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So would this be a 'Betrayal' to Spoony? (SPOILERS)

posted 12 years ago by Lovesbitcka
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Somehow I could see him screaming "BETRAYAL" about this one since he loved the original so much.
Hell, I almost felt like shouting that myself at the end when Nell *SPOILERS*
willingly joined with the Demon within her and then proceeded to murder everyone with those terrible photoshop-ish effects while she was driving.
To me the first movie and the first half of this one made it pretty EXPLICITLY CLEAR that Nell was a GOOD/PURE person and that she would never give in and go on the killing spree that she did. I don't know about anyone else but I am SO TIRED of all these horror movies forcing these stupid "downer endings" on everyone that contradict the movies up to that point. It's a shame to because the movie was really great up to that point. It was well on its way to being one of the best horror movies I've seen in years until that garbage. Like I said above, I could easily see Spoony screaming "Betrayal!" at this one.

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[–] GasmaskAvenger 12 years ago

I could care less if Noah screamed "betrayal!" at this film because I kinda dug the ending of this film.

at least it didn't end where she was killed or a bunch of people just flat out killed her or something. IMO I thought it was a cool downer ending and not like the ones seen in Insidious, the lousy POS Paranormal Activity 4 and the largely boring Sinister.

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[–] ericfield1985 12 years ago

AGREED! In fact I'd go so far as to say that cookie cutter happy endings are what kind of annoy me now a days. bring on the doom and gloom! lol. also agree on your opinion of PA and "boring sinister" lol. Although I have mad love for insidious. cheesy effects final and all.

[–] GasmaskAvenger 12 years ago

Honestly I actually liked Insidious, I just wasn't all that thrilled with the ending though. Plus I was okay with the Paranormal Activity films until the fourth film, which just flat out blew.

Also, while you don't like cookie cutter happy endings, I don't like cookie cutter endings in general whenever they are upbeat or downbeat, I just prefer a story to end in a way that makes sense in the context of the film. If a movie has a happy ending, that's fine and if it has a downer ending, it'll be fine too as long as the context of it works (like the ending of LE2 and the original Night of the Living Dead), I just don't like forced downer endings as much as forced happy endings.

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[–] aarsend 12 years ago

well, she was only 17 years old. I can see her actually fearing death more than the demon. After all the people said they were going to help her, not kill her. A big difference there.

I like the downer endings. Too many happy ones. Like the ending in The Mist. I actually had a good laugh at that one.

[–] Sera_88-640-97346 12 years ago

I would say yes, knowing Noah.

[–] WilltoPower 12 years ago

I don't know, I kind of liked it. Humans as awful as the ones Nell had interacted with could stain anyone. They did the ultimate betrayal by trying to kill her. She trusted them and look what they did.

The demon makes a compelling offer and is correct when it assesses how awful her life is and will continue to be. When you OD on opiates, I would assume that you lose inhibitions in similar fashion to when you don't OD making any offer seem alright at some level.

She did the right thing for herself. She made peace with who she was and stopped rejecting herself based on the judgment of those around her and her own fragile psychological state. Joining with the demon was her only option other than death, (which by the way the Demon described as nothingness in a not so subtle attempt to bring her to his way of thinking), and she wasn't ready to choose that path.

She had to chose. She did.