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Huh?

posted 15 years ago by thirdeye55
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Although I really liked this movie (the mood and eeriness was very affective) I was a little confused by the way in which it was presented... and really would like someone to explain to me wtf was going on?

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It seemed to me like the guy killed that other family and then also killed his wife -- the car he saw on the beach was later found in the water in a different position and than corpses found in a camp that had been abandoned for a long time nearby. Wtf. And uhhh, if he didnt kill his wife, then how the hell did the spear end up killing her??? and if he DID kill them all, then wtf is the purpose of the movie??? - as it would then have nothing really to do with them "disrespecting nature" and getting what is coming to them for doing so...?? I just cant figure out if its meant to be supernatural or if im just missing something all together...

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Im so confused... help me...

[–] KeKKi 15 years ago

+1 to that question as I just finished watching the move and wondered the same things..good movie though! Liked the scenes with the dark thing in the water..but did the seacow or what it was make it's own way to him from the beach..? Spooky! :P

[–] roger5454 15 years ago

Nature (indirectly) killed all of them.

The spear ended up in the wife during the night scene. Remember when his wife was driving then the bird flew into the windshield so she got out and started running? Well, the guy was standing around the campfire yelling and shooting up in the trees at that time, then he was yelling at some animal that was antagonizing him from the woods and shot the spear off. He didn't know it at the time but his wife was approaching him and he hit her.

[–] junk_Email76 15 years ago

I'm wondering tho what the spear represented at the very last scene?

[–] draftyrafters 15 years ago

The spear is shown jutting out beneath a newly formed plant tendril. It's a way of saying that even the most seemingly innocent part of nature can be deadly.

[–] k0lp 15 years ago

i think the beauty of the plant represented that nature is life, but the spear(humans) are totaly out of sync with it. even though they sometimes think different

[–] street-smart 15 years ago

We get a pretty obvious clue that this guy really killed his wife and also the other family that was camping a little bit down the shore.
In the movie there a two scenes in which he points the spear gun at his wife (very beginning) and aims with the rifle at the capm of the other family.
This could be seen as some forshadowing of what he was going to do.

[–] TheBeardedWonder 15 years ago

Ugh, really everyone? The wife was through the densely populated woods, so assuming the spear somehow missed every tree and bush, HE SHOT IT UP IN THE AIR TOWARDS A BIRD. It wasn't aimed anywhere near the side, where she was.

Everything adds up to it really being people messing with them... thought it was pretty obvious. Of course, that ruins the ENTIRE point of the movie, but it sucked anyway, so who cares...

"Andrew, we can't possibly be dead. We have cable." - Nothing

[–] Mike1951 13 years ago

When the rifle was empty, he picked up the speargun and fired it HORIZONTALLY, not up.

Looking at someone through a rifle scope merely displays unsafe, irresponsibility with firearms. I don't think it meant any more than that.

And I saw nothing to give the idea that he killed the other family. They were affected in the same manner as he and his wife.

[–] rhapha1 15 years ago

He wanted to kill his wife before the left the house. Apparently animals don't like you trashing their place or couples arguing. "Keep that nonsense at home dirty humans!" (in animal language)

[–] creegah-3 13 years ago

Not aiming at the other family...using the rifle scope to see what was gong on there.

Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles - Alex DeLarge

[–] NatalieDLG1 13 years ago

The first things that popped into my head was that since they were in Australia it was aboriginal people who shot the arrows and were messing with them or even moving the dead manitee. That's the idea I'm sticking with because it helps the movie make a little more sense.