Ending? - La casa muda (2011) Discussion

[–] xMort 13 years ago

Laura kills everyone, because she's gone mad after abortion of her child (they probably forced her). She probably blames them and started to imagine her daughter to be able to live with it. It was probably Nestor's child based on conversation between him and her but I'm not sure. It looks like she slept even with her dad based on some photos. Or there's possibility that I also miss something.

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[–] profweetos 13 years ago

I'm not sure about abortion since on one photo she is reallllllly pregnant (like 7-8 months). I would say that theyr killed or gave away the baby.
There are no photos with Laura/father/nestor, only photos with Nestor/Laura. I guess the father was implied in the baby's case not the conception.

Cool movie anyway.

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[–] fg400a 13 years ago

Not exactly, there is one photo where you can see her half naked between his father and Nestor.

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[–] larenga-1 12 years ago

true

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[–] Felicia-Hardy 13 years ago

Both of them had sex with her. She probably got pregnant and wanted to keep the baby. It's not said whether she had an abortion or they killed the baby. She went mad because of this and kill everyone.

Also you can see in the pictures that there's another girl with the men. So they probably like to abuse young girls.

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[–] maroon_marilyn 13 years ago

Like they´ve said,both her dad and Nestor had sex with her.By the pictures in the movie,you can also see other half naked girls,so I think they were both ephebophiliacs (sp?)
Laura got pregnant and her daughter was killed.There´s a scene in which she tells Nestor: Vos mataste a mi bebé(You killed my baby).
There´s also a scene after the credits in which you first see Laura holding hands with her daughter (The child she saw before Nestor arrived with the car and in the scene were she takes pictures in the dark),talking about visiting grandma.Something gets in the shot(A tree I think) and when they focus on Laura and the child again,the girl is gone and you can see Laura is holding hands with the doll.
I think after the abuse and the murder of her daughter Laura went insane and killed Nestor and her father.Her mind,already fragile,created the "memory" of someone coming to the house and killing them as a defence mechanism,because her psyche couldnt deal with the fact she had killed them.It´s dissociative amnesia and projection(AKA she blocks the memory of killing them and blames the murders on someone else)

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[–] Sufy1000 13 years ago

The ending ruined the movie for me!

Anyone else?

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[–] sc_taylor 13 years ago

I just thought it was utter rubbish. Immensely tedious and not at all frightening. It makes absolutely no sense that she would wander about a dark house when her father has been killed instead of just going outside and calling the police. Then when she finally does get out and she meets the house owner, she lets him take her back inside!

As for what the final bit means, or who committed the various murders, God knows!

A complete waste of time.

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[–] berrorg 13 years ago

You really didn't get it, right? She would wander in the dark house because she couldn't find the keys to get out (she spends like 6 minutes of the movie looking for them); then the guy takes her forcefully into the house again , what would she do? Stay outside? Besides, SHE was the killer, so anything she did was towards that end.

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[–] Villings 13 years ago

You are correct. I've even read some reviews (from pseudo-professional reviewers) who were wondering why was Laura just walking around the house..

Didn't they see her checking his father's pockets for a whole two minutes? Damn.

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[–] ElectricKoolaidAcid 13 years ago

This movie made absolutely no sense to me, but after reading some posts here I'm maybe starting to get it. She killed her dad AND Nester. Apparently they both abused her and then Nester killed her baby awhiles back.... also all the photos on the wall with other young girls; don't know if they were "baby hookers" or just girls they found, but some of them looked happy/consenting in them. And her walking with the ghost/doll at the end... that made it even more bizarre.

A totally creepy movie where we're supposed to believe there's violent ghosts in the house just to come to find out it was the main protagonist that was criminally insane afterall is said and done. Kind of a clever twist!

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[–] Gregoire-2 13 years ago

The ending ruined the whole CONCEPT of the film as we are supposedly following a character in real time, when in fact, what we're seeing is some construct of the truth.

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[–] castlerock20002000 12 years ago

You are right Greg, even the tagline says: Real fear in real time. So I dont understand how could she kill her dad when we were watching her the whole time, unless we are insane too.

