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Can someone please...


... explain this movie to me? I got things here and there, but I made the mistake of watching it over two days. Not a smart move, given the complexity of this film.

So I will need help in deciphering what happened... Thanks, in advance, for your reply.

And also, what is the significance of the boar?

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I saw this last week and I thought I had understood most of it, but reading your post makes me question myself.

The girl's mother was a survivor, as a baby, of the cover-up by the Nazi cult - the hotel manager had raped and impregnated the Grandmother, and they murdered her.

I think she was the vengeful ghost who was hunting down those men and taking control of them in their sleep. That's why he was being tied down at sleep time, so he could not hurt himself while possessed by her. The creepy song at breakfast was a clue about this.

I'm not sure about the boar. There was some extra sauce in this movie that made it hard to consume.

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The Arrow Blu-ray has a 22-minute blow-by-blow explanation of the plot and themes. It says the boar signifies (1) the beastial nature of the villains, and (2) forbidden flesh for the Jews, who traditionally don't eat pork. And it points out resemblance to other sources, from Silent Hill (woman finding dream visions in a sleepy town) to The Shining (man haunted by visions in a off-season hotel).

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