Right from the beginning that girl was an annoying brat, I see why she needed a tree stump to be her only friend. I cant believe she would help all those people die. I understand why the mom would since she was a little insane and Otik was her baby (it was her obsession that gave him life) but that girl just wanted someone to boss around. I kept hoping Otik would get hungry and eat her.
shareyou werent meant to like the girl you know.
shareDon't mean to be a stick in the mud, but the girl was my favourite character. I feel that she was the true hero of the film. I don't think that 'you werent meant to like the girl'.
She like nearly all the characters in the film was hilarious.
She was the only person who put everything together and worked out what was going on. She had sympathy for the grotesque Otik. Sure she did, but remember, Otik is an innocent in this tale. Otik is not aware of morals, or that he's commiting an act of murder. Otik is just feeding himself. The girl recognised this, and that is why she was prepared to help him.
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I'm with you on this. I really thought the little girl was the most sympathetic character in the film. She was more together and perceptive than any of the adults. During the first few moments of the film I _expected_ her to be the annoying child character, but as the movie progressed she really developed as a character and the actress did an excellent job.
I also shared your take on Otik as an innocent character; rather like a real baby, he didn't understand much beyond satisfying his own needs. I thought the relationship that developed between Otik and the little girl was a wonderful touch.
I didnt dislike her by any means but I just dont think she was a likeable character or supposed to play some sort of heroine. Her killing people off to save the tree is not, in my opinion, supposed to get people on her side. Where I liked her however is that fact that she was so bizarre. But for the average film watcher, I could see why they disliked her just not why they were going a bit ape about it.
shareI agree with andydavis. The girl rocked!
"I did cramps the way Meryl Streep did accents" - Calliope (Middlesex)
When the girl took the matches, i thought she was ganna do everybody a favor burning Otik. But she was such an evil that she fed Otik with her neighbors. I always hoped to see her eaten by Otik.
By the way, the old lady was so cool!
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I don't know about hilarious, but the movie was semi-entertaining.
But after it ate the cat... seriously... c'mon... common sense time... chainsaw the lil tree spirit.
I say kill that b**** otik! eeeeeuuuuuu...I mean seriously who wouldnt run if you saw a piece of stump come alive!.. Kill Otik Kill Otik!!!! C'mon guys sing it with me now!!!!This is one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen.
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kudos. i was hoping that Otik would eat the little girl, like mostly everyone else on here. with any luck, her fat corpse would get lodged in his throat and there would have been a happy ending. she totally would've messed up that tree's cholestorol, that fatty lumpkin.
shareFolklore says that if you wish Otesanek to eat someone, the same will happen to you.
Don't do any gardening for a while.
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I think murdering innocent people, and trying to raise that "thing" like it's a baby, were both reasons to get more than slapped...
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Oh dear goodness, yes, the little girl needed to be killed. But, I suppose in essence she was the "bad guy" of the film, and as a result she had to be around for the duration of the story. Still though......SUCH an annoying little brat!
shareI live in New York City. 90 percent of the little girls here are EXACTLY like her. Seriously.
shareI thought the little girl was a great actress and played the part very well. I was disappointed she was not eaten, only in that it would have proved a point that Otik did not have any morals when it came to feeding time. By him not eating her, he did appear to have some control, emotions or morals.
I also liked the girl's mother - she eventually wised up when she locked the family in. Seemed like no one cared all these people had gone missing.
On another note - I assumed there was a moral to the way the director portrayed everyone eating their food (the girl w/ her eggs; the dad w/ the soup, etc.). Maybe that we are all a victim to our animal instincts when we eat??? I wasn't quite sure.
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I live in New York City. 90 percent of the little girls here are EXACTLY like her. Seriously.And then they grow up and become your girlfriend.
The little girl was the heroine of the film. She certainly didn't deserve to be killed or eaten; she was the brightest character and noticed the bizarre
events in the story before anyone else (for example, when Otik's "father"
pretends to call the hospital to find out whether the baby was born, she coaches
him on what questions to ask--sex, weight, etc). She's very well-read, much
to the disgust of her father; she's very knowledgeable about the couple's
fertility problems, as well as the old fairy tale which is repeating itself
in the upstairs apartment, which allows her to determine the outcome of events.
She's the most sympathetic character in the story; she becomes Otik's ally
out of loneliness (she has no other children to play with); the only real
attention she gets is from the old pervert who leers at her at every opportunity
(no one believes her when she complains about him). As horrible as Otik is,
she feels some sympathy for him, bringing him toys and food when he's locked
up in the basement; there's actually something sweet in the way he plays with
the toys with his creepy twig arms (when he's not devouring people).
I think this movie would be almost too disturbing to watch without the presence of the little girl.
If you want the Alzbetka to be eaten, you probably are a pedophile, a baby hater, a feminism basher, a stupid moron. Or you maybe just simply didn't get it. ;-)
In reality, the fact is adults cheat children and children cheat adults. The movie interestingly reflects some kind of revengeful relations. Adults are selling babies and eating plants(remember the twigs in the soup?), Otik, as a baby and a plant, is eating people. The old dirty man has desires to little girls, Alzbetka seduces him and feed him to Otik.
So what guilty things Alzbetka has done make you guys hate her so much? Finding the truth and telling the secrert out in the end? Reading some professional books on sex which you probably never read in your life? Killing a pedophile who exposed his dirty thing to her and probably has already raped some poor girls?
Alzbetka is just a brave and smart girl, she is much better than the stupid couple who make innocent people and themselves killed.
Ah- I thought those were nails in the soup. I think the man said something about being so hungry that he could eat nails.
shareYes, they were nails, not twigs, which echoed the father's statement about being so hungry he could eat nails. At first they look like twigs but then you can see some of the heads on them as they move around. It actually reminded me of a Korean banchan more than anything.
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