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Help understanding the movie?


I watched the film at the Sundance Film Festival site and I want to know more about it, particularly about the ending. Are the killing him or just raping him and why exactly? Does anybody know if the short story explains more? I thought the acting and ambiance was incredible, even though the ending left me feeling short changed.

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I agree that the ending was unclear (purposely, I suppose), but my take was that Ben gets raped at the end, and is now bugaddicted to boot. A dark film, but beautifully made. And a supremely confident young filmmaker. I hope we see more from Carter Smith.

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I don't really get the ending either. In the short story ben sees the clothes of several other "victims" which makes me think they kill the bug newbies, but i don't know.

it seems like if they just wanted to have sex with him it wouldn't be too hard to do, he was already obsessed with grant

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I'm not sure what there is to get. He is brutally gang raped by arrogant punks who have an addiction to psychedelic bugs, the end.

I thought it was a great film and caught it at a screening where I met Carter Smith. He also stated that the film is not a metaphor or moral tale in any way (he seemed to feel strongly about saying this because some people thought it was an anti-gay message).

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I actually thought it was about spreading HIV. "Bugchasing" is a term used to try and get HIV - purposely. I figured that he didnt know what he was getting into and they were in turn giving him "The bug".

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