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The ending sucked, and the justifications are wrong (SPOILERS)

posted 8 years ago by Szabu
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Okay, so in the other treads people are saying that Justine lied to use the media attention to help the cause of saving the rainforest. Sounds plausible, until you remember something.

THIS WAS NOT HER CAUSE to begin with. It was FGM, which horrifed her at the beginning, and what she was talking about for a long while. Hell, the mutilation almost happened to her, you'd think there is SOME consequence, but no.

If she really wants to use the media to help, the obvious, logical and in-character response is to tel the truth and help further the campaign against FGM. This is what would have made sense in every way. She still uses the tactics of Alejandro of media manipulation, but also completed her story arc. That kind of ending would have been so much better in every way.

Not to mention, a way more satisfying ending too. Disappointed. Massively disappointed.

[–] JGnino 8 years ago

You make a good point that it was FGM that caught her attention at the start of the film. If, however, during her trip she gained a much greater appreciation of the (supposedly more globally significant) plight of the Amazonian rainforests, she may have changed her focus to promoting this cause. This theory can be supported by the several scenes where she looks in awe over the lush green landscape. I believe this is also in keeping with the general theme of the movie and an act of great irony that she chose to blame the construction team, the very ones who saved her, in order to continue to the quest to stop them.

[–] erickmarin52 8 years ago

See I was under the impression that it was just part of her nightmare. Simply bc the next scene is her being one of the cannibals and killings Alejandro. So I was confused whether or not the whole interview where she completely lies about the tribe was in fact reality or part of the nightmare she was having.

[–] MikeNTxs 8 years ago

That's an interesting and creative interpretation. Not very obvious but highly plausible if you don't make assumptions about where reality ends and the nightmare begins.

Maybe even highly plausible. Making her decision to lie to the investigators not only irrelevant for discussing motive, but leaving entirely open as to what happened between her rescue and waking in her dorm.

[–] xystophoros 8 years ago

I think she lied because she wants to go back there with some serious hired guns and slaughter the tribe herself. It's intensely personal for her.