The Ending (*big spoilers*)
I didn't get the ending to this film at all - it took a moment for it to register at first, but I'm fairly sure I know what happened, but I don't understand why it happened, or what it is supposed to mean.
It appears that Shay took Tamar's young daughter to Shay & Tamar's bed and had sex with her, and Tamar arrived home, saw through the window what was happening, went to the house of one of her lovers, and her lovers (or the men in the community) then beat up Shay. Tamar then found him in the morning and held his head to her, and since he moved his legs he was evidently beaten, but not dead.
So then: why did he do it? Was he a paedophile all along, just waiting for an opportunity to prey on Tamar's daughter? I'm not sure that is the case, because he did it when he knew tamar would come home... So, was it some kind of revenge act to hurt Tamar because she was sleeping with other men? That doesn't make much sense, because why hurt her daughters in such a despicable way? It just doesn't make any sense.
Also, why is she holding his head to her heart so tenderly at the end? Like I said, he definitely appears to be alive, and she is embraciing him - if he hurt a child of mine, I would kill the guy, preferably in a really painful way, too.
There was a lot of very beautiful cinematography in this film, and it had an interesting premise (with regards to female sexual promiscuity vs sexual conservatism/"ordinariness"), but I just didn't understand the ending at all.
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