In the beginning she had a sh*tty,tennage girl attitude, in the middle she had a sh*tty, teenage girl attitude, and at the end, she had a sh*tty, teenage girl attitude.
Where was the big change in behavior???
That was something I struggled with, too. So her mum left her dad and them to be with someone else. She's bitter. Who better to take it out on than her barely-ever-there father? As an adult, we can see that logic does not agree with her point of blame but she's not an adult. And the whole movie centres on this huge change in her. Which, by the way, if he was really as previously absent in the children's lives as they all make out, just HOW would he notice it anyway?
Not a bad movie tho, all-in-all, i liked the parallell with the ant colony they had going on. There could have been a subtle reference to the deity's supernatural inclination...this just felt like they were intelligent animals to me. And the storyline needed to progress earlier...like we needed to find out about the burial site a little beforehand, and they needed to give some reason why the father couldn't take the kids and do the jit. Howver, having attempted several times to make movies myself (film student), I know that its all very well saying this stuff and throwing out criticism having just seen it, but REALLY hard to get everything just right when making the movie. The scripting wasn't bad, there was a little bit more of the screeching monster sounds that absolutely necessary (okay, there's weird creatures in the forset, we get it already). I actually liked the ending: a little bit of a question mark but IMO there's nothing too wrong with that. My point being, TMichelle hit the nail on the head lol!
The only things that made her different were her incessant dirtiness and the creepy music that played whenever she was around. Her attitude never really changed. I think it would have been a tad more convincing if she had been all happy go lucky in the beginning, or at the very least friendly towards her father.
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I noticed the same thing as the original poster. The daughter had the same attitude from beginning to end, there was no drastic change. This movie could have been written so much better.
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Teenage daughter with a *beep* attitude, selfish, vain, and totally egotistical......so she was your typical teen girl??
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LOL :)
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i liked that she only changed a little bit.. i have seen so many movies where the "psossesed" one starts doing walks on the ceiling throwing tantrums and actiang violent..this was more like okay my daughter may just be sick...i think the key scene when she eats her dinner was the creepiest in the film
shareI agree. I think the change was supposed to be subtle. For the dad, the disturbing changes were the sleep-walking, not remembering things, being covered in dirt, her eating and her freaky behavior toward her brother, not so much her crappy attitude. But when describing that behavior to someone else, especially with the crappy attitude, it could be easily explained as typical teenage girl behavior, thus making him even more unsure and others not really appropriately concerned (teacher, babysitter, cop).
shareI noticed the subtlety also. The biggest thing I noticed was she did a great job making me want to hate her.
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I disagree. The change wasnt supposed to be some magical personality transformation. It was a straight forward biological change. She was becoming something else. I think the title itself does a disservice because you expect a type of changeling situation where a child is switched with someone else entirely in a creepy swapped in the night kind of way. And thats not whats going on. She was simply changing because she had been effected by the creatures physically. She was still in there (you could see that when she was half asleep and she would genuinely seek connection with her dad). But the change was the fact she went from normal human to something else. Thats all. Im assuming it happened when they impregnated her. They try to highlight the change first by showing how she deals with the mean girl at school before her transformation and then after. Clearly shes different. She goes from being intimidated by to terrifying a bully. Then that dinner scene was classic. She goes from turning her little nose up at being offered beef jerky to devouring what seems to be a pretty rare steak (?) like an animal. Protein for the coming brood?
My question is would she have transformed completely into a creature like the others? The whole rash thing goes nowhere and it doesnt seem to spread much. But then at the end of the movie when they are blowing up the mound you see her face transform into a face like the creatures. Was she already a lost cause? Was the transformation not reversible like the old man said? Was John looking to rescue her or ultimately kill them together because she begged him not to leave her no matter what?