Is the ending what I think it is...? [Spoilers]
so the whole movie was just a drug fueled dying hallucination?
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It wasn't really a difficult plot to decipher.
Remember that bit where the girl is in the room listening to the tape from Dr. whatshisname about the hallucinations had during near-death-experiences? That's your clue to what's actually happening. Not to mention the dreams he's having where Ray tells him that he killed him. In that room, everyone OD'd from the stuff they were shooting, except of course for the girl who didn't take any. The entire film is Justin's dying hallucination. Hence the scene at the end where the dialogue becomes a mix of what they're actually saying in the room with his body.
Not that I encourage thinking too much about a movie that was essentially a big joke/excuse to do completely over the top gore and rape scenes, but he does open his eyes at the end when they're carting his body through the hospital or wherever. He kind of blinks back awake right before the screen goes to black. So...hooray, I guess. If you wanted a happy ending.
Ya saw it last night, this STORYLINE been done many time, Jacobs Ladder would be the best in my book.
The problem I have with this movie is the OFF parts, if everything is suppose to be from the perspective of Justin, then how would he know or US the audience know the events that happened when he was NOT present for those instances.
The movie wasn't horrible, I just hate sitting through a whole movie to realize the last 1 hour was irrelevant.
JP
I don't think that the whole movie was just from Justins perspective. Like another poster wrote, maybe they share their experience, since this was some experimental drug. So I guess that you see the whole movie from the perspective of all the dying guys. Still doesn't make sense that we also see it from Megs perspective, but it is as good as an answer as it can get.
Also the whole stuff wasn't irrelevant. I like to think that, if they would have survived the monster attacks in their dreams, then they would have also survived the overdose.
Let me hear you make decisions, without your television
Not present for them? They didn't exist!
Nothing in the film actually happened. All that happened was they broke into that room and took that drug.
It was a totally fictional world, he simply makes things happen in his mind.
He obviously was drifting in and out so he made the two guys he saw in the room become Cops in his mind. They were not Cops though...so reality has no hold on his hallucination. As such he can imagine things happening to people in his delusional world whether he is there or not.
The only weird thing was the pointless very last shot. Which it seems even the makers don't know what it means
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I got that from the beginning. I feel it wasn't a cheap shot to have it all be some drug fueled dream. You get the impression throughout. This has been many times before to the point where is a cinematic cliche. I think this took it to another level and gave it originality.
Great movie!
It's all fun and games 'till somebody gets hurt!