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The ending ruined it and the Villagers were unquestionably evil

posted 9 years ago by robbwolf
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My mouth just dropped as she lied to protect the cannibals. Why??? To make sure Alijandro doesn't get rescued? What about the people that stumble in to the territory of those cannibals in the future? For that matter, as evil as Alijandro was, his evil pales beside that of the cannibals. By leaving Alijandro with those cannibals when she could easily have him rescued makes her 100 times worse!

An argument has been made that the villagers aren't evil because "this is their culture". I don't buy that. There are certain taboos that are so universal they show up in almost every culture and on every continent throughout recorded history. Cannibalism is one of them.

Also, I don't buy that the villagers thought these kids were the enemy. All the cannibal warriors were male as were any mercenaries they would have seen previously. By the standards of their own culture and what little they had seen elsewhere, there is no reason for the villagers to believe that the women were dangerous enemies.

I thought the film was quite good until that horrible ending. Roth did the dame thing in his Hostel movies where the protagonists turn evil at the end for no good reason what so ever.

[–] robbwolf 9 years ago

Thematically, it makes no sense. Were the 19th Century Abolitionists simply playing a big game? Millions of people were spared the horrors of slavery due to their activism so I would have to say that Mr. Roth's thesis is deeply flawed.

Story wise, it makes no sense. Justine is willing to forgive the cannibals but she can't forgive Alejandro? If she wants revenge against Alejandro, wouldn't she want revenge against the cannibals? The film establishes early on that Justine wants to stop forced female circumcision and rightfully doesn't care if it's part of somebody else's "culture". So why does she suddenly appreciate the cannibal "culture"? If Justine lied to save the boy, how does she know the cannibals wont figure it out and punish him in some hideous fashion? Possibly kill and maybe eat him? What about other people, including other indigenous people, who enter in to the cannibals territory? If she did it to become famous, that makes no sense either. She would already be famous simply for surviving the ordeal. She would be given endless opportunities for cash and fame.

[–] boudicea1967 9 years ago

I can see your point. She looks at Alejandro with disdain as if he betrayed her.

I do not think the villagers were evil, I think that they thought the activists were their enemies and exocannibalism is the consumption of an enemy by the villagers as some sort of victory. The villagers have had virtually no to little contact with other people to know that not everyone who seems alike have similar motives. How were the villagers suppose to know that the students were trying to help them? None of them even remotely could communicate with each other, though I did hear some Spanish that they were speaking. It does strike me weird that they did not have a guide to go along with them.

All the villagers know is that people who dress like the students are plowing down their home and they are striking back. I did not quite get that Justine suddenly keeps silent about things that she felt strongly about. Or, maybe it taught her to just leave people alone and in a way "put her in her place" if that makes sense.

[–] TheDarkKnightMatter 9 years ago

Alejandro was the reason why they are in there in the first place. The stupid remarks that he made about eating the fat guy first and darting his own people so he won't be the only one there. He was a con man out for fame, he didn't care about saving anything or anyone. I would of don't the same and left him to die.

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[–] lawman800 9 years ago

Why didn't Alejandro just run out with the other people? Was he seriously thinking that he can wait it out until the bulldozers come? How does he even figure he will be the last one eaten anyway even if there were others with him inside the cage? Looks like Jonah and Amy and Samantha didn't last that long as meals anyway and even Lars only bought him a few hours it appears. Alejandro would have been eaten by the time Justine was on the airplane.

[–] Lupin-III 9 years ago

It makes perfect sense because everyone in this movie was a total *beep* moron and her actions are completely inline with those of a total *beep* moron.

The first transport is away... hey!

[–] JasonRebourne 9 years ago

The protagonists in Hostel didn't turn evil.

[–] robbwolf 9 years ago

In Hostel 2 there is an implication that the survivors from both movies simply went on with their lives and never did anything to Elite Hunting to the authorities. That said, I like the Hostel films. While Elite Hunting is thankfully improbable (at least as depicted) the metaphor for societies that profit from the exploitation of the less fortunate is very strong. In Hostel 2 I was eerily reminded of how we buy cheap products made by workers under poor conditions in third world countries.

[–] JasonRebourne 9 years ago

But the protagonists in Hostel didn't turn evil. They were just powerless to stop Elite Hunting.

The b!tch in Green Inferno lied to protect cannibals.

[–] Synetech 9 years ago

All we know about Paxton is that someone from Elite Hunting tracked him down and murdered him in his house, so it’s not clear what he was like after escaping. As for Beth, she specifically went out of her way to kill the guy; that may or may not have been a one-off revenge killing. And I don’t recall the end of Hostel 3 at the moment. It was however pretty clear that at least some of the villagers in Hostel (1) were aware of and indifferent to the torture and murder of tourists.

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[–] ScorpionTDC 9 years ago

Paxton went into hiding because he feared for his life (something which turned out to be VERY accurate), not because he was pro-Elite Hunting. Beth probably took a similar stance. Fighting them is suicide

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[–] Bobby Briggs Briganza 9 years ago

An argument has been made that the villagers aren't evil because "this is their culture".

An argument has been made? By whom? The Great Argue Machine way up on Argue Mountain?

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[–] robbwolf 9 years ago

Other posts on this message board. No need to be uncivil.

[–] Bobby Briggs Briganza 9 years ago

Then why not respond to the person who made that post, on that thread, instead of making it as though it were some major considered position “out there” that we should consider? I’m sure if you look at the looloo stating that opinion, you’ll see they are a troll that just signed up for IMDb the other day.

It’s like, somebody says something kooky in a thread on IMDb, like “Pigs actually taste like marshmallows” and you start a new thread to prove how No, in fact, pigs do not taste like marshmallows "as it as been claimed."

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[–] osvazas 9 years ago

you are not very smart are you?

[–] GuyAwks 9 years ago

The ending annoyed me too. Justine's priorities were massively screwed if she thought getting revenge on Alejandro was more important than getting revenge on the tribe. I could somewhat understand her leaving Alejandro behind when she was fleeing (after the stunt he pulled with Lars, he could easily pull the same on her). But the lying, both about him and the cannibals, was overkill and really impaired my ability to empathise with her.

Not only do her friends go through horrific and dehumanising deaths, they're denied the respect of having people know what happened to them. I get that Eli was trying to do something different than most Final Girl movie endings, but I would have preferred something generic here.

[–] ccharlie183 9 years ago

it's a parody of leftists, the xenophile, white usually jews who push for every single cause except for their own interests. who'll risk their life to save people who'd eat them alive and colonize them for their altruism. this is not an adventure horror, it's a comedy, a right wing comedy.

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[–] ryancomfort-894-28428 9 years ago

this is exactly what i thought too.

[–] bdhrentertainment 9 years ago

That's the culture of the village. They aren't evil per se. That's the only thing they ever known. They're a product of their enviorment. 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.

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.

[–] ScorpionTDC 9 years ago

That's the culture of the village. They aren't evil per se. That's the only thing they ever known. They're a product of their enviorment. 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.

Oh bite me. Nazi culture said genocide was accepted, so I guess Nazis aren't evil too by your definition.

Murdering a bunch of people because they ~MIGHT~ be a threat when:
A) They have done nothing threatening
B) They have not remotely attacked you

Is evil. Plain and simple. And I will openly condemn a culture for it.

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[–] Synetech 9 years ago

Thank you! I am relieved to see someone with a bit of sense. Empathy and compassion are not cultural. In some scenes, they tortured them specifically for the purpose of hurting them, knowing exactly what they were doing. That is not a “cultural difference”.

As for why she lied, I explained that here:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2403021/board/nest/251812440?d=253058498#253058498

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