The Emma Stone character putting the younger girl in that much danger was just totally insane and inconsistent with her behavior the rest of the film. It was the only thing in the film that lacked total logic and just seemed like contrived writing. They could have come up with a better reason for them to end up there and still had the big ending.
shareI've just re-watched this (again) and what Wichita did stood out for the first time for me as well.
Thinking about it, what they do makes sense. If you consider the danger they are already in every day, going to the park isn't a huge step up.
More importantly, anyone who has survived as long as they had in Zombieland has to have given themselves reasons to keep going beyond just being alive one more day. Columbus was driven by following his rules and getting to see his parents. For Tallahassee, it was vengeance balancing what you'd guess is a death wish.
With Wichita it is getting her sister to the park, giving Little Rock something to look forward to. She even admits that it is crazy, but protecting her little sister included preserving a tiny piece of her childhood.
You also have to wonder what would have happened if they had made it to the park without the others. Whether Wichita had planned it as the end of the road for them, or would they have set a new goal.
I'd have to disagree about this ending making any sense. The ENTIRE film was based on her being so careful and so cautious that she won't even trust the two humans that try to help. At the end, she realizes that it's too dangerous to love this guy and trust him ...so she does the safe thing and goes alone to an amusement park at night. It's so stupid (hey teaming up with these two helpers is too dangerous, so let's do something a million times more dangerous???) it goes against her character. Lighting up an amusement park at night for the whole city to see? What in the film makes anyone think that she would do that? It was a cheesy add on to the end, that contradicts her character. Plus, the whole rides just running themselves thing was more unbelievable than a zombie apocalypse
share100% spot on. they built the characters of the sister and they just ended up doing the classic hollywood cliche - strong characters (females) end up as damsels in distress because they go on to do a reckless impulsive thing (because again, that's what females do in Hollywood films); and the men end up saving them and the female ends up with the guy that saves her because he's her hero and he's her true love...
the way that Wichita's character was built up during the movie I truly thought that Hollywood is going to do something different - the girls saving the guys. But they gotta do the classic cliche scenario. Hooray for US films. I thought it was awesome until the theme park..