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[–] MadRotaryOne_DDCgod 10 years ago

what??? Do you not get the concept?? "unless we are insane too". yes
we are insane, in the fact that the entire movie that we see, is what
SHE is seeing. So she kills her father and Nester, she is crazy, and
since the movie is basically a recording of her deluded thoughts,
we do not see this. She had block all of this out.

Why would you feel cheated because somehow you were thought that
this is happening in "real-time"? The movie isn't even in one
continuous take like it seems to be, there are hidden cuts.
I even read one poster say that this ruined the movie for
him because he kept looking for the hidden cuts. again,
why would watching a movie be such a chore, it is supposed
to be fun entertainment. Just watch a movie and relax...

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[–] larenga-1 12 years ago

The problem is that with the twist all the rest of the movie makes no sense at all.

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[–] bgonzales-1 12 years ago

well, the beginning has no connection with the end. Even so, I got scared a little

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[–] super16g 12 years ago

I get that she was looking for keys at fist, but the time she spent on her second trip back in the house with Nestor she was still crawling around looking at everything, so that doesn't fly with me. It didn't look like they locked the door behind them when they came back in.

How did she kill either man when we watched her the whole time?

Why is she imagining her baby as a toddler if she had an abortion?

Who made the noises upstairs?

Why would Nestor as them to clean a house and tell them not to go upstairs if they'd all been there before and if he had so much incrmininating evidence around?

I don't get it. I like the idea and the setup, but forcing this twist on us messes things up.

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[–] madman2600-290-622373 12 years ago

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but it was also mentioned at the end that they found 6 bodies. As far as I could tell, she only killed Nestor and her father. Are we to infer that she possibly killed the other girls in the pictures?

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[–] BlackDog123 12 years ago

I missed where it said that there were 6 bodies! But the more I think about the ending, the more I think that the ENTIRE situation - the noises, the pictures, the pregnancy, etc - were in Laura's head. There is no way she would forget about partying and a pregnancy that happened a couple of years ago. Nestor seemed like he was playing along with her wild accusations.

I bet the whole scenario was supposed to be a part of her fantasy. Which means, as other posters have pointed out, that the entire premise of the movies is inherently flawed - we're following one character through her delusion, which is impossible because the camera SHOULD catch her murdering her father.

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[–] BlackDog123 12 years ago

No. It's made pretty clear that she killed her father. Plus the doors were locked, they make a point of the truck leaving and coming back, (as you point out about the blood) there was no blood on Nestor etc. I don't see that as a viable plot point, particularly in light of her delusion or whatever it was supposed to be.

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[–] Netzki 12 years ago

No, not six bodies. The ending mentions that the mutilated bodies were found six DAYS later together with some quite alarming polaroid pictures. Most of what we saw in the movie are supposed to take place only in her head I guess (we see things as she percieve them but that's obviously not the reality), but it seems like the pictures were real. They did abuse her and she went mad because of the memories that overpowered her in the house.

I think she starts to remember things when her father's asleep and she starts looking through a photo album where some pictures are missing (Of her? Maybe pictures of her pregnant? Pictures of her baby girl?). That's when the first strange noices appear, anyway. Not the most realistic portrait of a suddenly revealing psychosis, I dare say. :)

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[–] vencyber 12 years ago

At November 8, 1944 (six days after the events), in Godoy, Uruguay, were found 2 mutilated bodies,without eyes and tongues, and some pictures. Nobody really knows what happened there, and the house is not going to talk to us (that's why the title is "La casa muda" -The mute house-).

This film is just the director's explanation about what happened there.

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[–] bloodymaryhorror 7 years ago

without eyes and tongues

Now THAT might have been a story. Missing eyes and tongues suggest revenge on snitches. They SAW something (missing eyes) and SAID something (missing tongues) along with the title The Mute House.

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[–] tkip19 12 years ago

She killed the men. It was difficult to make sense of what was a memory and her madness though. But did anyone seriously believe how easily she moved both men's bodies around? Sheesh...

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