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A question about the ending


The ending was kind of hard for me to understand...so Hector falls into that cellar type thing in the house and starts tweaking out (I assume he never escaped and died there) and the very last scene shows Dorena walking on the road away from the house and starts it shows her morphing into a young girl. Is this symbolic for something or meant to be interpreted in any ways?
Any help would be much appreciated, thanx.
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That was her most mature emotional state, and where she felt she was at once again..She felt like a little girl inundated and traumatized by the evils of what she had been through.

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I agree with blackwingbear, but I also saw the ending as her getting back the innocence she had as a little girl.

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Hi guys, You are all pretty close, but the fact is Doreana is the little girl we see in the ditch at the beginning of the film. She was abandoned by her alcholic father and abducted by a biker gang where she became a top cooker and the biker a father figure died and she was again lost and alone. Enter Hector who took the role of a father figure/ lover. Doreana has a fatal weakness it is based in the feeling of abandonment she felt as a child and never recovered from. Hector even tells her she is valuable property now because she is a "cooker and she'll never get left behind again." Not knowing Hector is dying in the cistern terrified and dillusional from the drug and or the supernatural so it may seem she is guided from the closet through a hole in the roof by the ghostly image of her past child. We see her alone and wandering down the road much like she had done as a child and inside she feels just as she did after her father left her alone in the ditch alone , worthless and unwanted which ironically is the phsycological effect that meth gives it's users when it is wearing off after a long binge. I was the first person to read the script and convinced the writer/Producer and a good friend of mine, Jeff Ritchie we needed to make the film. I was the Line Producer but I think I got it pretty straight

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I absolutly loved this movie to death but had a hard time with the end too. Thanks for explaining it, it makes the movie tie up for me. My favorite part is where Merl is telling the story about the little girl in her bedroom, and Hec sees the figure in the next room. Freaky! Love how it was shot too, love it love it love it!!

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That was my favorite scene too. I nearly *beep* my pants when that happened. This film is one of the few films made in the past decade that manages to actually be scary & genuinely unsettling. It just goes to show that you don't have to have a big, bloated budget to make a good film.

And I think it's ashamed that Brad Hunt doesn't get more good roles. I think he definetly has the talent.

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Thanks for your explanation, it makes great sense!

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Just wanted to let you know your film was great. I worked two years undercover selling and buying meth in Southern California back in the late 80's and you guys captured high level meth intox right on the money. Great job and a very well done film.

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Ah ha! That makes total sense now. I kind of thought they were haunted by "ghosts" from their own past. This movie rocked! I had no expectations on my first viewing and found myself breathing hard and saying "Wow." at the end. Excellent film.

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yea the movie was good, and i like how when he fell down the well with all that meth he was kinda in his own heaven/hell. he's stuck down there, but at least he's got enough meth.

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