Rosario (spoiler)

Yeah she was alive. Earlier in the movie it showed her with short hair talking to the mother in a cafe looking washed out and obviously affected by that ordeal. The back and forth in time made it a much more complicated film than it needed to be imo.

I came here looking for the answer to the same question. I watched that scene multiple times and, at first, I could have sworn she was dead, but after watching her face and her body, I'm pretty certain she was alive. It looked like she blinked her eyes a couple times, and it looked like she was breathing. She looked half frozen to me; I was surprised, but happy, to see her [barely] alive. It would have been symbolic if she had died. Almost like she gave her own life to save the lives of many more, because now Mika (that freak) had been exposed and the police would probably gain access to all the encrypted rings, I imagine.

Regarding Cass, have you ever heard of Stockholm Syndrome? It's basically when a victim or hostage begins to develop sympathy, loyalty, etc. towards his or her captor. I'm not sure that I see that here, to the full extent, as Cass was still able to grasp onto reality, but I would have to watch the movie again. I saw it more as defense mechanisms at work, which likely allowed Cass to do what she needed to do to survive. It's unclear what, if any, abuse (sexual/physical) occurred, but I gathered that Mika was a pedophile who grabbed Cass at her age due to his interest in younger children. Fast forward six years, Cass asks Mika why he doesn't just kill her because she has grown up and he has lost interest. He keeps her around because she is useful to him in luring other innocent children. Cass doesn't lure them willingly. Mika has been watching her family for years and could kill them at any moment. Surely we know he's a sick, demented freak. He taunts them with the teeth, the trophy, the pinwheels. I believe Cass helped her captors (Mika) because, by doing so, she was helping to keep herself and family/skating partner alive.

Also, Cass had been held captive for, what, 8 years? She was probably desperate for human contact; so desperate for contact, and so desperate to keep herself and her family alive (bc she had no clue what Mika's real intentions were) talking to anyone else outside of that room was prob a saving grace for her. At one point, she didn't even know what season it was outside, so she had been looked away for years. Although Cass's actions are seen as bad, thinking about what she was going through emotionally, and all the trauma she herself experienced, allows us to see that there is clearly more going on than Cass willingly luring in young girls of her own volition.

Where is that scene everyone talks about about the cops finding Rosario in the van.
In my copy, right after Mika dies without revealing the location of the van the camera shows the hospital scene family reunion, then Cass skating, the Ryan G driving away, then credits...

Where is it ?


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