So in the end, Ponce finally discovers the woman hiding as he comes down the mountain. She screams, and the audience is left to guess what her true role was, and what Ponce does with her (or she with him).
Was she a witch, or an innocent mute civilian caught up in the whole psychological decay into savagery?
I think she was a witch. When the soldiers find her hidden behind the wall, the witch notices the bird leg or twig (the charms) and she screams. Indian tells the soldiers that the hanging charms are to keep evil away.
Also, if she wasn't a witch, why would the original (dead) squad have blamed her for the illness and deaths of their friends, and why are they all dead in the first place? Why was she still waiting outside the base?
But I guess it's left open to whatever you want to think. I really enjoyed this film.
Who walled her up if they were all dead?
I have to say I didn't like it much - nice idea - but it has been done before, and better.
It was mainly about the backs of men's heads as they moved really slowly from one unlit location to the next without saying anything.
Good film, top notch acting, beautiful cinematography, awesome use of real locations, tension inducing score, never intrusive and a firm direction, but, and its a big but, nothing really happens, we are left for something fantastic to happen, and we are lead to believe that a big pay off is around the corner, but we are left hanging, this is the major flaw in an otherwise excelent flick, the script.
The girl crouching at the end , did not make a satisfiying ending, if she had been levitating a feet above ground or doing something else of a supernatural nature...imho it would have been an interesting twist pointing that the crazyness of the soldiers was not just paranoia.
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It was a good film. The cinematography was good, but it failed in repeating itself during the whole movie ("the soldiers' heads" as mentioned by the post above yours), and the excessive use of out-of-focus shots.
I think the plot is good, since it doesn't explain anything. It let the viewers decide if it was something supernatural, or just general paranoia.
The woman crouching at the end didn't make a good ending, but neither if she would have been levitating.
Come on, admit it, you can never go wrong with a pinch of some good old levitation.
Totally agree.The build-up was brilliantly done but then the film goes nowhere.Do you know what was written on the wall?I suppose a warning not to release her but just curious.
shareUnfortunately I can't remember, it's been a good while since I watched it.
It's one of those psychological thrillers where the real ghost or witchcraft is
in the minds of those who are deluded, as opposed to something actually real.
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I thought the ending was a real cop-out. I really wanted to like this film as it had a good premise but I thought it was boring :(
shareIt's the old legend of the banshee (look it up) - a woman who begins to wail if someone is about to die, eg, as she did it when the soldier went into the cell to rape her - she screamed, he was found dead.
The fact that she did it at the end signifies that Ponce was next to die.
Presumably she was walled up because the previous people mistakenly thought she caused deaths, as this lot did, rather than recognise she was simply the messenger.
Good film, though I agree about the over-used, close-focus technique.
No it was the doc who killed the Sarge as he was a sadistic rapist as the doc said before he got his head bached in.
Pretty boring , good acting and fantastic location but it just didnt go anywhere.
I think if the witch had been levitating at the end that would have been a good end but it was purely just a bunch of army grunts going nuts and paranoid after torturing and killing so many people themselves.
Could have been great but cant give it more than a 4/10.
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