What do you think of that bizarre sex-shot at the end of the film??

I think brave of the director because it was information that the audience needed and he wasnt afraid to shy away. It was difficult subject matter throughout the film and I think that by not giving use a gruesome visual at the end but rather by just showing a hut and adding in the moan leaves everything to the audiences imagination. I think the director was brilliant in how he brought forth the expose.

I thought it was depressing! On DVD it gives us 2 shocking endings, tho. The one you are referring too left me feeling sad & depressed imaging what kids go thru in real life with monster like that. Wold have been nice if I could have walked away feeling rejoiced because the bad guy was caught but I guess the director wanted o keep it real & leave something on our minds!

Tungusqa, I disagree that the goal of the final shot was to make it clear that he really is the killer. I thought that was fairly evident from the opening scenes. Cleaning himself up, packaging the evidence and showing the hut with flys buzzing around were convincers to me. I believe the goal was to show that after all that happened and was learned throughout the movie, he was still in operation.

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I was a bit disappointed. I thought the movie was grim but brave, especially the end (before the last shot) - watching the journalist walk away, everyone thinking he's a hero, but the audience knows he completely sold his soul - no redemption for him or his team, no redemption of the situation (American movies NEVER do that). But then to have what I thought was a totally gratuitous shot added to the end, and so obvious, like the director thought we were too stupid to understand what the whole movie was about if he didn't S-P-E-L-L I-T O-U-T. I think any audience member who would take the time to watch this movie didn't need that shot!

Umm...you guys are all missing the meaning of the scene.
It's to provide a sharp counter-point to the birth scene that ocurred several minutes before. Recall that we hear his wife panting (and moaning) very hard, and bringing Vinicio's son into the world.
Minutes later, we hear Vinicio panting, and almost certainly taking the life of her son.
C'mon, people. The director wouldn't've just thrown away as powerful a scene as a woman giving birth. Did you all even remember what went on before the ending?

I have to agree with those who thought this movie to be very thought provoking and well made. The final scene of the hut was, in my opinion, done very tastefully considering what some tasteless directors would have shown. Ones imagination can suggest what we don't see is much worse than if we had actually seen it. So to the person who said Less is More, I totally agree.

As for those who can't seem to understand why some directors don't end a story the way we all want it to end, that being the bad guy gets caught and we all see him hang for his crimes, you have to understand the subtle hints that we were given to suggest this "monster" finally got what was coming to him.
The most obvious hint was of course that fact that his last victim was his own stepson who he had picked up from school. If the police couldn't figure it out just from that, then they lack the intelligence to be police and deserve whatever they get. Another hint, not as revealing, was when Vinicio's wife is watching the news report on television while bleaching the shirt he had given to Robert. The reporter mentioned a red checkered shirt the latest victim was wearing when he disappeared. The red tint in the water where she was bleaching the shirt suggested, at least to me, that she was beginning to become concerned herself. The very beginning of the film shows him bleaching a red checked shirt until the red checks are gone but a slight red tint still remains.

And one more hint I got out of the ending, was when the female producer refused to walk with Manolo but instead walked behind him to the plane giving me the impression that once they were safe back in Miami she would reveal the truth to someone. She was obviously very distraught and upset that they had allowed Robert to be the last victim and did nothing to save him.

Yes they were scared they could be held as accomplices simply because during their entire interviews they suspected this guy of being the killer but never gave any info to the police. And Manolo had demanded, begged and pleaded with Victor NOT to show the report about Vinicio because he knew what would happen if the interview was shown, and that was pretty much what did happen. He was released from prison. And the public would have crucified Manolo for garnering all this sympathy and support for this killer and getting him released to kill again, knowing he was the killer.

So while we never actually see Vincicio get caught and punished, we can assume that Robert was in deed his final victim and he pretty much knew it would be. After all, how could anyone not know that the first suspect in any killing is the last person the victim saw. At least in most cases that is the first suspect.

I loved the ending. It was perfect. That long shot of Don Manolo walking to the airplane with that really cool song playing in the background was great. And then it all stops and you just see this image of a stone hut and you hear the sound of someone panting/moaning. It's subtle, but it's obvious to the viewer that Vinicio is the Monster.

I don't know if anyone else felt this way, but I actually thought he was raping his own son in the last scene. The scene preceding that where he is talking to his son and says something like "I didn't want it to be this way, but I have to do it" made it seem like that was the case. Plus, the fact that he was drinking and was with his son in the middle of the woods really led me to believe that. Anyone else get this vibe?