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Why did the native americans (spoiler)


I've read some posts here about what the movie "really is about" but one thing I don't understand is

Why did the native americans come to the cabin to shoot the leads?

In the original ending that the leads found out about listening to it on a cd they got killed by them, when they changed the ending the "mean druggies" got killed instead cause they were there instead of them

They were clearly on a mission to kill tho, so why?

The lead paid the head honcho for 5 days of living there, even if they didn't clean the house in time that would hardly be punishable by death and I take it they were the one who set the fires of the other houses in the area as well?

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The tweakers and the natives were two possible death scenarios/endings that Mike and Chris managed to sidestep. So what we see happen instead is both of those possible endings play out in a way that cancelled them out completely. Unfortunately for them, this new ending proved unsatisfactory for the entity that oversees all this so Mike and Chris are left to an ambiguous fate.

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Yeah but why would the natives even be a possibility, what would be their motives to killing them?

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Mike and Chris were trespassing on Native land.

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And why would that be punishable by death? Every single American who isn't native is technically trespassing on Native land

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Because it's a movie that's how it's written.

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It is clearly a plot device, as others have said, and basically just one of the possible "endings" to their story. From a realistic standpoint, I'm going to guess that the head guy (Joseph or something? I forget) was bitter about his life and resented non-natives in some kind of way. He was working some nowhere job as a security guard at an indian casino (stereotype much? haha), so it makes sense he gets off somewhat on power and authority. He was obviously sociopathic to a fair degree and pretty much only cared about getting some extra money.

We don't know the history of the area either, but it seems as though their properties and land was used fairly frequently by drug addicts, homeless and other such people stuck on the bottom rung of society. Perhaps some of the older experiences with these types turned violent or something and the native american dudes just didn't give anyone else the benefit of the doubt. Plus, many of these people can simply "disappear" and have no one really notice. Basically a stereotype of "reservation justice", at least in the mind of this jerk, haha.

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The Indians were rather hostile to them in the first place. Maybe they wanted to destroy the place to get rid of what was happening there. Maybe they wanted to appease the entity at a certain time. Maybe they don't like tweaks on their land. Charlie did warn them a number of times that they should leave the cabin asap.

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Because he had agreed to five days, and his fifth night was up that night. It was a way to make sure the cabin was, indeed, clear. The dude already expressed his contempt for squatters with drug addictions.

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Sure, but most people don't resort to murder to prove a point

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No it didn't make sense, if that's what you're looking for. To be fair, people are killed all the time for things that should not be "punishable by death". What confused me was why they killed two people who were obviously not the ones they had the beef with? Had the killers not already met the "squatter?" I'm pretty sure they had.

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They killed those two guys because Charles and company hated junkie squatters. No, it does not make sense to kill someone over squatting but clearly Charles wasn't right in the head either. He's an angry man who's had it with people taking over his property.

And no, Charles never met Chris. When Michael and Charles first meet, Michael asks if Chris forgot to pay his rent, to which Charles replies "Who the *beep* is Chris?"



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Because, as indicated with the dialogue at the start of the film, the Indians have a zero tolerance policy in junky squatters ... with bodies buried in the hills, etc.

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