I'm a little lost wondering why people think this film has an ambiguous ending.
My immediate impression after the film was that Martin got away with his crime,
went back to work, and hears a small child crying in the garage. Was that child
not the same as the one whose parents were taken from him, while being left in
the car (his mother being the pregnant woman who squashed the head of her baby)?
I could be hugely over-simplifying it but I thought that Tom Six was being clever about the criticism he got (oh you're sick! People will copy you). He was saying you'd have to be this miserable and insane to attempt it
shareit was definitely a dream. It's so obvious. So many bizarre moments happened in this film. 13 people go missing in a short span in the same parking lot without the cops investigating? The story makes it clear that Martin is mentally challenged and isn't meticulous at all. He even left that one woman's little kid in the car even the day after he picked up his parents. The cops would have seen and Martin being the dumbass he is is the most visible suspect. Also how Martin keeps bashing people in the head but they STILL live. A lot of the film was incredibly unrealistic but that's because it is in fact a dream. It was just some dude living out his deepest fantasies including situations like killing his Mom for the way she treats him. Ever imagine some messed up stuff and it's so messed up you want to stop imagining but instead your subconscious just creates more messed up stuff? This film felt like some guys twisted wildest fantasies come to life.
shareMy guess is that the line between fiction and reality is severely blurred for him, so the audience is led to the same confusion. As he watched Centipede II, he had become so infatuated and involved with the movie that he no longer knows the difference.
At the end of the movie, we see him watching the credits to the movie we had just seen. As the credits roll, does he actually hear cries of the young child, or are the cries still resonating in his head from the effect of the movie? Had he truly killed his mother and all those people, or was it just the psychotic character from the movie that he had closely identified with? From what I understand, he has no clue either.
This confusion could also account for all the impossibilities within the movie like not getting caught and other mysteries. Anything can happen in a movie, right? He was only reliving the scenes within his head as he watched and/or mimicked them.
"Okay I'm back now, what did I miss? Oh crap!" - God
Yes, this. It's also an attempt to give the finger to people who like these movies.
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i'm sure there isn't supposed to be a clear ending. people point to the child crying as the movie closes. but martin hears his abused self as a child crying in his head. so im sure it was meant to be a "is that the child crying or his memory"
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