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last scene ?

posted 13 years ago by Mandy_Whitsands
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What was the significance of the last scene, when the dead bodies are examined in the morgue ? Thanks

[–] carlo_6ft 13 years ago

I think it's just to show again the waste of two people, none of them won the challenge and now they're just two dead bodies.

[–] Mandy_Whitsands 13 years ago

so you think this was the teacher and his pupil ?
I was thinking it was kind of a last minute surprise (as happens often in films) where the audience is shown a morgue full of dead bodies suggesting that the teacher's revenge trip killed more people than just the 2 known to the viewer thus far ...

[–] fiatlux-1 13 years ago

I think it's just to show again the waste of two people, none of them won the challenge and now they're just two dead bodies.

I agree.
I think its to show how, despite what they both thought of themselves and each other, they are 'the same' after all. Two dead humans.
The fact that they positioned Garfield to look at Cesar was especially interesting.

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[–] ClenRen 11 years ago

I agree that was interesting.

[–] rpressley 10 years ago

Why were wieners covered??

[–] stevenackerman69 10 years ago

You are not allowed to show penises on camera.

[–] stevenackerman69 10 years ago

That wasn't the last scene, the last scene was Ellen taking her teaching degree, throwing it in the trash, and walking out. As to the dead bodies being in the morgue, they are being prepared to be buried.

[–] ozkannoyan-1 10 years ago

the answer was Pyrrhic victory i assume