Ok so after everything that went on because of their lies, the people that were killed etc they just let him waltz in and ressurect his wife??? After what happened with his daughter...REALLY??? I just did not get it!
Surely Timothy Spalls character would not let this go ahead but there he is helping him drag her out of the cocoon.....Weird
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They lied about the death of the little girl. As long as the death ocurred inside one year (IIRC), there is no risk of it happening again, so they are safe.
shareby DarthSimpson (Sun Apr 24 2011 14:16:47)
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Maybe they were really desperate for a vet in their town, so they agreed to what he asked of them...
You have to really think about it : how would anyone want to be a vet in a place like this if he hadn't to ?
shareHe didn't deserve his wife to be resurrected, thats for sure.
I put it down to them understanding how much someone longs for their loved ones and eventually forgave him for the horror he and his wife inflicted.
Allowing that the townsfolk forgave the vet, I have a bigger problem with the resurrected wife's pregnancy. Wtf? We know she was expecting when she died, but how did he figger out the timing? The last shot, i.e. the knowing look (into the camera) on his face would suggest that he knew it would work. Could someone enlighten me?
shareI didn't understand that either. The daughter didn't seem to age whilst dead (that sentence makes no sense!), so why did the wife age and her pregnancy progress? And it looked like the husband was going to cut the baby out of her...why had he sudddenly turned into a maniac.
I agree with the original poster about the villagers being surprisingly forgiving! The couples' lies caused three people to die. Now I realise that anyone who dies can be resurrected, but only for three days, not for good...so the deaths would still have been keenly felt.
Now put that gun down Heidi! You’re not solving anything by massacring people!
i dont know if he was suddenly crazy but surely losing your daughter twice plus ur wife plus the whole bringing folk back thing might play with your sanity a wee bit?
shareFair enough, but the acting and writing didn't really support that.
Now put that gun down Heidi! You’re not solving anything by massacring people!
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I think we have to go on the belief that there is an afterlife. The neice of the woman in the Pharmacy mentioned Alice has a nice voice - meaning she would have heard her (on the other side). The actual bodies of those deceased stop aging, but they are reborn as they would have continued living. So using that logic, both the mom and her expecting child would age in the afterlife, so dad (I forget their names, sorry) would know that he should get her back in about eight and a half months.
And someone mentioned he was a maniac. It's safe to assume everyone in that town's a maniac! But he was simply going to perform a C-section on his dead wife to bring his child to the real world. He's done it on animals, so it's not TERRIBLY insane. (There was some foreshadowing near the beginning of the movie)
However, this raises other questions about the state of the newborn. Did it die with the mother? Will it have to go back? Will it look exactly like Alice? (I was hoping to see that.) There's obviously going to be some plot holes or unexplained things in a film like this. Just like time-travel. But overall I think it was an alright movie, a lot better than I expected. Similar to Pet Sematary - that'll always be my favourite.
Wow...I actually thought this movie was pretty good up until the ending. It just seemed really idiotic that he would have the help to resurrect his dead wife after the daughter killed off a chunk of the town. Also, his wife's baby survived and he's going to deliver it? Seriously. The story was pretty good until they took that route. I know it's fiction and this stuff doesn't happen but it was a pretty bad plot hole and considering it wrecked the last 2 minutes of the film, I thought it was awful.
shareMum said Alice is really looking forward to having a sister. I think, he's going to deliver the baby which will also die in 3 days along with Mum thus creating a family on the other side.
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I have to agree with the fact that the movie was good fun until the end.
So, they bring the mom back, how come she's already like 8 months preggers?
But consider how the mom "dies": the messed up Alice yanks her down an invisible hole. And neither body is found afterward. Now, I think if they went back to Alice's first grave, Alice's body would still be in there minus a finger. But the mum was just gone. No body. So maybe she isn't properly dead and that will mean the baby didn't die.
shareWell simply enough, a full-term pregnancy is usually just nine months, that wouldn't be hard for him to figure out and it's under a year. There are other issues though.
Despite foreshadowing for some elements (some posters say that the fact that the daughter's hair could grow means that you age when your dead in this film), I'm fairly certain that in the timespan that Louise learns she's pregnant and when she dies, she never once tells Patrick. It's never said on camera, at least, so how did he know? Sure he could've found the positive test when he got back, but we never see that, so it didn't happen.
Who knows, maybe it took nine months for him to finally walk back into the store, see her brush (though you'd imagine that she would've had a brush in the house, not to mention loads other DNA traces) or for another person to have died, but we don't know that.
