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About the ending

posted 18 years ago by xSoulFlower
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I never read the book, so I'm just talking about the movie. What really happens in the end? They only show Susan. Susan talking to the police. Susan's parents who wonder what they did wrong. Susan who wishes she could go back to the way things were.

But what about everyone else? What happens to Mark? What happens to the rest? Do they stay friends? Will the others beside Mark get in trouble with the police as well for the kidnapping?

The ending just left me with loads of questions. I don't understand why the focus was only on Susan in the end.

[–] tdmcculley 18 years ago

In the book they don't give anymore details on the other characters. Most people I've talked to hated the ending. Yes it did leave lots of questions, but throughout the book the chapters end very abrubtly and leave you hanging like that so it was just a continuation of the rest of the book.

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[–] sara945 17 years ago

Jeff, Betsy and David will get off with second degree murder, and Susan will be let off..
But Mark will go to a prison for teenagers.

[–] adrinegdakian 17 years ago

I absolutely HATED how the main character, Mark, was the one who had to set the house on fire... or so that's what it says in the book... idk bout the movie..

anyway... i'd've much rather have seen jeff set the house on fire...idk why

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[–] Stratego 11 years ago

Why would Susan be let off? She was just as guilty as the others and she didn't go to the police before them. And second degree murder? You got to be kidding me. They kidnapped him and left him in the middle of nowhere overnight, they didn't know where the pills were. Probably accessory to involuntary manslaughter and even involuntary manslaughter for Mark.

[–] KAnnD86 17 years ago

That annoyed me too. Plus the parents are narrating all of a sudden. The ending was stupid, like they threw it together at the end. Some other closure would have been good.

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[–] doot9-1 16 years ago

me to do yall think she would go to jail and get real time i don't i think she wold get off on community service

[–] DagNastyEvil 11 years ago

From what I remember of the book, Susan and the rest got off relatively easy, considering Mark was the mastermind. Mark was described as a psychopath at the end, and he got sent to either jail/prison or juvenile hall.

The movie ending sucked so much. Mark would have never become a blubbering idiot at the end when his plans fell apart. He would have before he realized there was nothing left, but when they all got into the car and drove off, he should have been seen as emotionless as he was described in the book. They got a lot of his lack of guilt toward the end, but his fall from the top was really bad.

The movie really could have been a lot better. One of the worst moments was at the student speeches they had a moment of silence for Mr. Griffin, and the *beep* morons start talking just below regular volume about what they did, and unless everyone in that *beep* gym was deaf, they would have heard every single word. Horrible, horrible scene logistically.

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