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On the fence... Spoilers may be here...

posted 11 years ago by neztra
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I thought the acting was wonderful in this film, but I am really confused about the overall plot.

Was this meant to be a sort of disjointed story? It seemed like the time line flitted around a lot and though I suspected fairly early in the plot twist, I felt that it really didn't add much to the story line. I don't want to spoil it, but if you have seen it, you know what I mean.

Perhaps this is closely tied to myths specific to the UK? Maybe someone can explain. What were they afraid of at the beginning of the film? I thought they were afraid of the fae, but then it seemed that was unrelated to anything else in the film. Why did the child die? Was he so scared that his heart stopped? What did the children see out on the hill before he dies? Why was the hunting blind (or whatever that cement structure is) so important?

I guess a lot of this doesn't need to be explained if you look at the film as simply pulling at your emotions because of incredible acting, but I am left the next day still wondering.

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[–] MadRotaryOne_DDCgod 10 years ago

Just watched this movie, and as I can't say that I hated it,
but there certainly was a bunch of crazy flaws with this.
There are spoilers here, so don't read on if you don't want any.
So basically the girl is under some serious emotional stress
due to a death from a year ago. Lets just say she is an
unreliable narrator, seeing as how we see her talking to
her mother the entire run of the movie, then find out she
was dead the entire time and she was really talking to her
dad, which we only see as the neighbors friend. So this is
supposed to be a supernatural movie, but there isn't any in it,
unless you count a couple of things that are seen at a distance
and then never talked about again.

so basically we have a boy who dies suddenly next door, which we
are led to believe was done by a sinister presence, but really
he just had a heart attack, The main girl was babysitting him at the
time and it happened while she was asleep, and th\e dad comes home
o find the boy dead. I think that it is implied that the boy
was reincarnated into a dear, we see an image of the boy where
a deer was standing a sec ago, as the dad was shooting the deer.
ya, I am messing this up I think, but really this is how disjointed
the movie is.
also at the end there are images of some people back in the day,
a girl is all dressed up in what looks like it could be the 1600's,
so maybe the main girl was reincarnated version of this girl from
back in the day? Yep this movie is messed up real bad.

watch it if you have some time to kill and be ready for some
head scratching at the end of it...

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