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Why is everyone missing the obvious truth about this film?

posted 14 years ago by namragus
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In the movie, did you notice that the strange events stopped occurring once Peepsie was killed? Is it possible it was Peepsie who was responsible for those evil acts? Perhaps he/she was using mind control on different people in the village, while also mocking efforts to determine the true culprit by "inceptionizing" that young girl's mind. When the preacher's daughter fainted, it was because Peepsie was torturing her mind and the daughter had had enough. Once she realized that Peepsie had to be stopped, the daughter used every ounce of will that she had and killed that demon bird. The preacher was not upset because Peepsie was dead. He was upset because he realized that it was Peepsie who had been making his children misbehave. When the preacher was giving his daughter her first communion, he hesitated because he felt so guilty for blaming his children for what Peepsie made them do - he wondered whether he should publicly apologize, in front of the community.

Some might argue that Peepsie was just striking out because he/she was stuck in the cage, but I do not think that was the message.

Also, the preacher's children were not being creepy when they went to tend to the victims. To the contrary, they felt guilty for what Peepsie HAD MADE THEM DO.

Think about it folks, Peepsie is never accounted for when any of these bad things happened. Of course, even if he was account for, that doesn't matter because Peepsie is obviously using mind control.

Let me know your thoughts.

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[–] namragus 14 years ago

I would argue that the disappearance was not actually a strange event. We have no clear indication that anything bad happened to any of those people. Yes the midwife was upset, but no one said that the psychological damage of Peepsie's acts would be gone overnight.

[–] UnaDahmer666 14 years ago

so you're claiming nothing bad happened to the midwife?

she learned who committed the crimes and on her way there had a change of heart, and never returned with or without the police?

and the retard? he just wandered off all on his own, blind?

when proven wrong, it's best just to concede dude... instead of making wild stretches to try and STILL prove your point

a lot of people do that, apparantly they are too full of pride to admit that they were wrong or overlooked something... and they'll keep arguing a dead theory way too long

[–] namragus 14 years ago

No matter your theory of what happened, there is a lot of ambiguity about what happened to the midwife, her son and the doctor's family. While certainly all of it is related to the strange events that happened, whether the same culprit was responsible is unclear.

The doctor very easily could have taken Karli without the midwife's permission. He need not have wandered off of his own. The midwife needed to get the bike from the school teacher. She told him what she had to.

Thanks for the advice on how best to handle being proven wrong. I am quite impressed with your self-confidence.

[–] UnaDahmer666 14 years ago

"whether the same culprit was responsible is unclear"

peepsie is the one who tied the wire that tripped the doctor, and that's why he was killed with the scissors?

then the midwife, knowing peepsie was responsible, travelled north in hopes of escaping hoardes of malicious birds who planned to start WWII?

of course that would be a wild stretch in order to defend an obviously wrong theory again, but who cares?

seeing as we're making wild assumptions and that "the culprit could be anyone" as you claim, and not the children as THE MOVIE ACTUALLY SUGGESTS

[–] namragus 14 years ago

You appear to lack reading comprehension. Please re-read the first post and try again. Please also learn to make arguments without constructing straw men. Finally, please learn how to recognize a joke.

[–] hereticba 12 years ago

OMFG I ROFLed for 10 minutes! LOVE this theory!

[–] kunjabihari-87-77020 13 years ago

There is a famous story in India about two men who were having an argument. One of them was extolling the virtues of scissors, as the best instrument to use in a project that lay before them, while the other claimed that a knife would be much more apropos. Finally, the argument reached a crescendo, resulting in a physical tussle, the end result being that one man threw the other into a nearby lake. As the man who was thrown in the lake didn't know how to swim, he floundered about a bit but then gradually went under. Nevertheless, as he was going down he thrust his arm above the water, and with two of the fingers of his hand, made the sign of scissors cutting, adamantly maintaining till the very end, his argument in favour of the same.

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[–] franzkabuki 12 years ago

Calling mentally retarded people retards is indeed not abusive. It´d probably qualify as abuse if they´d be called that to their face, but we´re talking in third person about a fictional character here.

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

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[–] franzkabuki 12 years ago

"I give up".

Sounds good. You should do it more often.