I'm sad that a decent film has such a weird flaw.
"I'm fairly certain that in the timespan that Louise learns she's pregnant and when she dies, she never once tells Patrick. It's never said on camera, at least, so how did he know?"
She did tell him she was pregnant. Remember his reaction? "But that's impossible!" he said, and she replied (I'm paraphrasing) "I know it is, but I am".
Not that the whole pregnancy in the afterworld thing makes any more sense for it, but this is one plot hole that did not exist.
It is absolutely said ON camera from the wife to the husband BEFORE
she dies, she tells him that somehow Alice knew about it,
and the dad says that is is impossible that she is pregnant, but
the mom again states that yes, she is in fact pregnant
It is also a FACT that it is established that while someone is dead
is that town, they continue to grow, and in her case carry the
baby to term.
Plus we see the husband/dad perform a C-section on a cow in the
beginning of the movie.
Not to mention the fact the while the mom is washing off after being
"born" she talks about how the daughter is wanting a little sister.
so basically the only flaw is that YOU failed to actually pay attention
to this decent film.
I just watched the movie and she did tell him she was pregnant when she found him at the house with the bulls and cows.
shareI don't see it that way. Sure they lied originally, but i sure as hell didn't hear the guy warn them that if their girl was more than a year dead, she'd start murdering animals and people in the town. Pretty sure if they had an appropriate heads up, they wouldn't have lied. So who is really to blame, people who lied while not really knowing the consequences, or the guy who didn't properly make them aware of all the dangers. And even if they did lie after that, THEN i could see the vet guy not deserving to get his wife back.
shareThis is one of those cases where you have to fill in the blanks a little. Several months went by between the loss of his wife and her return. Perhaps in that time he joined the town cult and convinced them of his sincerity, that he wasn't going to mess around this time.
sharesince they're Pagan, the one-year limit goes perfectly along with the ritual. it's not an arbitrary date, it takes one year for the earth to go around the sun. the wheel of the year.
the 3-day thing? seems arbitrary. 3 and 4 are imporant numbers in most religions and superstitions.
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what about the fetus dying inside the mother, though? sure, in the afterlife Alice's hair grows as she ages ... the baby grows until it's viable ... David waited patiently with her hair from the hairbrush for at least 6 months. so what? the baby died simply by lack of oxygen, no blood flow to the placenta when the mom dies. (i have to assume she suffocates in the dirt.)
did he just want to hold his new child for a bit, before returning it? (heck yeah he was going to perform a non-consensual cesarean!) in any case, i do like the twist ending, and his macabre look.
why would the people allow his wife a return from the dead? well, it doesn't seem like a happening place. David's stuck there forever. i didn't see any children (alive) or many young couples. perhaps they have a slightly different ritual for bringing back dead fetuses, their being pure and innocent and all. gotta populate the town somehow!
der, i forgot to say that the wheel of the year is a complete cycle of death and rebirth. more than one year wouldn't make sense.
shareIt is stated about the 3 day limit, it is how long a fresh corpse is viable,
since whoever gets reborn, that are doing so because of the dead body, the
dead warlock guy explains all of this.
The wife did not suffocate in the ground, it is clearly stated,
again by the warlock guy, that he would not find them in the dirt,
which means that the wife was pulled ALIVE into the afterlife of that
town, which is not connected to heaven of the whole planet, only
people in the town go to this place, that is why they could not leave
the town. and since the wife was pulled ALIVE into another dimension,
the unborn baby would have been alive and growing normally inside her,
and should be able to be removed and not have to return with the wife.
Here is what I gathered about the way the supernatural phenomenon in this town works:
In the afterlife, people still continue to "live" a kind of life -- the daughter's hair had grown long during the year she was dead (they had to cut her hair, this was one of the scenes after her return); the wife's pregnancy progressed to full term following her own death.
Bad things happen only if a dead person is resurrected after a year dead. Nothing bad happens and they don't become killers if they are resurrected before a year.
The villagers were lied to about the daughter, but in the case of the wife they know when she died, and therefore are more willing to let her come back.
Even though the villagers should stay angry at the young vet for lying about the daughter, they probably forgive him and bring back the wife because:
1) They're stuck with him and need his vet services anyway.
2) Because he can do a C-section and bring his new baby into the world, they probably want that new child in order to keep the community going, and what better than another person actually raised into their lifestyle rather than newcomers who could cause trouble (like the young vet did at first)?
The only problem is, is the baby "undead" too and will it have to return to the dead after three days?