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question about the ending


what exactly happened?
the continuity went all over the place, and I kinda got lost

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I'm from Argentina, so I think I can help you...
Apparently after discovering them, the mother, emotionally shocked as she was, tried to commit suicide but they stopped her. But after seeing what she saw, she had already lost it, I mean something in her head cracked and she became crazy, that's why she was never able to tell anyone what she had seen.

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I thought the mother finally saw everything with her own eyes (though she was maybe in denial?) but despite her anger/shock etc, she forgave them and loved them as her children anyway. That's how I saw it.

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it can be true or not that the mother tried to suicide. that's told by jeremías and actually he's telling a lie (the scar's origin). but we can say without doubt that the mother went insane and ¿forgot? all about the incest. a way to keep herself sane, if you accept this contradiction.

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I took it as though she had taken a bullet to the head and thus experienced some brain damage.

The intriguing part for me was whether she did attempt to shoot herself, or if the twins shot her to keep their secret.

Either way the son is telling a lie in the origin of the scar, so I think after the mother cut the son with the glass, the daughter then shot the mother.

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I had a question about that too. On the one hand, there's nothing that lets you deduce that any gun at all was fired. I took it to mean that the boy lied about the entire account, including the gun. But it was pretty brazen on his part to assume that the mother would permanently "forget". I mean, what if she one day snapped out of it?

Here's the other thing: why would anyone else believe that the mother was suicidal in the first place?
Also: it seems that the other brother is not the only one who knows the truth. What about the brother's wife?
She had a kind of breakdown out in the woods that one night. What else could she have been crying about?

All in all, I'm glad for independent films! Just to think of what else might be out there in the world, waiting for us to view!

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