The ending...
At the final scene it looks like the monster woke Adam up, but that doesn't make sense since Adam who is watching that video for the first time apparently didn't know about it.
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At the final scene it looks like the monster woke Adam up, but that doesn't make sense since Adam who is watching that video for the first time apparently didn't know about it.
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I think at the end, we are to assume that he has seen the video before, this is just the first time that he is showing the audience the footage. When he is introducing the video that has been left, his eyes look all red as if he hasn't slept. We are meant to come to our own conclusion of what happened after they were woken up.
shareWhen he is introducing the video that has been left, his eyes look all red as if he hasn't slept.
We are meant to come to our own conclusion of what happened after they were woken up.
But like someone else said, the ending only makes sense if the monster was trying to warn him by secretly recording him, and then sending him the video later. And if he woke up, then we missed the most interesting part of the movie/documentary.
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why would he miss anything if he woke up?
Why? Cause that's what he did to them...happy?
shareThanks for proving my point that it makes no sense
shareNo, it makes no sense...but thats why, it was a rubbish ending.
shareit makes no sense...but thats why, it was a rubbish ending.
I assume Adam was shaken up by the fact the monster woke him up and threatened not only himself but his wife, plus the footage that Dekker is now caged up like some animal. I would say that the reality of that thing being in your home and you literally feeling it's anger in the flesh, has more of an impact than it literally sneaking in and leaving the camera at your bedside and the shock that would ensue. Your home after-all, is supposed to be one's safe little sanctuary.
shareYour home after-all, is supposed to be one's safe little sanctuary.
Which is why there was no need for Adam to wake up; the monster was already inside his home.
just being there then leaving would IMO have been the better choice instead of trying to visualize or make things up as to what happened after the weird sound that woke them up.
Yeah I know. I was really just trying to rationalize that ending in my initial post.
shareYou're either incredibly stubborn or incredibly naive if you don't see why the monster chose to wake them up...
shareYou're confused, the question is why would he would film them and then wake them.
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To show he can obviously find and get to him that easily. Really?
shareThat explains the video only, try to read the other posts in this thread which understand what you still don't.
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No, it's as simple he was trying to scare him. By having the monster show itself to them it's thusly proving it's not some sort of weird hoax possibly perpetrated by Decker.
I didn't think that actually needed to be explained since it was a major plot point 85% of the movie, haha. Common sense man, seeing is believing.
Did you see the episode? You keep avoiding the question that confuses you: Why video, if wake? Why wake, if video includes monster in the mirror?
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Ugh, do I really have to explain this again. It goes back to him not being sure if this whole thing was a hoax. If he just saw something I the mirror don't you think he and others would question it like they did the ENTIRE movie?
By the monster actually showing itself, and presumably, threatening him and his wife, in the flesh, so to speak... it gets a much more effective reaction and ensures he definitely knows it's real.
Happy?
Again you miss the point that everyone else seems to understand: Why take a video if he's going to show himself?
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You keep changing the point for some reason... are you really asking why the monster would shoot himself?
shareDid you see the episode? You keep avoiding the questions that confuses you:
1) Why video, if wake?
2) Why wake, if video includes monster in the mirror?
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Could it be that the monster at the end was Dekker? I don't know why, but that's the first thing that crossed my mind while watching. Maybe the monsters turned him into one of their own and then sent him to Adam's house. Or maybe he escaped, or whatever...
shareYeah, it seemed like they put that there just for the sake of the jump scare but it really makes the ending less effective. If he were just showing us a creepy video of Dekker and of someone coming into his home and filming him, it would all track. And that is obviously what they're telegraphing the whole time, the classic unsettling "I was inside your house!" scene. Then they throw in the jump scare to shake our expectation. But it just muddles the sequence of events.
The shout at the end seems to imply a bad end for the couple, but he's showing us the video that someone is supposed to have sent to him. Obviously this video isn't a surprise if he wakes up at the end of it and has an encounter with the deliverer that we don't get to witness (naturally, why would we care to see the most interesting and pivotal scene in the film?). So why does he show us the video as if it were self-explanatory? It clearly isn't. It leaves a bunch of questions unanswered. It doesn't really add up with the rest of the story. If he were truly afraid for his life or his wife's, he wouldn't show that video at all. But if he were interested in the truth, why not show us the whole thing? Or at least tell us what happened?
Why does the clip cut out at that exact moment? That was very obviously a choice made by Adam Green the director, not Adam Green the character within the mockumentary. It's a cheap scare that just disturbs the suspension of disbelief.
Couldn't there have been two recordings at the end? The way I saw it, Adam receives a tape revealing Dekker locked up in a cage, warning people not to believe his theories and not to dig down the Marrow any further for their own safety. Adam chooses to ignore this warning and reveals the tape to the world as part of his documentary (red-eyed and scared *beep* What follows is basically a search and destroy visit by one of the monsters, taping the murder as warning and making good on its promise to punish anyone investigating. The recording could have been made using one of the misplaced cameras in the woods. Only way the ending would make sense in my view.
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