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

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[–] drjeff21 11 years ago

"A word not used in my country". Yes, you have "newspeak", where you are reported to the authorities if you use "illegal" language. In the US we have free speech, which means people have the right to make idiotic statements like the words used in the referenced post; but we also have the right to argue with the person making those statements without the threat of "being reported".

[–] rosarypliers 11 years ago

Imdb actually automatically censors "illegal language". This includes many words perceived to be racial slurs and some words related to defecation and procreation. You probably can get away with "butt" and "bitch", after all, you might be talking about rifle butts and female dogs. But a lot of words are replaced with a *bleep* by the board. Very constructive, indeed, especially if you are discussing Malcolm X who used "illegal language" in his speeches.

You may cross-examine.

[–] jenn-cha 14 years ago

Peepsie took the doctor and the ugly midwife and the children all with him.

[–] Chromwagner 14 years ago

you can't be serious

[–] James_Dorman 14 years ago

My God it all makes sense!

And Haneke said this film had to do with the origins of Nazism. BIRDS! They did it.

Think that's stupid?

Think again: http://www.usmbooks.com/nazi_eagle_swastika.html

[–] g02o0555 14 years ago

I totally agree!! Peepsie you Demon

[–] titusbeertsen 14 years ago

OT: this film only has a 7.9 rating right now.....
IMDB is going to hell.

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 14 years ago

Blatantly obvious, however, the eagle was prominent in Rome and is a symbol of the US as well.

How shall the stars on the cheeks of this mandrill find a number?

[–] blacknyellowsquid 14 years ago

Yep, totally Peepsie. It all makes sense now.

I thought Peepsie was a really cute name for a bird, though. If I ever get a bird, I'll name it Peepsie. Except it'll make me think of this creepy movie lol.

[–] Billygoat 14 years ago

Best explanation yet.

As a point of interest, Martin later went on to become Martin Bormann.

As for the mid wife with the foul smelling breath (a result of her ulcer) - she left the village, heading to the big city lights of Vienna, Austria. She became a street prostitute and later gave birth to one Michael Haneke.

[–] Acceler8 13 years ago

Peepsie also sent the tapes in CACHE.

[–] amoga 14 years ago

Indeed. However, you forgot to mention that the bird's name, Peepsie, is really just an obvious reference to the real culprit: Pepsi.

As it is stated in the movie, the Barron only employed half the village's people; the other half all worked for the (now) well-known American corporation. At the time, Pepsi was a rather noname brand, and they hadn't yet perfected the formula. So they experimented. A lot. As it turns out, the most interesting experiments were made in a tiny and remote German village.

There are countless references to the not-so-soft-back-then-drink: the Poles who drink it during the Thanksgiving party, the Old Farmer who splashes it on his face when his elder son returns from prison and asks if he can be forgiven, again there's an innuendo about it when the Old Farmer is discovered dead (his son was going to get some of the drink with the carafe), the Midwife and the Doctor immediately after their fornication, the Baroness can't resist pouring one glass while her husband is out with the steward, and so on. In fact, the whole pond where the Baron's son is thrown with his whistle is just residue from the industrial process of fabrication.

So, people, here you have it -- the whole story behind the script.

[–] japonaliya 13 years ago

WOW!! THAT'S IT!!!!!

Now it all makes sense...the movie is an allegory of the world domination battle that continues to this day....
Pepsi (fascism) and Coke (the opiate of the masses-communism)

I hate Europe, they are so *beep* up...

[–] karaladh 10 years ago

Thank you for the laughs, that was nice.

The room's a wreck, but her napkin is folded.

[–] japonaliya 13 years ago

A great premise, though wrong..read my post WHO really did it...

[–] woodchopper88 13 years ago

If you look really closely at some of the 9/11 WTC pictures you can just about make out Peepsie in the cockpit of one of the planes. Whether he was flying the jumbo jet or just using mind control to coerce the pilot is unclear.

[–] GreenwheelFan2002 13 years ago

I watched this dumb movie the other night and was SO angry that I'd wasted my time at the end of it, I wanted to smash the DVD...

but now, well, these Peepsie theories have made those horrible stretched out hours worth it, lmfao I am going to blame everything on Peepsie now, and no one is gonna get any of it but me...and I will still laugh my damn ass off.

you people are the definition of win.