What the Director Says About The Ending *Spoilers*

I think the director's comments are very interesting, but they make no sense (of course, the Lynch and father have that in common). Unless, Rabbit had access to antibiotics, how would Angie survive? He told her that she would get very sick in two days. Though he studied, it is difficult to imagine he was able to heal her.

However, let's suspend disbelief quite a bit and say she heals without infection, there is no way that situation ends well. Rabbit believes he has made a connection with Angie and cares for her; but clearly, she would try to get away and rebuff him because, in her mind, she has no connection to him. She was abducted by him and he stabbed her (granted with, uhm, good intentions). I played it out in my head that when he realizes she wants to leave, he either has to keep her captive or kill her. There could be no happy ending.

Of course, Rabbit would walk to his fathers house. It's not like Uncle Bob took him to the DMV to get a drivers license. He has been a captive since he was 9 (which also makes it so implausible that he was taking the taxi out for a drive during the credits). Maybe I missed something or there was a whole lot left in the editing room with driving lessons and a map of the area. I did miss a couple of minutes... His father asks how he found him which is a good question and was able to get to his new house whether on foot or some other method.

Also, I am unclear about this "second" grave. I didn't see an empty grave. There were three mounds and each had a object on them (the only object I could make out was the book of clippings on Uncle Bob's grave), but there was not an empty grave that I could see. If there was, I expect it would be for Angie or for the victim, he apparently planned to bring home after miraculously learning how to drive a car well enough to go out and pick up fares).

There is no reason to expect Rabbit to become an upstanding citizen. The fact that he buries his Uncle indicates to me that he has no intention of reporting anything. After that ordeal, the first instinct would be to get to a phone and call for help--medical and police. The burial suggests continuing to hide the crimes and if Angie leaves, of course, that would not be possible.

Of course, if anyone did anything logical after Bob dies, it would be impossible to play out the final 'reveal' since the cops would probably escort Rabbit/Tim home, and there would be no big scuffle with a death. In fact, the police would very quickly make the connection that the Fittlers were brothers and Tim had just killed his uncle and glean the father's complicity (how likely is it that the police would not suspect the husband's involvement in the abduction) and arrest him immediately.

I thought the movie was somewhat entertaining. It had a lot of potential (unrealized). I think the fact that there now are two more "damaged" brothers (half-brothers, each raised by a psychotic sibling) is intriguing. You know there is abuse going on in the Fittler household because when he is attacking Gina Phillips' Marie, she is trying to placate him by saying, "it's okay" as he is assaulting her! Much like Bob Fittler made the drunk girl say "it's okay" before killing her. Marie, obviously had been in that situation and was saying what she was conditioned to say so the little brother, Colin, had been exposed to the same abusiveness.

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