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Great movie except for ending SPOILER

posted 16 years ago by kelikristina
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I liked how Ely blew up the aquaduct at the end, although I would have liked to see more into the future (a scene with the waterpark really busy, the cola plant gone, etc...).

I also would have liked to have more closure with Blue and Skye. Not to sound sleazy, but I was hoping for some kind of a scene with them being intimate. He poured out his heart to her and told her his deepest secrets. As a viewer, I felt like that would have connected them more, or connected their hearts more. I guess I am having a hard time understanding their relationship. Was it a fling? Or were they in love with each other? Or falling in love? I feel like the relationship was more than a fling, but the ending suggests otherwise, IMO. I would have liked to see Skye's character deciding to stay in Baxter. When she chose Blue over the phone call in the end, I think that was kind of symbolic (that her priorities changed), but either way, it would have been nice to have more of a definite ending.

What does everyone think?

[–] deak82 16 years ago

I concur.

[–] Lynxolita 16 years ago

I don't think it was a fling or true love. I felt their relationship was one of understanding. They connected with eachother and opened up about eachothers worlds, but it would have been extremely out of character for Skye to suddenly drop her whole life to live in the middle of nowhere just for some guy. She had a life she was happy with and a career that was moving forward, she was too big for a place like Baxter, and Blue had his plans for the future as well. I'd say they kept in touch and that Skye's character probablly would have come back to Baxter to visit from time to time but nothing more than that.
I think their relationship had served it's purpose by the end. He softened her up, made her open up to the world a little bit more, and the people she'd normally look down on and she helped him somewhat come to terms with his fathers death. It was never about sex or love or a relationship, they both knew that it could never work that way. It was just all about understanding.

I personally would have been upset if the director had "hollywoodized" the ending, with Skye changing her whole life for a man and the cola plant gone and all that. That is about as far from real life as you could get. Theres no way a major cola plant would go out of business because someone blew up the water tank, and sadly Ely would have most definately been arrested for doing that.

The director left it at the perfect place because for people like you and me who have different opinions, we can both imagine what happened after that in our own ways.

[–] pbento68 13 years ago

You read my mind. I have to admit that it would have been nice to see these characters get their "happy ending". But I am glad they didn't go there, for reasons you articulated quite well.

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[–] Alpha86 11 years ago

I thought the ending was perfect like it was.