Why does Justine lie?

I was so happy when they were getting wasted at the end. Then she lied. I have no idea why she lied. Freaks like that don't deserve to be near any other human beings, they need to be put on their own little island away from any other human existence.

Really? Because they're a rare-ish unknown-ish tribe from the Amazonian Jungle!
Where the only other folk they have encounted is... None or hardly any. Apart from the big tyrana Digger-saurus they witness now and then... That's clanged a few tribbles along the way.

Buzzards eat your carcass....

Lol!!!


My ass may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass...

that is the reason why she went to the amazon in the first place...


But to be honest I would have lied

For my understanding, I think she lied because it's her way to protect the jungle that they were trying to protect in the first place. Remember those parts when her other companions kept telling her about the benefits they could reap of their activity. Like for e.g., the black guy where he let her show the jungle during their plane ride or their schmuck leader stating that he did what he did (where he made a deal with another logging company) in order to be able to implement his plans or as he sees it in a bigger picture. Basically, since all the media were tuning in to her story now, it would be a waste of the opportunity and the death of her companions would be for nothing.

She did it to preserve the rain forest. If she says the natives killed them all then they would continue with cutting down the rain forest but she says the natives were good to her so it makes people think twice about cutting down the Amazon.

I posted this comment on another thread, but here it is for you:

That's the culture of the village. They aren't evil per se. That's the only thing they've ever known. They're a product of their environment. The villagers killed the activists b/c they felt threatened by them thinking they were part of the corporation that was bulldozing their environment and trying to kill them. --- Remember the scene at the beginning w/ the teacher explaining female circumcision and the teacher explains that's a part of another culture and that it's seen as acceptable there. Same logic.

The main character couldn't forgive that guy and left him, because he simply exploited the villagers to gain fame. He knew that they would get killed and that they would lose their homes, but choose to do so, so that he could get more popular and his organization would as well in the process.

Remember the guy's girlfriend asks the main character if she's doing this for the right reasons and she responds yes. The boyfriend (or the guy left in the cage) wasn't. On top of that, he consciously offered up one of the fellow members as a sacrifice to the tribe.

Justine lied to protect them and what was happening to them.

To push the plot point that Alejandro is now the head honcho. Somehow. As depicted by a satellite photo. Awful