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Great film--but they didn't show the end scene after the credits! Help!

posted 15 years ago by fourballoons
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Saw this last night at the TAD Film Fest (North American premiere?) and loved the film. It was really well done, and the whole atmosphere was just perfect. It was mysterious and sinister--yet calm--yet crazy. Does that make any sense? ;)

Anyhow,aside from several terrible (and unstoppable) power outages and equipment failures (due to a big storm last night), one thing that TOTALLY has me peeved is the fact that the cinema didn't even SHOW the film's credits! The film just abruptly stopped after the credits started--but now I find out that there was a extra/ending scene that pops up after the credits finish rolling--that change the entire outcome of the film...

ARRRGH! I would REALLY like to see this scene. Does someone know where I could see this scene? (hey, I paid my money to see the film, so I don't think I'm asking anything wrong in hoping to find the scene somehow...which I should have gotten to see anyway. ;))Or at the very least describe it in grave detail?

Thanks..

[–] The_Crazed_Madman 15 years ago

*spoilers obviously*

I had no idea there was an extra scene after the creidts....really didnt seem like the type of movie to have one. There was, however a scene BEFORE the credits...where it seemed a little out of place at the end of the film. As in the final scene in the asylum looked like the end of the movie....but then quickly cuts to a church where Gamir is a priest and a man enters a confession booth.

Man: "I have just killed my wife, will I go to hell?"
Gamir: "There is no hell"
Man: If there is no hell then there is no heaven"
Gamir: "Go home, and move on with your life....but do not open that door"
Man: "what door?"
Gamir: "Everyone has a forbidden door, and once you look through it...you cannot go back"
Man: "how will I know what the forbidden door is?"
Gamir: You will only know once you go through it"

...or something to that extent (trying to remember the best I can). But I think it meant that everyone has a "secret fantasy" of evil in them (eg. the TV's he was watching signified other peoples dark fantasies), and you dont know what yours is unless you actually "do" it (opening the door). And in Gamir's case it was killing his family.

http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&id=the+crazed+madman

[–] nbsafari 15 years ago

Hey i've just watched this Film at the London Film Festival and whilst i'm not sure where you'll be able to view it (ealist in the UK as it has no distributor) i did view the scene after the credits.

It shows the wife as the women leaving the prison on the phone, depicted as the same women Gambir heard talking through the air vent in the Cafe toilets outside the club.

After a Q and A with the director i was still left with many questions, but one thing he did mention was that the long list of numbers written on the club door had a significant meaning.

Hope this helps

[–] thither 15 years ago

IMHO the last scene isn't terribly critical. It shows Gambir's wife (as the reporter) with the same press pass and outfit she had on while visiting Gambir at the prison / asylum. She says into her phone "yes, yes. I finished the article. I'm on my way to the office now." She leaves and we see "HELP ME" written on the wall - the camera pans up and we see she was standing in front of the HEROSASE building.

[–] fourballoons 15 years ago

Thanks for the descriptions everyone!

So I guess this means that Gambir wasn't nuts all along? That his entire family was in on it and they DROVE him nuts? Etc.?

[–] vervefan-1 14 years ago

I'm not sure. I think it could also be taken to mean that the events in the mental hospital/prison are also part of a dream world.

His wife and everyone else are dead whether they existed or not so I don't think that was his wife pretending to be a reporter (or vice versa). Most likely the wife was in his head and the reporter was real.

[–] BLightyear 14 years ago

I thought it means the name of the asylum is Herosase.

'Last night I saw a face.'
'Did it have a nose?'
'Yeah.'
'That does sound like a face.'

[–] Ramuna 13 years ago

Nothing really change the outcome of the film.

It is just a scene in showing that the female reporter communicating on cellphone with her office claiming something about the article's being finished in front of Herosase building, which I assume is the asylum where Gambir was kept and that the writing 'help me' on the Herosase wall is indeed exist in real world. But of course one can intrepret it differently by saying that that hey the 'real world' was also part of Gambir's imaginery. :)