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Clarification needed about the ending


Okay, this was a funny and extremely enjoyable film. I first saw it a few nights ago, and will likely watch it again very soon. I just have one question. In the last scene, does the volcano uproot the house, the family stands on the porch and they are drifted to a field with those beautiful mountains and wildlife? The animation doesn't clearly show how they survived the volcano, or how they ended up by those mountains, but that's the best explanation I can think of.

Any help would be great!

I'm a path of cinders
burning under your feet
You're the one who walks me
I'm your one-way street

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I'll give ya a concluyent help: This is a Takashi Miike film. Takashi Miike simply dislike the endings, so he keep doing wathever he wants in each one of the endings of his films. That's the point on Dead or Alive, Ichii the Killer, Visitor Q, etc. So, forget 'bout understanding the finish. They just lift the house and carry it to a better place while a fuc**ing vulcano explodes. It doesn't matter HOW they do or WHY or WHATEVER. They simply do it.

Not at all

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Thanks for the help. This was my first Miike film, in case you can't tell. I still need to get used to his little quirks and trademarks.

I'm a path of cinders
burning under your feet
You're the one who walks me
I'm your one-way street

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B-J-C, i suggest watching Ichi the killer next. It's linked to Katakuris simply by showing the complete opposite of the spectrum of human emotions. Its very different, but shows a lot of Miike's style

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Actually I would suggest Audition or Izo. Those 2 show Miike's more serious side. Ichi and even more Visitor Q. show his off the wall humor even more than Happiness. The only thing different is that it's set in a more realistic setting.

I suggest his Dead or Alive trilogy aswell since it's part serious and part off the wall comedy

Did you ever notice that people who believe in creationism look realy un-evolved? - Bill Hicks

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Actually, Torke, that's wrong. You're given clear shots of them afterwards buried in mud and dirt. The green fields and stuff were a kind of shared delusion and were a metaphor for the way the family has finally come together or something.

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As someone else said, that's mud and trees, not lava. It was a mudslide.

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