Please explain the ending. Spoilers!!!! Spoilers!!!!
I liked this movie very much. I had trouble understanding Caroline Tillette's accent. Why did she kill Victor? It didn't make sense to me.
shareFrom what I understand, Bethesda was one of the little girls that made it out alive when young Victor killed her father and mother in cold blood; an earlier scene, Victor's first kill. She was being sold as a sex slave essentially throughout her life and recognized Victor when he tried to save her. Hard to say if she planned that meeting or if it was just fate. However since that meeting she had conspired to do the same thing to him that he did to her - take everything from him. She made him love her and look forward to raising a child. Her hate must have run incredibly deep. I am probably missing a few additional threads to the it but that's the basics of it.
shareThank you. After I thought about it for awhile I realized that was the case. However, I suppose the fact that she did eventually meet him "by accident" and make him care about her does stretch credulity a bit. Also, the fact that she had the security footage of the attack upon her makes me think that also was a set-up from the start. All of it is fantastic to believe, but I really liked the movie. It reminded me of a good Michael Mann film.
shareYes, that is the only potential plot hole: just how could she have known that Victor would be there for the chance meeting that she could set up and record.
Then again, in real life strange coincidences do occur and not everything needs explaining (it just bugs us later).
However, I suppose the fact that she did eventually meet him "by accident" and make him care about her does stretch credulity a bit. Also, the fact that she had the security footage of the attack upon her makes me think that also was a set-up from the start.
The way I see it, there are three possibilities (at least)
1-The first meeting was purely coincidental. The guy who attacked her said something about "maybe you'll stay and have a drink with us." So she had been to that cafe before. After she realized who Viktor was all she had to do was get a copy of the security tape.
2-When Viktor went back to Romania and confronted his former boss, Viktor asked how did he know and he said, "there were rumors." Perhaps Bethesda heard the rumors and went looking for Viktor and set him up.
3-Bethesda heard from one of the prostitutes who serviced Viktor's new boss about Viktor and put it together and set him up.
But I'm still left with the question of how Bethesda is "free" to set anyone up. She was a sex slave from the age of 10. But by some miracle she survived and is still beautiful and healthy. She's still a marketable product. Don' t see anyone setting her free. But she doesn't mention escaping to the guy taping the interview.
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" and recognized Victor when he tried to save her."
Yeah sure, he didn't change a bit since she last saw him 20 years before.
MrBelette "Yeah sure, he didn't change a bit since she last saw him 20 years before. "
Yeah sure, but when he meets Cesar again, before ending him, he says : =>
Viktor (narrating) " the last time i saw any of them, we were kids KILLING TIME [...] it had been over twenty years, but i recognized him _ the moment i saw his face."
Not bad written movie for sure, maybe lacks in structure, maybe this incoherence between scenes is not there just to hide the main twist, but to give this eerie, strange atmosphere that fascinated me long enough to finish the whole flick & re-watch some parts.
I have seen people who I knew in school for the first time 20 years later and recognized them immediately (then avoided them - they were pricks!).
shareYeah sure, he didn't change a bit since she last saw him 20 years before.
All you have to do is read one of those magazine articles or see one of those gossip show segments where they do a, "Can you name this celebrity" and they show a picture of someone famous when they were a baby or in high school. And it's absolutely obvious who the celebrity is.
So it's very much possible to recognize the adult version of someone you knew as a kid. Especially a kid who slaughtered your parents, almost killed you and caused you to be trafficked as a sex slave. His features would be burned into your memory.
Plus, she may have learned Viktor's name as a kid. And then years later, you see a guy who looks like the kid who kills your parent AND his name if Viktor. What are the odds?
That said, I don't see that kid actor turning into Luke Goss in 20 years. But I guess that's where suspension of belief comes in.
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