I expected some kind of explanation...

Movie was pure crap.

The movie would have been decent if they at least alluded to a cause or theory of a cause. Like with the movie Vanishing on 7th Street.

Seriously. The whole time me & my husband were watching the movie...I kept saying "I really hope this isn't going be a movie where they show no explanation for the vanishing". And I'll be damned if thats not what happened.



"But when the walls came down, the sh*t got real.." - Jenny Lewis

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I think the point of not giving any sort of explanation was so that we would feel the anxiety that the characters were going through.

And there were some clues, not sure what they add up to but there were a couple. Like it the temperature dropping all of a sudden and there being snow on the ground. The lady said something like "the temperature has dropped like 50 degrees in the last couple of hours.

Also, whatever it is, it removes all trace that the person had been there, with the exception of the writing on the inside of the cabinet and the rope I can't remember anything at all being left behind. No clothes, blood, nothing. Gone.

There are probably other very subtle clues, but again I have no idea what they add up to yet.

By the way, I am right behind you.

Yeah, this is one of my all time worst movies. And they gave absolutely no clues or evidence of what was going on. An awful movie.

Here's what I don't get. Someone wrote the script, someone else read the script, someone else decided to make a movie about it. Someone else actually cast the movie. Someone else actually decided to invest in this movie. Someone spend at least several million dollars on this TOTAL PIECE OF CRAP. Didn't someone down the line have the guts to tell the actual decision maker that you need to make entertaining movies and not waste other people's time.

"Say, do I look heavyish to you? I feel heavyish. Put a note on my desk in the morning: 'Think Thin'

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I am disappointed with the no explanation as well. Some movies are good when left to the imagination, or the movie gives enough clues to where you don't need such a definitive ending. But this is one of those movies that needed that. In any case, my interpretation was this: I do think the movie had a metaphor about how we don't know the meaning of life. The ending, she had that flashback of the guy saying something like "We can do whatever we want and it doesn't matter because in the end we all disappear." I think that was a pretty heavy line to end the movie on. So that was something I took from it.

Also, I think it did have something to do with a different dimension/time warp thing. There could also be some more symbolism in that if you start to take people and things for granted, you can and will lose them and can't fix it. That might not be the meaning for this movie, but I found that interesting as well. But as far the disappearing, I think they were being sucked into another dimension or time. The weather changing, and no animals or insects, things being not left behind but taken with them. It just all leads to some sort of portal literally opening up and swallowing them. I didn't understand the order in which it took them or why. I didn't think the looking at them or blinking or not blinking made sense, because there were many times people either looked away or didn't and it had nothing to do with who disappeared or not.

Also, it bothered me that we had really no explanation as to why the girl who was the last to stay was the last to stay. She pronounced her passion of why she wanted to, but so did the guy who wanted to get married and have a child. The guy who went absolutely crazy and was killing people and killed himself obviously wanted to live very badly or he wouldn't have gone *beep* crazy like that. So some sort of clue to why she was the last one would have been nice. The ending was interesting, I agree with some of the other posters, saying that it wasn't the others who disappeared but actually she who disappeared, and when she realized it that's when that guys quote came into her head and she basically just surrendered to the fact that they were all doomed once they got there.

But I do think, however that the cops and whoever else that were there would eventually start disappearing as well. I don't think government or cops knew anything about it, or they wouldn't have showed up at all and gone into the house. Obviously that area was a portal type thing, and even though the cops didn't know that, they were definitely screwed too once they showed up. So when they went into the house and she lifted her head and they were all gone, I think she was gone first. But they were also going to be gone. It was just inevitable. Just like in life, that's everyone's fate. It's easy to take some symbolism away from this film even if that wasn't it's purpose. My biggest issue with it, apart from not having a solid explanation to what was happening was why she was the last one to disappear. It was so completely random, and had nothing to do with blinking or looking away. I kind of enjoyed the film because the acting wasn't bad the premise was interesting but only because I was excited to find out the reasoning behind all of it which I never did lol. So, damn. I wouldn't recommend anyone to watch it for that sole purpose. I am getting sick of movies with no real ending unless it's better that way which sometimes it is. But movies with an awesome premise, and a solid beginning, middle, climax and ending are impressive. I wonder with these types of films if writers literally get lazy and in the middle of writing say "Oh *beep* I actually don't know where to take this... so...wanna just end it?" Kinda lame.