I know this question has been asked before,but does anyone have any thoughts on it?
"It's hip to be square"- Patrick Bateman
I just re-watched the film, and while I hadn't had any particular answer to this question the first time around, I think I've got one now - she screams because the wolf who comes in through her window is herself, and she has to face who and what she is/is becoming.
shareDeep dude.
shareI interpreted the whole movie as the dream of a girl who just lost her virginity and was having trouble dealing with it. By the end she's come to terms that she's no longer a virgin (one of the wolves) and in the dream, she runs away to be with them (the other non-virgins). But... when she wakes, thinking that she's finally accepted it, it hits her once again. The wolf's not really there, its her guilt (brought on by society and most forcefully in the dreams, her grandmother's stories).
Further evidence for this would be the shot of a white flower turning blood red and having just about every conversation be an allusion to sex.
Also, there isn't a hell of a lot of plot, so either its allegorical or pointless.
When Rosaleen tells the story of the Wolf Woman it is her father who shoots the wolf. She says "she never meant anybody harm, but someone wished her harm." Her elder sister died because she strayed from the path and the wolves "got" her, although inshe seems unharmed in the coffin and in the flashback they do not attack. Rosaleen is facing puberty, whice is what I think is symbolised by all the blood and in particular the bloody flower. But her curiosity about fertily and sex does tend to imply that she is still a virgin.
But her father in particular seems a sort of threat - the mother has to force him not to shoot her in the end where she is breaking free. I got the feeling that the father was dangerous to her, especially now her sister is gone.
I think Rosaleen is starting puberty and the dream seems to show the kind of mate she would prefer: sophisticated Frenchman in sexy brithches over pallid villiage youths any day. It also makes clear that Rosaleen can rescue herself. It is her dream after all.
There is obviously something wrong with Rosaleen locking herself in her room
and refusing toc come out: she must feel some sort of theat. After an empowering dream where she takes control of her sexuality she awakes to lying powerlessly in her bed while a wolf (could definitely be herself) breaks in. Of course, as said above, she screams because a wolf broke in. Who wouldn't? But having had a dream that resolved certain issues and let her id and free sexuality shine through freely, reality is frighteningly unresolved.
By the way I think it was the father who shot the she wolf - just saw it for a second so not sure, in which case the above is beloney.
I think she is a newly menstuating girl with daddy issues.
In the commentary by Jordan on my DVD he says that he thinks the ending is perfect except for the fact that Rosaleen screams. In retrospect he said that he wished he had ended it with her displaying the same sort of 'curiosity' she showed towards the huntsman instead of being scared.
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One proposed ending for the film would have featured Rosaleen diving into the floor of her bedroom and being swallowed up as by water; this is reminscent of the story of the she-wolf going back into the well. However, In the DVD commentary for the film, Jordan notes that the limited technology of the time prevented the production of such a sequence, whereas later CGI effects would in fact make it quite simple.
shareIn the commentary by Jordan on my DVD he says that he thinks the ending is perfect except for the fact that Rosaleen screams.I agree. It wasn't consistent with the overall tone and feel of the rest of the film. I think Jordan was originally thinking of having a traditional horror scream ending, but I don't really think Rosaleen would have behaved that way om awakening from her dream/nightmare.🐭 share
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Absolutely, Ouji, rduke and maea.
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It seemed like an allegory on rape. At the end, the 'wolf' or rapist was breaking into her room. If you listen to the poem recited at the end, it kinda backs the theory up.
shareI took the wolves bursting in as a symbol for the demands of adulthood, particularly the need to deal with demanding and uncouth men. The bursting in says that, like it or not, its coming, and the scream shows that she understands this, but she is not ready for it.
shareIt is not the wolves and she has not yet had sex, it is her menstrual process that has began for the first time.
shareMy take is similar to that of several others who have responded here.
The girl has begun to adopt the "things" of womanhood - lipstick and such. Her body and her mind are transitioning to womanhood. She has urges and thoughts that she cannot yet understand. At the end, as the wolf breaks through her window, he topples the things of childhood onto the floor. Some part of the girl understands that her childhood has ended. And I agree with others that much of the blood symbolizes menstruation, which must be a scary process for a young girl when it first happens.
I thought the scream was quite appropriate. Her life is changing unalterably, and she can never go back to the innocence of her girlhood.