I was just wondering if anybody knows what the father was going to do at the plant in the last scene? It looked as if he left the car running. Also I would assume that if he really went in for a workday, he would park the car in the parkinglot instead of the side of the building.
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shareYeah, sorry that ending left me really confused. Like did he know she was in the trunk and by leaving it running he is trying to gas poison her or is it he is running an errand and she is stuck in the trunk and doesn't know how to get out?
shareI just watched that scene with the sound turned right up, and he definitely switches the engine off. The noise you can hear is coming from the factory.
shareThe last scene worked for me. When it froze on the trunk of the car I ran through a very limited set of options for the girl and twenty seconds later, the end.
For all practical purposes she cannot get out of the trunk so although she is physically away from the house she is not truly in the outside world yet. She will inevitably leave the home but for now she is still firmly under her father's control. He will return home. The family will keep looking for her. She will be discovered eventually. She will return to her life of captivity and her father will resume his role of captor.
Her father might have been motivated to go back to the plant to question the security woman but I'm not sure how relevant that is. I'm trying to reset the last scene to a new location like parked in front of a police station (for example) and I don't believe it would have made a difference.
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Maybe, she can get out but the fear of the outside world stops her making the final step.
It would have been nice to learn what the girls believe about the outside world, and what the father had said to them that awaits them out there.
A strange twisted movie!
Though your theory is the most likely, I think the point of the ending was to say that real life consists of possibilities that we can't predict. So there's no real answer to the Eldest's fate, just as there is no real answer to anyone's fate. The father had supreme control in his closed system, but once the Eldest left that system, life, death, or more captivity all became possible.
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I believe you hit the nail on the head. You may leave your family one day, but you never truly escape the walls they help to build in your life.
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They fucki you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
Philip Larkin
No, silly
Wow.
sharei'm fairly sure she's dead.
staying overnight in the trunk of a car in Greece where it's quite, quite hot, i believe it's safe to say she's dead.
Is ending a reference to cat in a box? Cat is both dead and alive and we don't know before we look, but then, does it even matter.
shareThough the ending is left ambiguous, my interpretation is that the eldest did leave the car. Thus exposing the family.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
I think the key to the ending is in a line of dialog from the father, who tells the kids they can go in the car when their dogtooth falls out, and they can get out of the car when their dogtooth grows back. After the daughter pulls out her dogtooth, she gets in the trunk, and when she's finally outside and has a chance to run, she doesn't leave the trunk because she's waiting for her dogtooth to grow back. Even though she had to will to escape her parents, she still believes everything they told her.
shareThat's what I got as well. She grew to hate her parents, but she still believes what they have told her.
shareGood point here. I was thought the same thing.
sharemight be he stoped to pass some instructions, i feel the kid already dead
shareAt first i thought that she would eventually die since she would not be able to leave the car but then, as pointed out by slog3000 a few posts below it just might be that she is waiting for the dogtooth to grow back to leave the car(or try to) which would probably mean she would end up dead if she decides to wait indefinitely.
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