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What happened in the end?


I'm lost. Why did the daughter get shot on the roof? I really don't get it, the boy got dragged off and she was left there...

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i dont get it either. a great film plagued by a questionable ending....

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I just finished the film a few minutes ago. I think the implication is that Corporal Casey was covered in blood and had the old scarring on her face and the "clean-up" detail assumed she had been bitten and infected. The shot was probably some sort of poison they were using to put down the creatures. They wouldn't want to use guns as it would splatter blood, and possible infection, back on the clean-up crews. This is reminiscent (and probably a nod to) the final tragic scene in Romero's Night of the Living Dead...the grandaddy of all modern zombie/plague carrier movies.

The boy was dragged off because they assumed he was just a hysterical teenager who was too traumatized to realize he was being rescued...possibly...they probably also wanted to get him to a hospital (or mobile lab unit) and tested to ensure he wasn't infected.

The big assumption here is that the government truly wanted to save the survivors rather than just finish everybody off as possible sources of contamination. Declaring there were no survivors would also make all that government sanctioned urban renewal a whole lot easier...no one to protest the "yuppification" of older neighborhoods. After all, you can't bomb the city and blow up all that valuable real estate... of course, that's just the really cynical possibility :)
Amberwine

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i'll buy that, thanks!

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I think you are probably right (or on the right track). She looked like she was infected (and maybe looked like she was about to attack the kid??).

And maybe the whole rat thing is a creative twist on rat posion?

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Thanks. I got the allusion to NOTLD but didn't get that they thought she had already turned. Yea, rat poison too.

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