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The ending (SPOILER)

posted 15 years ago by joe2002
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I normally hate it when the writers/directors intentionally leave the ending wide open for interpretation like that (Brokedown Palace - which one was really guilty? Both? Neither?, or No Country for Old Men - did he kill the guy's wife or not?, 2001 A Space Oddysey, the whole *($@(*$@# movie was open for interpretation).

But I thought that the girl getting away was an interesting touch - what happened to the plant seeds (viruses?) she was carrying? Did all of Mexico end up getting overrun by these plants thanks to one stupid tourists?

And the two greeks who showed up - so they showed up, so what? What does that mean? That the Mayans would have been so stupid as to let them get away and go get help, or that two stupid greeks would have made a bigger difference than the 6 reasonably intelligent people who showed up before?

I sound like I'm being sarcastic and I partially am, but my point was that though I normally hate ambiguous endings I kind of felt like the way they ended THIS movie "worked".

[–] icechimp 12 years ago

Couple of points: Firstly it's not a virus or spread by spores or else the wind would have spread it from the pyramid long ago, so it's just an evil plant. Secondly, if it did spread through the jungle and into civilisation, I reckon scientists today would be able to sequence its genome and create a species-specific pathogen to attack it - something like 'Dutch Elm Disease'. Any geneticists/Evil Scientists out there verify whether this would be possible?

[–] alanake 12 years ago

I'm an evil scientist and the answer is Yes, it would be a cinch to decode the plant's genome, extract the relevant DNA and then create a weaponised aerosol form which I could then unleash in the city of LA. I think the storyline to Ruins 2 (R2ins?) is in the bag