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The ending is an insult


The entire movie is pretty good and has a nice touch of realism, except for the ending:

Mid-surgery of the organ-donor-kid the dad suddenly takes the moral high-ground, meaning loosing his
-wife/marriage
-daughter
-probably job


And let's not forget the effort he put into even getting this far.
And yes daddy knew exactly what he was getting into, in fact expected far worse.

I am fine with Hollywood endings, happy endings, Disney endings, dreamy endings, but this one is just the stupidest ending I have seen, bar none.

PS: The Kid wouldn't recover that quick.
PSS: You can live with one lung, i.e. donate a lung! I.e. it wasn't a decision of killing the kid but rather one of putting the kid through major surgery, which they already did! (open chest surgery)

Yeah the ending pretty much ruined the entire movie, and I am generally very forgiving.
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He did the right thing and it wasn't a Hollywood ending, isn't that refreshing? The doctor made a compelling case that he only uses dead people's organs, the ones that had not filled out a donors card and he had no reason to not believe him.

As far as his wife ditching him, screw her. Would she feel better later on that her daughter's life was due to some orphan's murder?

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I agree with Jakealope. Their daughter would have lived but an innocent child would have died. Paul made the right decision if not the most logical one. I don't think anyone can say for sure what their decision would be unless it happened to them. Yes, your daughter would live but every time you saw her you would see Little Shrimp, the poor kid that you basically executed. Not to mention that lung transplants don't always work so if they failed, Chloe would still be dying and the Mexican kid would have died for nothing. It's a lose-lose situation.

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I can understand why his wife left but she is still a bitch. After all the torment he went through by himself in Mexico as well as the shared loss of their child, she could have had some more grace about it.

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If anything it's that part (her leaving) that I find unrealistic, since just before her trip to Mexico she seemed to have come to terms with the death of her daughter, asking him to come home.

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Just because the ending isn't of a typical hollywood variety doesn't make it any better. The father spends the entire length of the film pursuing organs in Mexico, and then 1 minute before the movie ends, with the nearly dying kid already split open on the table, his daughter in a nearby hospital days away from dying, he suddenly realises that organ trafficking isn't moral? I find it very hard to believe that he really believed that they were only using dead people, and that there was an actual chance some kid in the city with the right blood type and all that would die by chance. It's too big a change for him to have made over cabronzito.

Basically what I'm saying is that the quality of writing dropped drastically in the those last minutes. The idea for the ending is fine, having him change his mind is fine, it just wasn't done very well.

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He did the right thing and it wasn't a Hollywood ending, isn't that refreshing? The doctor made a compelling case that he only uses dead people's organs, the ones that had not filled out a donors card and he had no reason to not believe him.


i agree. he did the right thing. the hardest decision he ever made, no doubt.

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But they cut that Mexican kid up so much would he even survive being put back together?

What are they doing? Why do they come here?
Some kind of instinct, memory, what they used to do.

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he did survive.

basically they were selling one life to save another. one family had the means to take organs from a child with no money. can you imagine a society where your organs could be stolen from you if someone else comes along with more money?

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Wasn't that the plot to the newer version of Repo Man?

What are they doing? Why do they come here?
Some kind of instinct, memory, what they used to do.

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I agree with Jakealope.

Love isn't what you say or how you feel, it's what you do. (The Last Kiss)

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The ending wasnt shocking at all either, it would have been much more impactful if we actually saw the family of three all together -daughter alive, wife happy and not caring about anything but themselves, and a father tormented by his choice.


i think that would have been a hollywood ending too...



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I agree with you about a few things that were heavy-handed and cliche, and I agree the little boy wouldn't have been back playing a few days later. A broken leg takes time to get past. With Chloe's funeral going on at the same time, how long after could it have been (unless she made it a few weeks maybe). It's also not plausible Stanton would have been taken to this covert operating room and been allowed in to argue with the surgeon. There were enough people there to haul his a$$ out which would've been done no doubt. Moving past that, though, I disagree that he knew before that what the deal was. He said he thought he was jumping to the head of the UNOs list, although that seems ludicrous since it was explained to him the donors are people about to die who don't have donor cards are next of kin immediately available to sign consent in time to harvest viable organs. Then he finds out he is an accessory to murder, and of a young child at that. The child could live--it was a broken leg, not a fatal injury. Taking organs out of an otherwise healthy child with a broken leg is murder, plain and simple. It's true there are probably some people with money who wouldn't have the morals to turn down a chance to save the life of a loved one, even if the only way was to steal the organs out of a healthy, living person. That doesn't mean it's not a reprehensible thing to do, though. I for one hope I would not compromise my morality to that degree in the same situation. I am in a better position to say this than other people in this thread because I am, in fact, the mom of a child who had a liver transplant to save his life. It's very painful to me that the only way for my boy to live was to benefit from the death of another little child and a terrible tragedy of other people. It's also painful that another child may have died who would have had a chance at life had my son not been transplanted. Having said that, my situation is completely different. My son's liver came from a little girl who was dead, being kept alive by a life-support system. Had we not taken the liver, she would still be dead. As for the others on the same waiting list, that's very sad, but it's not as though we took unfair advantage. My son's life is as precious as the other children on that list, and he had as much right for a chance to live as the other kids did. It would be a whole other ballgame though we were told our son could have a liver but it would come at the expense of another child dying who would otherwise live as a healthy child, even if the child would live in poverty and deprivation. It's not my call how much value another person's life is. It would've been devastating had I lost my son, and I can't put in words how grateful I am he got the chance and he's alive. But we knew his life was in danger, and even with a transplant, there is a mortality rate that isn't insignificant. We knew he might not make it. We were prepared to lose him if it came to that. As bad as we wanted him to live, there is no way I could choose his life over the life of a child who would otherwise live. There are certain things a human being with a conscience doesn't do...lines we can't cross. I would not want my child's life if it made me an accessory to murder.

One major plot hole that jumped out at me, though, was how would they know which child to run down? For any organ transplant, the donor and recipient must be a suitable match. The guy on the motorcycle and the people paying him would have no way to know which child would be the right blood and tissue type to provide a good organ for Chloe. That was just over-the-top ridiculous. What are they going to do if they get the kid to the OR and find out he wasn't a good match? Tell motorcycle guy to go back out and get another? LOL

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There is no "major plot hole". What on Earth are you talking about? The people involved in the organ transplant would obviously have been at the clinic and likely knew the boy's medical history. Good grief, it isn't that hard.

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The ending is indeed an insult. This is one of the most inane pieces of trash I have seen in my lifetime.

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