I feel like I am the only one that cried at the end. Yes, everyone got what they wanted . . . for the most part. But the idea of the two sisters separating made me cry. I bawled for a bit after the movie ended, only because I fell asleep, seeing as I watched it last night.
"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
You are not the only one.
It is very emotional when Lilly cries out for Mama and Victoria. She wanted all three of them to be together.
"Maybe it's another dimension. Or, you know, just really deep." --Needy
I was kinda hoping Mama would take the smaller kid and leave the rest of them alone :P
shareWhat a stupid monster, having to take someone else's kid. Doesn't she think about the family? No wonder she was from some psychiatric ward. She could always get a cat or something or get visitation rights, but no, she had to kidnap the child. It was also the child's fault for crying out her name. Stupid girl.
shareI really hope you're being sarcastic. If not . . .
1. I'd hardly call her a monster. She's a highly depressed and angry ghost.
2. To her, the girls were her children.
3. Get a cat? Obviously you've never been a parent. And kidnap the child? Are you referring to the baby? That baby *was* her actual kid. I'd done the same thing. Or were you referring to Lily? See 4.
4. "Mama" was the only mother Lily knew. Lily loved her. What if you found out that the woman who raised you, loved you, called you their own, was not your actual mother? Are you telling me you wouldn't care? That you would go willing with another woman who would take over as your new mother? Lily just wanted to be with her "mama". I don't blame her, but it was sad that she ended up seperated from her sister.
what the hell is your definition of a monster? someone that complies to what their victims want? someone that thinks and cares about what would hurt their victims? are you an idiot?
shareA very emotional ending, I agree. A lot of people from the Disney crowd wanted a happy ending and bitch they didn't get it but the ending was perfect. There was no realistic happy ending to that story. Lily was damaged, Victoria had a chance at life, they had to part ways.
The movie made it look poetic enough that there is a small part of me that hopes that Lily found happiness beyond mortal life but the separation of the two girls is still heart-wrenching.
For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco
There is nothing wrong with liking/wanting a fairytale ending. But I agree that with horrific movies, very rarely (if at all) there will be any happy ending.
shareI absolutely adored Lilly, Isabelle, in the film. It was a tragic ending. Personally I think that true love would have been to allow Lilly to live, have a real family, all of that. But Mama was a very conflicted figure. I didn´t quite catch where she escaped from when she was alive, I think it was referred to as "a place for sad people" or something similar, so was it a mental institution or an institution for people who were somehow seen as not normal as it was taking place over a 100 years ago and Mama looked to me somehow disfigured? Anyway, Mama killed the girls´father, yes the father was about to kill the girls, but still. She also almost killed Lucas, and Annabel too (in the scene where she is hiding in the closet and some other scenes too it was implied), and she killed their great aunt... more importantly, Mama also scared the girls and Lilly was even hiding in the room not opening the door to her sister in one scene. It left me quite conflicted as well. I mean she was this mother figure, but this horrible monster too...
I guess it would have been the most common ending that Mama would have picked the bones of her baby and been satisfied, completed, with that. I was quite surprised when she just threw the bones away when Lilly cried out for her, and a bit annoyed too. The baby she had been looking for for such a long time, and then just throw him or her away like that?! What was that about? I also didn´t understand what exactly happened to Mama´s baby. Clearly the baby died. But in the dream Mama showed Annabel the man, the priest I assumed, was carrying the baby away after Mama had jumped from the cliff. So the baby was alive there I guess? How did he or she die then?
Anyway, I guess my point was that if Mama was a true Mama, she would have give Lilly up.
And the ending was very sad, as I guess it was also meant to be.
But one thing: I think it´s also implied that Lilly is coming back in the same form as Mama, when the moth flies and sits on Victoria´s arm in the end. Hopefully Lilly won´t be a horror figure though as I am not sure I could take that..! ;)
The woman "mama" jumped off the cliff with the child in her arms. On the way down, they both crashed into a large root poking out of the cliff about halfway down (the impact probably killed the baby instantly or it had internal bleeding), then the baby's wrap was caught on the root and mama continued the rest of the way down to the water (most likely dying on impact as the surface tension of water is like hitting cement). So the baby died while the mother tried to kill herself and her baby, after stabbing a nun with a knitting needle and grabbing her child.
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