Didn't Mona Rudao get bombed on the bridge along with the others from his tribe?
Im confused... was that a dream or what?... Because if it was, the movie didn't do a good job at showing me that, imo!
First Mona Rudao gets bombed, and then suddenly he is picking up Japanese flyers in the Jungle, and alive until the end!
And if it was a dream... Who was dreaming that and why? It seemed pointless to show that scene imo
I 100% agree it was shot in an odd way and gave you the sense that it was a dream or something, but I assume they simply fell into the water and survived. Good thing the cannon blew up the bridge actually cause if they had advanced any closer I'm sure they would have been wiped out with gunfire.
I think it was just a dramatization to give them that 1 big last battle and for the 2 men in charge to come face to face with each other. But I totally get what you are saying. The scene after was very confusing. I thought it was a flashback or something.
They easily could have ended it with the bridge exploding then went ahead and told us the historical fate of the survivors. The sister waking up, drunk dance, and suicide felt a bit long and pretty unnecessary. I did like the part where the kid finds the remains and it shows them going over the rainbow. They could have kept that.
In the 2hr and a half version I saw, the bridge explodes, they fall, Temu Walis (who Mouna almost killed when he was a boy) is on his knees bleeding in the water. Mouna is standing in front of him about to swing his sword. Mouna turns into his younger self, then into another warrior (or its his even younger self they cut out of this movie?) and blood is spilled. A scene with the pregnant woman, then Mouna standing with other warriors in the middle of the jungle. Then on to the cherry blossoms with the General. And credits.
What I thought it meant was that Mouna died and thru his warrior killing Temu. He succeeded in killing Temu like he wanted to in the beginning. And if there's more like u say, then it's his spirit that lives on in the jungle.
Now I was going to say maybe this version has the intended meaning since its cut shorter. But now I'm thinking they just half assed it, when it came to cutting it. (And maybe Mouna survived)
Because I don't even get how Mouna who comes off as arrogant, kills Temu who comes off as an innocent in the end, like that's a resolution. Yea that's no Hollywood ending but then what was the point of that rivalry.