Someone Pls Explain - Didn't Understand the Ending - Spoilers

Why are you looking for a logic explanation in a such crazy film?

I recently had the chance to view Vinyan and have a few comments that I hope will help with your questions.

1. I believe the "trusted captain" didn't leave them behind, but was in fact the body seen hanging from the tree just after Paul and Jeanne's departure from the abandoned shanty town. He had the same hair style and clothing and was being stoned by the children standing in the tree above him.

2. If you recall, at the very beginning of the film there was a prolonged shot of a person who could only have been their son Joshua flailing beneath surging water that eventually turned red with blood. I believe that what the filmmaker wants us to believe that Paul was unable to help his son during the tsunami, and bears a greater burden of responsibility for his death(whether such an attitude is fair or not is impossible to know as that part of the story is left intentionally ambiguous). Since the "children" are probably meant to be VINYAN(the angry spirits of those killed by violent or horrific circumstance mentioned by some characters earlier in the movie), they killed Paul as punishment for his failure. Again, whether such a thing was deserved or not is hard to tell, but given the look of condemnation and certainty on Jeanne's face when first confronting him about the subject later in the film("You let him go."), Paul's fate seemed sealed.

3. I believe the children didn't kill Jeanne because she was the only one of the film's main character's to be "faultless." Most, if not all, others were criminals with apparent ties to child trafficking(even Thaksin Gao, the character assisting them on their trip, attempted to sell them a child that wasn't theirs to take the place of Joshua and was eventually stoned/buried alive by the children in the pit near the ruins) or the husband/father Paul, who seems to have been condemned by his inability to save his son.

Films like Vinyan tend to be open to a great deal of interpretation and deciphering them can be either an interesting part of the experience or an annoyingly frustrating one. Either way, I hope this helped.

One other idea I've had regarding the children murdering Paul is that when Jeanne mentioned he had failed Joshua("You let him go.")she was in fact referring to his apparent willingness to accept their son's death and move on, something she wouldn't or was unable to do. Regardless, whichever theory is correct, she and the VINYAN apparently saw him as deserving a rather harsh judgement.

Poor Paul.

The reason she remained alive was because she had become Vinyan. The reason the men were killed was because they were still human, still had a soul. These sad, horrid deaths would've turned them to Vinyan I'm sure. She was already there, and you can see her degenerating through the film.
If her son was deceased, he would've also been vinyan. This is why she was able to see him in all of them. She basically found exactly what she was looking for.

Well, here goes...

1 Why did the "trusted captain" leave them?

A: He wasn't trustworthy, or he just saw that the woman was basically nuts (when she jumped into the water to swim after the missing boat and her belongings.

2 So why did wifey allowed her hubby to be killed, disemboweled and did the kids eat him alive? I mean look, hubby paid bunches and followed her because he cares too right? That was so unnecessary imo.

A: Her obsession with finding her son was constanly being interrupted by her husband's more rational and realistic grasp and interjection of the probability/reality that their son was dead; She was getting him out of the way so she could find her son. In her mind he was the bad guy for trying to stop her.

3. Why didn't the kids kill her too?

A: She was hot and they wanted to keep on feeling her boobs.

by - flamingdiva I got a copy from a friend and watched this.

OK I m so CONFUSED. I need some explanation please! I didn't get it.

I think the film is inspired by Lord of the Flies and Apocalypse Now. That much I understand.



1 Why did the "trusted captain" leave them?

2 So why did wifey allowed her hubby to be killed, disemboweled and did the kids eat him alive?

I mean look, hubby paid bunches and followed her because he cares too right? That was so unnecessary imo.

3 Why didn't the kids kill her too?




Please enlighten me~!!





1. The Captain was killed by the children I believe. The corpse in the trees. Presumably they sank the boat.
2. I believe she blamed him for lossing their child.
3. She is now their mother, or just another drifting soul.

I did not like the film at all. I gave Vinyan 3/10 for the scenery.
It was not the worst that I have seen.

In response to question 3, I think it's as simple as the kids recognizing her insanity. They'd clearly lost it and so had she. In the end, no matter how far gone the kids were, they were still kids and they need a mum, and no matter how much she claimed she needed Joshua, she really just needed a child to hold and love, even if it wasn't Joshua, thus why she thought every kid she saw was her son. The kids needed a mum, the mum needed a kid (or fifty :P) - so they all lived happily ever after.

steph