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What happened in the end!?!?


OMG talk about unfulfilled!

It's like the entire movie was one big setup for how the dog would die! That's pretty much all I was waiting on because you knew it was coming. Then some random man shows up and kills the dog and we get no explanation as to where he came from and even worse there isn't even a HINT about the barrier!

So angry I sat through that, enjoyed the hell out of it, and got jack squat in the end.

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I agree, I must admit the ending was bit of let down. Can't help thinking she missed a trick, the appearance of the strange man at the end I feel signalled a break in the wall.....

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How could they leave us hanging like that!?!?! I mean come on the movie completely went from being about the wall and the mystery of that to her relationship with he animals and specifically the dog.

Had a wolf or bear killed the dog I suppose I'd have less questions but they couldn't even give us that courtesy. Instead we have this strange man so now we are left with the big question of what the wall was plus where this man came from.

Do they address either? Nope. Just focus on dem feelz cause the dog died.

Frustration level to the max!

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I think it means she chooses to live in isolation in the end. She says she doesn't care about where the wall is anymore. For all we know, the wall has seized to exist in the end and other people started living in her area. Or there has been another person she never knew about living in the isolated place the whole time and she kills him right away. She says she doesn't care about what he was doing there or why he killed her dog. Either way, she could have lived with another human but kills him, doesn't regret afterwards, so apparently she is fine with being isolated from society.

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I wished someone had started a topic called "what was the point" and it was on the main page when i looked the film up. If i had seen the barrier isn't explained i wouldn't have watched the movie in the first place i like a film with a view but if im going to sit reading a movie i really need more than that to say the least.
I kind of hoped she wouldn't narrate the whole movie then she did and it got really boring towards the end. people saying its amazing and beautiful and such are missing the point their are many visually amazing movies but this movie started with a point which it never bothered explaining almost like the writer wasn't clever enough to do so. Next time i see a foreign film that interests me i think ill read more comments first.

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To me, the film wasn't about the wall, but rather about her reaction to it and about how a person interacts with nature generally. I thought it was interesting that she was so passive about escaping her situation and made silly excuses about why she wouldn't explore the rest of the area or make any sort of attempt to escape but at the same time she clung so stubbornly to life as she undertook all sorts of unpleasant tasks and hard work to prolong her own existence. The movie isn't about a woman who deals with an invisible wall, it's about a woman's life within the invisible wall.



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While you were the first person in this thread to say anything i agreed with -- your first sentence -- I have to write to dispute your subsequent claims. Passive? As I see it, she tried everything she possibly could: She tried driving a car through it, for heaven's sake. She walked as far as she could in every direction where a wall didn't block her and it wasn't imho a "silly excuse" that she was wary of walking more than a few days away in any one direction. Her survival also depended on not getting too far from where she had home and food ... So, yes, she comes to make a life for herself within this impervious wall, but it's not out of passivity. Au contraire, it's out of a very very pro-active will to live that makes her see that for completely unfathomable reasons (which we don't need to know since the whole point, in part, is to mirror the fact that she herself has no way of knowing the why and how of this wall, only that it mysteriously and suddenly IS - and she must adapt to it ... and she does, even through grief and new loss and still her will to live survives).

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She walked as far as she could in every direction where a wall didn't block her
No, she didn't. She made excuses about why she didn't want to walk in some directions. You seem to realize this yourself based on the rest of your own sentence.
Her survival also depended on not getting too far from where she had home and food

She wouldn't have been able to survive away from her home? She slept outside for months at a time, months when she could easily have been exploring the area a few days away from the places she was familiar with.
Au contraire, it's out of a very very pro-active will to live that makes her see that for completely unfathomable reasons
Not sure I understand what you're saying here, what is "that?"

Anyway, I'm interested in other interpretations but I can't imagine refusing to explore the rest of the area for any reason besides passivity based on what I know about the film.


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Where do you get that she slept outside for months at a time? If you mean the meadow where she spent the summer, there was a smaller cabin up there, too. She may have slept outside if it was nice out, but certainly not when it rained.

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Also, after her first real crying jag she pulls herself together and decides to survive.
She even mentions "digging underneath the wall" in her narration- but then other things begin to happen and she falls into the routine of living and caring for her small menagerie of animals.

If it were me I'd be testing the barriers of that wall every day.


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When you think about it, what would have been a logical ending, that didn't feel cheesy? A happy ending? Suddenly the wall breaks and all kinds of people come rushing in? It was all a fantasy or a dream? Or, yeah, we had a bad war, it trapped you in a bubble, but it's all over now? I think it ended in the only way it could.

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This was the most realistic 'last person in the world' movie I've ever seen. As I'm very much an introvert, sometimes I think it would be heaven to be in her shoes, with all that peace and quiet and gorgeous scenery.

The ending, to me, sure I wanted it to come to some conclusion, but because it was a realistic movie (beyond the main premise that is) then it chose to be ended with a realistic premise, which is life doesn't generally get wrapped up in a nice pretty bow like you want it to.

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I just assumed he was a man who had been trapped in the wall like she was trapped. Although he had gone crazy......Or he was just a crazy man who lived in the mountains to begin with. I don't think there was any complicated explanation or reason for him being there.

I thought it was possibly meant to indicate that some people will go crazy or violent in those types of circumstances...Not knowing what that wall was and being alone and vulnerable...I think that would drive many people crazy....

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yea, the movie was interesting and all, but had I known that the plot would remain unresolved I would not have watched the film. Very unsatisfying ending. Why would she shoot the only human companion she came across when she was so lonely, he could just have been hunting for food, she should have taken him prisoner and questioned him at least.

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I think it was a sort of Adam and Eve story. a woman, and later we learn a man, are trapped in an area rich with resources. everything they need is there, but they have to work for it. the woman chooses a quiet, productive path, though she is always questioning why she must be alone. we don't see the man's path, but we know it left him deranged. he had all the same resources she had, but he chose pure violence and greed. she can't allow him to continue with his destruction and consumption. I think this is far more plausible than what happened with Adam and Eve.

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You assume much. Did he have a house, gun, companion, steady supply of food. For all we know he had been sleeping In a cave. No fire, clothes other than what he had on his back and an axe. Eating whatever he could find and kill with an axe. If I were In that position, hadn't seen another human being for years and hadn't had a decent steak dinner I'd probably kill the calf as well, on sight. Remember, she wasn't there to let him know they were hers.

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We don't even know he had an axe all that time--he may have simply picked hers up from next to the woodpile.

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