Why does Justine lie?

would you kill all wild animals in amazon because they can eat a human? this is their natural life. if a tiger hunt a human nobody call it a killer. she noticed that and let them live there. this is nature rule.

Because this movie is essentially a remake of Cannibal Ferox and the surviving character does the same thing at the end of that movie too.

It seems that everybody else who responded either did not know why she lied or completely forgot the scene where Alejandro told them the truth. That scene was there specifically to pave the way for the twist ending.

Alejandro explained that they were not in fact saving the village at all, that they were there simply to make a public spectacle to delay one company from razing the village long enough to allow a competing company to beat them to it. The reason that he went along with it, knowing full-well that it was futile was not to save that village, but as a “photoshoot” as he said, to raise awareness and gain fame for the group so that they could make a difference with other causes for which they actually stand a chance.

She lied because she realized that if she told the truth, people would be less upset about a village of primitive, barbaric savages being wiped out, and things would go back to normal (and the group would probably even get ridiculed and discredited for trying to save them). However, if she made them out to be gentle recluses who saved her, then there would be a lot more outrage over the incident, and the group could continue to fight for other causes more effectively.




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I got the impression that it was because ultimately by lying she archived what she and the other's set out to archive , the reason I think this is because of the scene on the plane after the demonstration and Justine is pissed understandably and Jonah says to her too look out the window she looks down at the jungle and he then says you helped save it and she smiles , but that's my opinion

It doesn't make any sense to lie when the truth is going to be revealed when they find the crash site and the dead bodies.

I don't know Eli Roth's politics, but its like how some liberals support the "oppressed" people even after all their bad experiences. Like the social justice warrior who goes to Detroit to help the inner city but ends up being robbed by gangsters. There are Western liberal volunteers who have gone to Gaza to support the Palestinian and been killed by Muslim terrorists, yet they still support the Palestinian cause.

This may sound weird, but in the end of Cannibal Ferox (a film that Roth has cited as an influence here), the female survivor of the ordeal lies about what happened to her. Maybe the ending of The Green Inferno is a tribute to that film. I don't know. I think the ending of Inferno was awful, and the "credits" twist was lame.

the ending of Ferox was more believable, perhaps because the actress playing the survivor of the carnage looked really beat down and sad by the whole thing at the end of the movie. The girl in Inferno doesn't show any signs of her ordeal.

Clearly she's in love with her saviour and wants to go back and play Jane to his Tarzan. If she hadn't lied hecould have been slaughtered as one of the monsters. The sequel will be similar to George of the jungle 2 or junglecto jungle...uhm hmm