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So many plot holes!!

posted 14 years ago by rhcp1fleafan
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I thought I was going to like this movie, but with so many plot holes I don't understand how anyone would like this?

So the boy has vampire symptoms and is even called a "vampire" but he isn't a vampire?

The "feral child" gets along with the nuns during the day but at night kills everyone easily. Well, everyone except the main character.

The kids have the great idea to kidnap a child from an orphanage and are merely scolded my the nuns?

The main character wonders why he recognizes the song they are singing at the orphanage?

Why does the child look like she is the same age as when she originally escaped?

Why do the kids go to school at night in the beginning?

Whats up with the feral child's white/ black eyes?

There are so many better foreign and/or scary movies out there. A movie cant be enjoyable when it ends with so many unanswered questions.

[–] kmgault 14 years ago

I have a question....

Was the Germans' car wrecked in the woods so Dimas could keep his murders secret?

How had no one noticed that the Germans never arrived back?

Also, there were 2 graves in the woods nearby the wrecked car, supposedly that of Erika's parents and that it seemed Erika used the car as a hideout....I was confused as to whether the old man at the end was telling the real story or if there was more to it?!?!?!

[–] electrique 14 years ago

-Yes.

-I'm not sure. Maybe they didn't have any other family members, or maybe the family members still thought they were in Africa. Or even more reasonable, Dimas could've lied to any one who wondered where they were and said they left.

-I think the old man was telling the truth. I think the girl missed her parents and her sleeping in the car was her attempt to remain to close to them.

Hope this helps!

Le temps détruit tout.

[–] electrique 14 years ago

-The kid had photophobia, which is real. The kids who called him a vampire were just jerks.

-She attacked one of the nuns...so no she didn't get along with them.

-? They weren't trying to kidnap a kid, they were trying to find out more information about Erika Hassel.

-Huh?

-The film never specifies how much time past between Santio arriving and the girls parents dying.

-Night schools do exist.

-Someone posted in another thread that when a cat is about to attack their pupils get big. Since the girl is feral, she exibits animalistic qualities.

-I think this was a really good movie...a lot of movies end with unanswered questions. Doesn't affect the quality of the movie in my opinion.

I hope my answers help you out.

Le temps détruit tout.

[–] polaris2 14 years ago

electrique, I agree with your explanations that the plot holes are not plot holes. But the question about the song was actually kind of interesting -- when they're hiding in the orphanage before they get caught, a child is singing, and Santi says something about the tune being familiar. That did seem like an unresolved point, though not an important one. But I just now connected it, maybe, with the fact that during the credits there's a song with a child singing... was that the same song? Did it mean something? I didn't watch the whole credits and I don't want to take it back out of the Netflix envelope! ?????

[–] electrique 14 years ago

Yeah at the time I didn't think it was that important, but you're right it is interesting.

Well Netflix has it on it's Watch Instantly feature if you're interested. =) I actually might go back and watch that scene and the credits myself.

Le temps détruit tout.

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[–] kroy09 14 years ago

Creepiest scene in the whole film: When Erika "visits" Santi while he is sleeping in his bed (not when he's asleep on the couch).

I guess it's faint, but Erika is singing or humming the same tune that the children sing at the orphanage. Because Santi feels it was just a dream (was it?), he can't quite remember where he heard the tune before.

[–] Mastadge 13 years ago

The song is presumably what she was "whispering in his ear" after she killed the one-eyed shepherd fellow.

[–] XNSuper 13 years ago

yea i thought the song he recognized was the song she sang in his "dream" when she stole geko.

also i thought the same thing about how she was the same age when her parents were killed as to now...but then i realized..the emphasized she was a feral child before she lived in the country side and it had only been a year since the Germans "moved"

[–] Rena_Mahone 13 years ago

Even if I liked this movie, I agree that it has several plot holes.
Anyway, two of those you posted are not plot holes, not completely, at least.

"So the boy has vampire symptoms and is even called a "vampire" but he isn't a vampire?"
He isn't a vampire. He suffers from photophobia, that's why he cannot be exposed to sun light. As for his sharp teeth, I have no idea if it's actually a symptome of the disease or not.

"Why do the kids go to school at night in the beginning?"
Haven't you heard of going to school in the evening? It's a common thing nowadays. In the movie, it is said that the main character and his friend attend evening classes, which is clearly to avoid sun light.

Boycott movies that involve real animal violence! (and their directors too)

[–] sane1216 12 years ago

I don't agree with everything you listed, but as usual in movies the characters are sometimes written in a way that makes me want to smack the writers. With all the stuff in their house and the information they found on the internet about a feral child coupled with the nun who was attacked, I really don't understand why nobody listened to them or they didn't work on a decent way of present their evidence to the detective, his mom and his dad. If you know there's a killer in the woods, why would you go out there at night. Especially considering how scared Santi was when she was in his house.

For me, that was the big plot hole and there would have been clever ways to still writ ein suspense and thrills around that scenario as well.

[–] MrBelette 11 years ago

"I don't understand how anyone would like this? "

People who really understood it I suppose.

[–] chilone 8 years ago

"I don't understand how anyone would like this? "

That's why you don't understand.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!