living conditions. So all in all, having the big 'monster' blown up AND killing the intruders seems to fit into the creeping insanity of Ali.

However, the whole time that the intruders were there, I thought 'why dont they just poison them?'. There are plenty of plants and vines in the jungle that are highly poisonous which locals of that area normally use on their speartips for hunting, so Im sure they knew which plants were poisonous. At one point the intruders even ask for some food, and they could've easily mixed in some poisonous juice which would've stunned them all before they had a chance to shoot anybody.

- but then we wouldnt have had a two hour movie :) -

hey when he makes a mistake, makes a good one

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Bring'em on!! I prefer a straight fight to all sneaking around!!

He only said this once, meaning that they could survive by laying low in the machine to avoid being frozen, information which they would not know. By saying this, he is reinforcing the idea that he is giving them a "sporting chance" to survive, rather than just kill them outright.

You totally missed the point of that line.

The scene is supposed to demonstrate the fallibility of pure logic. Perhaps you've heard this before, but if 3 birds are resting on a branch and you shoot one with a rifle, how many birds are left? They answer isn't two, it's none, because the birds that lived would be startled by the shot and fly away. Pure logic doesn't take into account things acting of their own volition.

Similarly, Allie had a plan to kill the terrorists by freezing them to death, which he thought would be clean and simple, but you could tell he never factored in the human equation--which is that people usually don't like to die and will fight back. He didn't account for that possibility his plans. When he said "No, no, just lie down," he was panicked because he could see things weren't going the way he had imagined them. He really thought they would just accept their fates and lie down and die willingly, as insane as that seems to you or I.

So the scene is really all about Allie's limitations in that respect, about how little he understands about how other people's minds work.

Putting them in Big Boy was the only chance he had, for they sure as hell were about to make their move. They would've been raped, killed etc. for their plot.
'have no pity for them' or whatever he said was because it's a matter of survival.
A@@holes with automatic weapons tend to use them.

Just because Charlie, the River Phoenix character, didn't happen to die at that point in the story does not mean that Allie's decision to risk Charlie's life wasn't in every way, shape, and form, the epitome of the word 'sacrifice'. Allie wasn't nearly as willing to risk his OWN life as he was willing to risk the life of his son to get the deed done that he needed another person to do. Allie was a lot more comfortable risking Charlie's life than his own. Since the entire concept of a sacrifice is to risk the loss of something in the hope of getting something even better, and since it is clear that Allie wanted absolutely nothing as much as he wanted his own utopia, and since he was willing to lose the life of his own son to be allowed to keep it, it qualifies as a sacrifice.

Ironically, however, although Allie risks his sons's life in favor of his utopia, he still manages to lose his utopia despite getting to keep his son.

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