CAN ANYBODY EXPLAIN THE END

It's kinda obscure, but here goes...

SPOILERS:

He left the woman because she was changing into one of the mutants. She returns below so she doesn't spread the virus.

The sap from the tree was supposedly an energy source being tapped by the Eden Log Corporation to provide power for the city. However, what Eden Log was actually doing was taking immigrants underground under the pretext of working in the refinery (this is why you had that "You will be offered full citizenship as a reward for your help" recording at the start of the movie) and using them to feed the tree by hanging them in those cages among the roots. Things started to go wrong when the tree begins to attack the genuine refinery workers and anyone venturing down into the lower levels begins to become mutated. Some of the scientists working on the project begin to rebel and the whole refinery descends into chaos.

At the end, the hero sacrifices himself by fusing with the tree and let it feed off him, which allows it to begin growing out of control and engulf the city.

That's kinda it.

There was also obviously intended to be a sort of allegorical element to the film, given the Biblical quote at the start of the film, but, quite honestly, I couldn't really be bothered to work out what it was.

My reading of the film is entirely different. After studying technophobia it occurred to me that Eden Log is in opposition to technophobia. As we all live in an age when we're so infused with technology, nearly everyone has a mobile phone or access to the internet, when we lose that technology (misplacing your phone, your computer breaks down) people tend to panic. Eden Log works in exploiting that fact, as Tolbiac goes through the levels of the city he comes across the mutants, they are not mutants really but a regressed primitive version of humanity, like a neanderthal and as he comes into contact with the tree he too starts to regress to the primitive state. That's where the fear really is for the audience, in the concept of having to go back to having no technology.

The ending when he fuses with the tree I think is indicative of humanity not being able to escape the regression, if we do not want to be fully controlled by the technology we create (a trait of technophobia, the loss of control) we have to become more primal and return to a more primitive state.

Thats my theory anyway

I switched the subtitles of the audio commentary on, it really helps to understand, what the director wanted to show by doing things this and that way. Very interesting film, but I had to watch it twice, it's really not easy to get. But I give 7/10.

I'm a signature, call me George.

I think that the movie has a low rating simply because most of the people who have rated it didn't just understand the movie.

I thought it was 7 or 8.

SPOILER ALERT.

He is sent to carry on a search and destroy kind of mission inside the plantation that had actually gone bad. they had to eliminate all scientists and remaining staff since they found out about "the secret" during this mission he actually becomes infected but dosn't transform because he is special. thnx to the infection that causes black outs and during an episode he kills his second in command and is left clothesless in the last level. Without memory and on his way back up he eliminates the architect during one of this episodes (its shown as a flashback in the end) and actually causes indirectly for the botanist to leave his hideout ( this is when we find out that he can make the plant grow with his blood). he continues to go up and unkowingly during another episode ends the mission, does it by eliminating the last person, the woman, by raping and thus infecting her. Finnaly on the -1 level while finding out who he is he informs the people above the outcome of the mission (acomplished mostly during blackout). After this he is congratulated and informed that he has a new mission, To carry out the beggining of a new instalation ( the last one was no good any more) and he (we actually) is breifed on how they are using inmigrants as manure to feed the tree under the false pretext of earning the entrance to the city. But after his adventures he no longer agrees with the idea of making an eden for some by using the sacrifice of others. So instead of Doing whatever he was supposed to do he connects to the new tree making it grow out of control and eliminating the city, thus sending everyone back to a primitive state and making an "eden" for all kinds.

Cheers to all ;)

Mutantedelorto.

My take was that the boxes in which the immigrants where held in symbolized apples/forbidden fruit. The Eden Log people are trying to create paradise but to do it they take the short cut of sacrifice (forbidden fruit). This makes them unworthy of paradise and so at the end Tolbiac essentially takes on the role of god to cast the unworthy out of Eden. Resetting man to 0. The tree itself was already fighting back, so perhaps Tolbiac was simply a catalyst and was made "special" by the tree itself to carry out this function.

This could suggest a loop in which man aspires to create paradise but always chooses to take the short cut. This makes man unworthy each time and each time is reset to 0.
In this way, perhaps "Genesis" is the allegory.

Oh, god!

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