The very last scene was alittle corny. Kind of out of one of those youtube trick videos. They didn't need that scene.
O'Keefe's reaction in the bedroom when the girl was levitating was too reserved.
I mean come on... a girl is floating off of her bed and is some how generating electricity.
His 'natural' explanations just didn't carry wait.
Schizophrenia?! Come on. The girl clearly has supernatural powers.
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I saw it last friday, for me the last scene obviously was a cheap parody to those youtube videos, it was made on purpose, surely they didn´t need it, for me it was there to showcase the importance of being open to supernatural phenomenons versus the idea that everything is in the mind, a good film indeed. Moreover the scene was amazing because it shows that the movie itself did not take itself too seriously trying to convince audiences of anything.
"The girl clearly has supernatural powers."
Not if she was herself possessed.
actually the final scene clearly debunked the doctor's theory (that this was not a haunting). as a final scene, it basically showed that the doctor was in over his head and his hypotheses throughout the film were wrong. ergo, the final scene revealed that the doctor was a red herring.
if there wasn't that scene, then the doctor would've been right all the way!
as for his (suspected) diagnosis of schizophrenia, he is not saying that the daughter simply has the usual mental illness -- he's saying that the schizo, ALONG WITH her latent psychism (what a word) would account for the poltergeist phenomena. his theory is that if she is given treatment for schizophrenia, the phenomena will stop. (this conveniently makes it unnecessary to explain HOW EXACTLY her schizophrenia and her 'psychism' interact. or perhaps he intends to study her in an even more controlled environment precisely to figure that out.)
the doctor has a clear aversion to the term "supernatural", preferring to define it as natural but "as yet unexplained by science". if you ask me, that's just potaytoes potahtoes.
actually the final scene clearly debunked the doctor's theory (that this was not a haunting). as a final scene, it basically showed that the doctor was in over his head and his hypotheses throughout the film were wrong. ergo, the final scene revealed that the doctor was a red herring.
if there wasn't that scene, then the doctor would've been right all the way!