At the end where she is trying to find a way to get out of the desert, why doesn't she just keep on hoping? She has enough time instead of running. Just jump far distances. She did that on the buildings. Maybe theres a reason i'm not getting but, I just don't understand why she didnt just do that.
shareI don't think she'd have enough time to get to safety before the sun came up. I got the impression that they were far, far away from any buildings or places of similar shelter.
shareI wondered why she didn't jump out into the ocean and dive very deep, there would be some rock to hide under or if she went deep enough she could avoid light. It's not like she needs oxygen.
Even do I am no better than a beast do I not have the right to live?
CyberGhostface-1 already gave some good reasons. I just want to add a few comments; at the end of the scene where he jumps with her in his arms, he seems amazed by what he has just done and somewhat tired. There are plenty of scenes in the movie when we can see them making big efforts. And I don't think that lying under the car would kept her alive for long. About the oxygen thing... In the scene in the dam, it is evident that the priest is struggling for air and almost drowning. We see this even in his nightmares or dellusions.
shareUgh, another Vampire movie with the Sunlight crap, I'm so so sick of that.
"When the chips are down... these Civilized people... will Eat each Other"
What's wrong with that? It's a fairly iconic staple of vampire lore.
shareA very recent staple. And a very pathetic one.
"When the chips are down... these Civilized people... will Eat each Other"
It's only 25 years older than the original Dracula novel and an extension on the basic lore that vampires are severely hindered by the sun.
shareNo, it's not older then Dracula, the Dracula novel is the first case of it being any kind of Weakness, and it wasn't fatal till Nosferatu in 1922.
By "25 years older than the original Dracula novel" sounds like your pointing to Carmilla, Carmilla is completely unharmed by Sunlight, nor does it effect her in any way. I see constantly people thinking her being "Languid" is somehow because of Sunlight, but it's not, she's that way 24/7, and is described that way at Night time constantly.
The Sunlight I dislike to being with, but nothing annoys me more then seeing ti written into adaptations of Pre-Dracula vampire stories like Carmilla.
"When the chips are down... these Civilized people... will Eat each Other"
Actually I meant twenty five years AFTER Dracula. Don't know why I wrote older, I was referring to Nosferatu. It was still old enough that Stoker's widow was able to successfully sue for copyright infringement.
shareYou're counting 1922 as "very recent"?
Just how old are you? 200? 300?
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That's still been less then the over 100 years of Vampire literature that passed before.
"When the chips are down... these Civilized people... will Eat each Other"
Kinda necessary for the ending......
I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!
OP I thought the same thing, but figure if you were in that situation you probably would try the least path of resistance first (the trunk and then simply under the car), once she realized there was no place to hide she was screwed...
I kind of thought, why doesn't she just dig a hole and cover herself but...
She could have easily dug a hole/grave and buried herself. He would be dead or in a lot more pain by the time he unburied her and I'm sure she could have done it again. I'm pretty sure they didn't do this because that wouldn't be the end to the movie that they wanted.
shareI'm pretty sure he could have stopped her before she even started to dig.
shareWhen she tried to lay under the car and he rolled it forward to expose her... Why didnt she just hold onto the bottom of the car? That way she would have went forward with the car. Or she might have been able to keep him from pushing the car anyway, she seemed to be stronger than he was.
shareThen he would have turned the car over.
If she was stronger than him, it probably wasn't significantly so. He was definitely able to hold his own.
You people are acting like she was Superman in comparison to him. That wasn't the case.
thats why he filled up on blood before the end? he prolly couldnt have stopped her if he didnt?
Whats that on your face!
I don't think she was stronger than him, she was just uninhibited by morals, thus could fight / kill as she pleased.
shareThis discussion is stupid. You're not reading into this scene as much as you should.
It's not just about her trying to find practical measures to survive. It's an ongoing discussion about what's the right thing to do. She knows he's right the entire time but like the adolescent she is, throughout the entire movie, she struggles on in denial for a while until she finally gives up and sits down next to him on the front of the car.
She didn't give up cause she was out of options, she gave up cause she finally accepted that he was right, that what they'd become wasn't desirable.
There's so much beautiful symbolism going on in this movie and you're missing it all cause you get stuck on details.
You're going to die screaming... and I'm going to watch. Am I telling the truth?
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Because the writers wanted her character to die. Why is that so hard to understand?
shareSo it's a plothole, is that it?
If you advocate one minute or two into the work that went into the characters you'll see the reason why she CHOSE to die in the end.
You're going to die screaming... and I'm going to watch. Am I telling the truth?
Notice how she did try to force him with her into a dark place, signifying that she still needed him. And after a while, she just thought "forget this ****, I'm going to try to do this alone, see if I care if you die."
Like someone said, she was like an adolescent, plain and simple, but it didn't mean she didn't care about him in the least, otherwise she'd just try to get rid of him. After all, becoming a vampire awakened the "beast" inside of them, which means an inclination to killing, killing something at least.
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Like somebody else already suggested, she just didn't want that much to stay alive. At first she struggled a little with both the priest, and her heavy conscience, but when it turned out that a little struggle wouldn't be enough, the heavy conscience won against the survival instinct. She didn't die because "the writers wanted her to", which would mean that the plot was thin. It was not a narrative weakness, it was part of the mechanisms that moved her character from the beginning - we see her struggle between desire to break free and duty / conscience throughout the movie, in various manners.
there's a highway that is curling up like smoke above her shoulder
Why didn't she dive off the cliff and into the Water? There where probably some caved under there.
"When the chips are down... these Civilized people... will Eat each Other"