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I can't make up my mind entirely...

posted 16 years ago by Nocturne83
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.....this was a strange film, to say the least, it mixes SF elements with the thriller / serial-killer genre and some horror elements are present too. What a weird mix! What I liked about the film though, was the mood it created, I really felt depressed watching this, knowing it was the end of the world and this was what mankind (or at least these people) were doing during the last three days of their lives. Some stuff were really hard to swallow, but I liked the fact that the film built up the things all the time, and nothing was ever predictable, which is refreshing after watching so many Hollywood fares. The cinematography was also beautiful, and I liked the colors, though you're at an advantage when you're shooting in beautiful and sunny spain.. :) What I didn't like about the film was that it mixed too many genres, and not all of those genres fitted in (for example the rapid horror elements with the more slow-paced SF elements). I also don't know whether I completely liked the ending *Spoilers* I don't mean the meteor, but the girl coming to say goodbye to him. It felt kind of "tacked on" and him playing the guitar by himself while the meteor hits would have sufficed. Whatever - I felt it was worth watching this movie and I'd recommend it. Anyone else feel the same way?

-n0c-

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[–] HarveyManfriedjinnStJohn 14 years ago

***Spoilers Ahead***

I'm kinda confused about the mother's death. Someone else here said she was killed. Really? The gun was left there. The killer would take the gun, right? It seemed to me she committed suicide. But how? They didn't make it seem like she shot herself. She didn't hang herself...unless she fell. Though I did see the son pick up a noose. But it wasn't around her neck. Did I miss something? And she didn't seem suicidal either. After witnessing that suicide, you'd think she wouldn't do something like that. She actually seemed very protective during her time on screen. Was Soro even slightly in the picture when she died at the stream? I didn't think so. I'm thinking now she had a stroke or heart-attack or something. What did I miss there?

I was under the impression that she had a heart attack in the woods after her flashback of Ale's hanging as a child. There was a bit of forshadowing at the beginning when Ale tells his mother to "take her pills" before going to Urbano's, hinting at health problems (presumably a bad heart). That would explain why the shotgun was left at the scene.

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