My alternative ending
my opinion this was average movie but it could've been better if there're no survivors. my ending would be getting the girls shot by the soldiers. Very cold and deferent!
shareI think the problem with that is throwing too much at the audience in terms of dissatisfaction. This movie gave too many tear jerking moments to the viewer. You already have a man giving up his life to save his wife, then you have a sister watching her sister die in front of her, then you have a young girl turning into a zombie as the boy who likes her watches on and the two eventually become zombies together, then finally you have to watch the main character leave his daughter in this epic sad moment as he's turning into a zombie. I think if they just killed these people without having these touching "moments" then your ending would be more easy to handle but having to go through all these moments then having to see the leftover survivor just get shot at the end is real disappointing.
shareEither ending where they kill the pregnant woman and little girl, or not kill them would be fine by me. But there will always be viewers that will disagree with one ending over another, sometimes quite emotionally.
But then again, I feel like if they shot them at the end, it would just be nothing more than to shock the audience. There would be no reason to do so as some of you had mentioned other than to make all earlier attempts at survival to be futile.
Perhaps that's what real life is where we try our best and even through adversity, we still have a bad ending. This movie and the scripts were written based on one person's or a collective group's preference and there would be nothing wrong with them choosing how they want to end their movie. I mean, we can always make our own movies if we want a movie to go our way.
Also, I don't see how not killing them at the end is considered a happy ending. Their families are already dead and we will unlikely to find out whether they will be saved by these soldiers or Busan will end up being like any other overrun cities before them. It's just a matter of preference.