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Please help me understand the ending.


The last few scenes between Duchovny and the boy! he said he wished to be with his dad and the goat man said he should and walked away in silence! Also the girl in the prep school mentioned meeting her on campus if he wished and spending the bucks. Meaning?

Is the moral of the movie, everybody lets you down in the end, as someone has reviewed it here?

Please help me understand.

With no power comes no responsibility...


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the girl was accused of having sex for money throughout the whole movie and that last scene with her and Ellis confirmed it for him so he decided to stay away from her permanently. (she said Ellis could spend some of his allowance on her)

I myself am still trying to figure out the abrupt ending with Goatman and Ellis.

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I think Goatman knew the importance of Ellis knowing his father, knowing a different life because Ellis shad already started integrating himself into that WASPY prep school life.

He probably also recognized that Ellis needed to be away from his mother. Neither Goatman or his mother let him be a kid, his father on the other hand disciplined him and encouraged him to act like a child.

If the home movie at the end is Ellis as ababy than Goatman must have known Frank, known he was a good guy and knew Ellis' mother kept Frank from being in Ellis' life.

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Near the beginning of the movie it was stated that both of Ellis's parents had been friends with Goatman.

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