At the end of the film when she is back in the US she lies and says the villagers are peaceful and that the loggers slaughtered them all. Why does she lie? To protect them? Why??
sharethat was part of the dream. her way of dealing with the trauma. its how she wished it really went. then sees alejandro and wants to bite his head off. pretty clear its all a nightmare. no idea why people think that happened.
shareI've honestly never undrstood. I'm sure it's meant to be a hybrid of satiring SJWs and Italian Cannibal Genre's normal endings, but.
I would've sold those f-ckers out in a heartbeat after all they did, and all they'd do to others .
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Really bad Stockholm syndrome? There is no moral justification anymore than there is for FGM they discuss at the beginning. No the ends do not justify the means, that is a rationalization and not a moral justification.
shareReally bad Stockholm syndrome? There is no moral justification anymore than there is for FGM they discuss at the beginning. No the ends do not justify the means, that is a rationalization and not a moral justification.
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I was just about to start a thread on this titled "Why does she cover for the tribe at the end?" The only thing I can think of is to help protect their land. I mean, that's why they went there in the first place. She was bad mouthing the workers so maybe the United Nations or somebody was gonna step in and get involved with shutting those people down and protecting that area of the rain forest?
shareHere are my guesses:
(1) Eli Roth is playing homage to the ending of Cannibal Ferox, in which the surviving female protagonist lies to whitewash the indigenous people of their (justifiably) savage behavior.
(2) Justine felt some sympathy for the indigenous people after the young girl helped her escape and mercifully helped put her badly wounded partner out of his misery. Perhaps Justine also realized that unlike Alejandro, the indigenous people were simply living an honest and humble life. Cannibalism is a means by which they nourish themselves; they aren't evil and malicious (although the manner in which the first victim is eaten while still alive very much strains that interpretation of their existence).