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How you can tell it's not an Indie film....(spoilers)

posted 14 years ago by JustMammal
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While the movie has many Indie film characteristics: grim, graphic reality (e.g. excrements of the old man); character development etc... The ending betrays it has been distributed by a Major Hollywood studio (and the fact that the homeless man never seem to die): the "good" guy wins and is alive - the "bad" guy (and girl) dies. When in reality it's the other way around (except the "bad" guy and girl get punished).

I don't think a movie need to follow the real events to the letter. But for goodness sake why fake out a "happy ending". While major studio produced "Into the Wild", yet they did not have the main character survive and run to embrace his "Mommy". I guess a director like Sean Penn will be less compromising when it comes to happy endings, even when demanded by the Hollywood. Alas Stuart Gordon is more about sensational thrills than the integrity of the plot.

[–] Clem_DeFontane 14 years ago

Maybe the movie lost some of its impact by letting the man survive. But, the catharsis the "happy" ending allowed was amazing. Every time Brandi said "it wasn't my fault" I wanted to throw my TV out the window in disgust.

I say "maybe" above, but that ending also added some strength to its impact. We got to see Brandi beg for her life, just as the man had been doing for the rest of the movie. Then, he showed compassion and she took that opportunity to try and shoot him. It shows that people (maybe just some people?) are completely irredeemable. And, he "won" because he spent the whole movie helping himself to his victory. I think the movie wants to say that we deserve the spoils of our own efforts, but that we can't count on others to help us.