LAST SCENE THREW ME OFF

It really should've just ended after Ryan Kwanten and Amy Smart, because that scene with Nicky was just so random, it didn't even feel like the same movie!

Oh well now that does make sense lol

Wow you are the man! tecnomoving! I got it now, you make me remember what that hot girl said before.

Punky :Death is a part of life.

Hotty: A part of your life, maybe,but not a part of mine.

Punky: There will be one day.

THRILLER IS MY FOOD!

Hmmm, interesting... You are the FIRST person that I have seen actually to DEFEND the last 2 minutes or so. BUT... you do make a very good point.

I think that I had kind of a general sense of what you are saying when I saw the last 2 minutes; in other words, the point being that these ones were not 'Letting go', particularly the last chick as you said. HOWEVER... and I think that this is why most people here, or at least a lot of people here think that the ending is 'Stupid'... is that I feel VERY strongly that the WAY they did the ending was not done very well. So, I think that it came across as very lame and a LOT of people just think that the movie should have ended just before the last scene, I being passionately one of them.

BUT... after reading your explanation and seeing that more clearly, I just wish that they had done it a HELL of a lot better, that's all...

I personally would have LOVED to see her at the end wandering around the plane all by herself, because she is not letting go of her compulsions, and THEN instead of some stupid hand coming out of the trash, what I think would have been neat (because if you remember, you DO hear the sounds of the doll) what I think would have been cool is if she reached down to look IN THE BOX where the doll was and was making those sounds (NOT the stupid trash!) and then show the DOLL leaping at her! Now THAT, to me, would have been a good ending!  Because that would have accomplished the same thing AND would have tied in perfectly I feel with the very purpose of the doll itself (as explained by the Goth chick)



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This is a good explanation. I dont think the OP was crazy for not getting it though, I didn't get it either. I found the movie overall to be quite short and it didnt fully explain itself.

Tecnogaming, you are RIGHT on the money. If I was the screenwriter of this film, I would pitch it as such:


An angel of death uses a doomed Trans-Pacific flight to present
passengers with 1 of 2 choices: 1) acceptance of their unfinished
business (eternal peace), OR 2) denial of their fate
(eternal torment, doomed to be punished by him).

At first I was really pissed off, but after re-evaluating my reaction, I came to that conclusion. We can argue about if the plot devices were crappy, and how their execution was constructed- at the end of the day, "7500" is a morality tale wrapped in J-Horror-inspired movie packaging-and there were some pretty blatant hints thrown in (probably in the script re-write stage, which may be why the North American release date was delayed):

●The classic "Twilight Zone" episode which is basically
the film-within-a-film device, foreshadowing what will happen:
the Lance Morell character is the equivalent of the gremlin
William Shatner saw in the plane window;

●The F-16 showing up-usually when this happens, more often than
not, the F-16 will shoot down the passenger plane;

●The Goth Girl's and Married Couple's (moreso Ryan Kwanten & Amy
Smart) dialogue referencing how important time is in relation to
how one uses it in their life;

●The one guy stealing the dead guy's watch- basically, this guy was
symbolically trying to "steal time" in an effort to counter his
forthcoming fate, but to no avail;

●The Shinagami doll - this was one of the many tools Lance Morell
had at his disposal to make the doomed passengers face the 1 of 2
choices they had, much like the F-16;

●The re-occurring turbulence, cabin pressure issues, and lack of
oxygen - again, tools Lance was using to force the passengers to
make a choice;

●The little girl with the stuffed bunny rabbit - she represented
innocence and her stuffed bunny represented life-therefore, she
easily ended up in eternal paradise-which is why we didn't see her
corpse in the revelation scene of the film, but her bunny
(an inanimate object) was still in her seat-can't recall if her
mother's corpse was still there or not

AND, the most blatant of all:

●The creepy, stream-of-consciousness voiceovers-especially when the
high-maintenance honeymoon Woman is walking around and we hear a
bunch of creepy processed voices-listen to the last voice especially;
●The ethereal otherworldly white light shining through the airplane
windows as she walks through the plane;
●The news report- pretty much spells out HALF of what transpired-it's
the "icing" on the supernatural cake.

Apologies for the long response, but I could write a thesis (LMAO) on this film, the classic storytelling/literary/filmic techniques use to execute the plot, and could even compare other stories, metaphors, and other things used with stories/films like this.

tecnogaming, but we understood all that already, we understood it as they showed us they were all dead and we heard the goth girl's speech on letting go again, with flashbacks on the crucial moments when they did. So we understood. The ending with the vapid girl being pulled in was sort of pointless, I mean, what - she finally accepted it too so now she is taken? Ok, but it was too predictable at that point to display in this "boo" way.

In my understanding it happened exactly the other way around.

Everyone who DID let go became a victim of the creepy guy, no?

The flight attendant that was engaged since 3 years let go the wish of finally getting married - and got snatched.

The other flight attendant told the pilot that she figured he will never leave his wife for her, therefor she let go - and shortly later got snatched also.

The girl who didn't know if she is pregnant or not found out she is not pregnant, had nothing to hold on anymore - and that moment the creepy guy came out of the toilet and grabbed her.

The very same goes for the pilot. He looks at his wedding ring at the cockpit, says that was it with his affair, turns around - and bites the dust.

Only the goth girl accepted death right from the start. She didn't have something to let go anymore.

And I have an extra theory WHY she doesn't have anything to let go anymore, but I'm not sure, it's only a guess.
When she meets "death" in person and is embracing that person I think death welcomed her in shape of someone she had lost before, probably her lover.
That personified death we see only a silhouette of somehow looks like a young punk (hair etc..). I think that was the reason she welcomed death coming to get her.
She had already lost the most important person in her life before and didn't cling to life anymore. She was already waiting to go there where her lover went.
She spotted that person that represented death and wrapped her arms around him like she was finally able to reunite with someone she greatly missed.

I'm impressed. I would rather watch this movie again than watch what you describe. And I didn't think I would say that about anything. Let horrible dogs lie.

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