Ana is clearly alive. Eliot is lying about how the injection he gives her "stops rigor mortis from setting in." As a mortician, and not a serial killer, he wouldn't be injecting her with anything, as her blood would not be circulating to disperse the chemical. How does she not catch that?
shareGood point, she misses all of the little clues until the end of the movie when she see's her breath. One can assume that if you think you're in the state of death, that you're not thinking too clearly about other scientific facts of life.
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Injections are many times injected in to muscle only..and yes there are injections to stop rigor mortis from settling in..just google it and find out.
shareI cannot find any information on any post-mortem injections to relieve rigor mortis. I saw reference to massage and bending of joints to relieve rigor.
Any injection into a corpse would just sit in the injection spot.
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you are right. all you need to do to relieve rigor mortis is just to move the joints and massage the muscles. and really, its not that big of a deal, from an embalmers standpoint. all it does is loosen the joints for better positioning. this movie is made of stupid.
shareMedication will not work on dead tissue. Did anyone notice her forehead healed after he stitched it up and dead tissue does not heal. She was very much alive.
More obviously, in all the time she's at the mortuary, she never gets hungry or thirsty, or has to use the restroom?
shareEven though I agree that she's alive, I don't know why so many people use things like this to try and "prove" it.
For example, let's look at that same scenario this way: He can interact with the dead, talking to them, seeing them move, and doing all sorts of things that dead people shouldn't be able to do. The only reason he's injecting them is because they're in some paranormal state of consciousness. He tells her that it'll relax her muscles. Maybe it does absolutely nothing, and he's injecting her with something to stimulate some kind of placebo effect that actually lets the spirit "relax." It has no actual, physical function, and no normal mortician would consider doing it, but because he has the ability to interact with the dead, he tells them what it will do and then gives it to them.
If you can believe that he's lying to her about it "stopping rigor mortis from setting in" then why can't you believe his injecting her with it to begin with is also part of the lie? There's a difference between what a mortician might do under normal circumstances, and what one who can interact with dead people might do.
Even tho I'm convinced anna was alive, your point made me think. that's what i like about the movie, both interpretations are interesting. maybe the whole point is that both are true, it's just what point of view you want to take
shareIf she's alive, then why did she appear as a corpse in her reflection?
If she's dead, why did he rush back to the house when he found he had lost his keys?
Exactly. It seems this movie doesn't know what its trying to convey. Very credible evidence pointing to her being dead and vice versa.
I watched this movie while half asleep and my brain shut off so when it was finished I just assumed she was dead all along and Liam sent Justin to the graveyard to put this love sick loser out of his misery and let him be with the girl he loved.
The thing though is that there really is no CREDIBLE evidence to her being dead. I mean we can all speculate to death (no pun intended), but based on what was shown on the screen she was very much alive.
All the points made about her being dead are mere speculation. Everybody seems to get hung up on the fact that she wasn't thirsty/hungry. So what, how do we know she wasn't fed and used the bathroom while comatosed. We never see this, but so what. We get about an hour snapshot of her 3 days in the morgue, so obviously we weren't shown every little detail about what happened.
She was heavily drugged. As a nurse I can assure you there are several drugs very much capable of inducing the kind of reaction she has that would indeed alleviate feelings of hunger and any sense of reality for that matter in addition to pretty much a complete lack of pain sensation. There are drugs that allow you to have all the blood pumped out of your body, your chest cracked open, heart pretty much stopped, while your body is mutilated and rebuilt without you remembering or knowing while happening. Really, if drugs make this possible, it's not too much of a stretch to believe this drug had similar properties.
It is of course rather unrealistic that she can recover to the point of walking around and fighting, but it's a movie. Those that think she's dead want me to believe it's more believable that there are people out there that can communicate with the dead. Please!! It's a horror movie. How does Mike Myers keep his killing spree going for so long? You have to give some artistic license to movie makers or almost all horror movies could be ripped apart for not being believable.
If she's alive, then why did she appear as a corpse in her reflection?
If she's dead, why did he rush back to the house when he found he had lost his keys
Maybe because she hadn't eaten or drank anything in days. Initially I was confused by the mirror, but I think it's because of her accident, her lack of rehabilitation, and her lack of nutrition.
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