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The logger guy at the end...

posted 9 years ago by ejs8882000
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Say what you will about Scarlett's character and the alien guy she was working with and how horrible it was for them to lure innocent men into harms way, to be "processed" for her alien cultures food source it seems. I agree it was terrible to see them go through that. However, I was really disturbed by how the logger guy at the end attempted to rape and cut her with his knife. Obviously he didn't know she was an alien, but it seems that he's preyed on women before and he'll do it again. I was disturbed that once he burned her alive he takes off. Out of all of the male characters, he was the only one that deserved to meet that liquid fate.

And honestly, you actually start to feel sorry for her, because you can tell that at the moment she attempted to seduce the disfigured man, she had a complete change of heart. You can see she starts to sympathize with humanity and feels remorse over the things she's done. She even tried to assimilate into human culture, such as trying to eat a piece of cake, but of course since she's not human it doesn't work out.

But anyway, I was just disturbed that the real human monster got away at the end. But, that might have been the point. She gets to experience the beauty and horror of human nature first hand until she dies. Great film by the way, I've been thinking about it for a while now.

[–] screwluce48 8 years ago

Really feel that too! Awful to watch and hasn't thought of it like that!

[–] bluersun 8 years ago

For me, the scene at the beach is the most difficult to watch, in fact I only ever watched it the once and now skip that scene altogether.

[–] ryansmum 8 years ago

Totally agree with you!

[–] Stirchley 8 years ago

The logger was a pig. 'Nuff said.

[–] KutWrite 8 years ago

Before reading the other responses, I must respond to say I agree with you.
I had the same feeling at the end.

For a moment after the end, I thought maybe the evil guy thought he was saving the world from an alien, and gasoline was his only weapon. It is England/Scotland after all. But then I thought, he probably got rid of all his victims that way. This one would especially bother him, as she scared HIM!

As to movie justice, I thought that the one motorcycle "cleaner," the one overlooking that vista, knew the guy had killed her.

The "cleaners" seem to have great hunting skills. He would find and dispose of the evil guy, probably using the goo, as why waste a few good gallons of "Soylent Red?"

[–] YuunofYork 8 years ago

That's the entire point of the movie - you're supposed to sympathize with her. She has been this wolf dressed as a lamb who goes native, only to find this planet has its own predators. The film's meaningfulness owes everything to that final irony.

[–] SteveRes (508) 8 months ago

The end was one of the few good parts of the movie, a sick twist where the man who finally stops her killing spree is a scumbag rapist. I didn't expect that.