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I Don't Get It?

posted 13 years ago by butterflyalyssa11
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The message board for this film doesn't really offer much explanation, or help in my understanding of what happened. Like, I get that "The Nameless" wanted to pervert the girl... But that's about all I get. They wanted to find someone to experience great pain, so they do all this and all that, just to have Claudia see her daughter kill herself? (If that was even really her daughter?)

I don't know... maybe that IS all there is to it.
But I'd like some other opinions here if anyone else got more from the movie than what I got.

I didn't dislike it; it definitely was suspenseful. But then in the end, I'm just left with a big question mark above my head, like "Wtf?"

[–] alarakalama 13 years ago

I think the idea was to have Claudia kill her mother...

[–] Temporary_Jesus 12 years ago

My interpretation.

The father and his group wanted to pervert the child. The father thought the ultimate torment would be for the girl to kill her own mother (I think the father simply wanted his wife dead). However the girl understood torment (perversion) better than the father.

What could be worse for a mother than seeing her own child kill themself? The girl had been 'groomed' into wanting to inflict extreme torment on her mother, and she realised that simply killing her wasn't enough.

The whole movie was set up to increase the mothers hope and love for her child, making the ending that much more painful. Thinking her child is officially dead, then the great hope of her possibly being alive.

[–] Ariane67 10 years ago

I fully share this point of view. Ultimate psychological torture.

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[–] MicahFish 10 years ago

Okay, I get that- but what's the point? All these clues and such, when they could have done it in a much simpler way. Not only that but what kind of gratification does the group get? It felt pointless.

[–] aderowley-1 8 years ago

POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD

It was indeed absolutely, utterly and completely pointless. There is a possibility that Ramsey Campbell's novel was lost in translation somewhere, but even then the narrative is so weak you could drink it without side effects. The movie spends a lot of time discussing the "synthesis" of "pure evil" but that never receives an explanation. How is grooming a child by exposing it to nasty pictures and murder synthesising evil? Nothing happens because of it. It is not like you can do that and the devil will appear. It is a notion and nothing more. Nothing is achieved by it. The point at the end is, as the other contributor stated, the suffering of the mother, but so what? So long as she survives the rest of the group, in time she would move on and conclude that her daughter was sadly abducted by weirdos and groomed - sad but true, these things do happen in life. It would have no long-term, devastating, lasting effects on the world. The director has made some really superior horror and suspense movies, so my only problem with this one is that any magazine might consider it in the top 300, but otherwise it is very forgetable, mediocre and not that good in any way.

One thing I would advise anybody with questions is to read the novel by Ramsey Campbell. It might be hard to find in print now, but for 100 per cent sure you can obtain it on Kindle and maybe some other readers. It may well answer far more questions that speculating on it.