What is the ending? - We Are What We Are (2013) Discussion

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[–] dpaquin 10 years ago

@philpip I just finished watching this, the English remake and the stuff you are referring to did not happen(eating townsfolk rampage, etc) were you adding to the story, or seen an alternate cut or referring to the Spanish version?
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[–] S_Solomon 10 years ago

This ending you're describing is not at all the ending I watched last night. Which version did you watch?

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[–] aiturnizzle 10 years ago

If this was the ending in the version I watched, i would have enjoyed it much more haha

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[–] Spixe 10 years ago

He's just messing with you guys. The real ending is what the first guy said.

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[–] spotlightne 10 years ago

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philpip
» Sat Oct 19 2013 05:23:22
IMDb member since November 2007

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After the credits roll, it shows the doctor and his daughter out in the garden enjoying a beautiful day, but she picks up her teacup and shakes the tea right out of the cup- now you know what the family was feeding their captives before butchering them, and the only cure for the shakes is the same thing which caused the disease in the 1st place!

The downloaded version of the movie I saw didn't show that bit of the film.

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[–] jwwalrath-227-85487 10 years ago

Thanks.

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[–] kmarkus98 10 years ago

the dad prepares a meal for the whole family with arsenic in it, but before the family can eat it the doctor shows up and theres a shooting match their both injured but not dead. the kids try to run away but the dad catches them. he brings them back to the table and while he is kissing rose on the cheek before sitting down to eat she bites his neck and then Iris stabs his hand to the table then the daughters start eating the dad until he dies. then you see the kids driving away in his truck. (its hinted that the doctor lives)

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[–] jwwalrath-227-85487 10 years ago

Thanks. What happens to the neighbor and the deputy?

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[–] Cleric-J-Dubois 10 years ago

SPOILERS....... ( ERR OBVIOUSLY ) deputy gets a spade in the back of the head whilst enjoying some graveyard sexy time ( with the eldest daughter ). Sadly for him it's a spade wielded by the not very well dad so I suspect it was swung extra hard. Plus I don't think deputy managed to....... err........ well you know. And as for Miss Kelly, she got woken out of her sleep by a screaming younger daughter banging on her door ( even had to take out her ear plugs ) she opens it and let's her in asking "WTF is going on?" Then she goes to look out her window....... and BAM! PSYCHO DAD SLICES HER THROAT. She dead.

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[–] brainbiter 10 years ago

I agree. The ending was not at all in keeping with two people who had spent the entire film working out ways of getting away. All that hand-wringing and guilt only to kill the Father they undoubtedly love? Rose it was who initiated the final assault, yet Rose it was who'd earlier stated unequivocally that God himself couldn't get her to repeat the murder in which she'd just participated [Mrs Stratton]. Even if you assume they just snapped why leave with 'the book', a reminder of everything they wanted to escape, placed firmly in a position of honour on her lap - unless of course they'd been turned after all, or the disease was starting to get to them? Someone mentioned a sequel. Hope it includes Ambyr Childers. For me her resemblance to England's Judy Geeson [in her younger days of course] means she's definitely someone I'd like to see more of.

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[–] spotlightne 10 years ago

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» Wed Nov 13 2013 08:26:44
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I agree. The ending was not at all in keeping with two people who had spent the entire film working out ways of getting away. ..

Well I think you misunderstood the film.

The cannibalism was built in them. The scene showing them tearing at the flesh of their father underlined the fact the girls couldn't escape what they are: monsters, beasts, animals.

I don't think they loved their father at all. They were just fed up of his strictness. They wanted to get away from him, more than get away from the eating of dead bodies.

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[–] DisturbedPixie 10 years ago

While I agreed they are cannibals, and that's that, the ending made them look as you pointed out like monsters. Obviously we are all animals, so that is unimportant. Most animals do not eat their own fathers, and I can't think of one that typically does off the top of my head.

But throughout the film they seem to have tradition of how to properly kill their food, and a nice proper dinner which follows. It seemed very traditional for any family that hunts and slaughters it's own food, except for the exact food being people. But then all of a sudden they are ripping into their father's flesh like rabid beasts that don't know better. All their humanity and traditions seem unimportant as they get this urge to feed in a grisly unprecedented manner. The only thing that seemed different than their upbringing traditions is that father wanted them all to die together, and they didn't seem ready to die as a family for him. I'd get if they slit his throat and then prepped the meat, maybe if they even freeze it to use over a year, but the way they went at it just seemed so far from their proper ways, or the ways of guilt ridden people hoping to never have to murder again.

If it weren't for that odd ending, I'd give this a higher rating than I did. The ending just didn't make sense in the context of their story. I see some people mentioned the original's ending being better, so I will certainly check that out sometime. I try to watch the original and the remake anyways for the fun of comparing and contrasting the works.

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[–] thenikexperience 9 years ago

I think you are forgetting that there was arsenic in the food, they were running out of time, and that if someone didn't do something to hurt the father or restrain him, they all would HAVE DIED? Think about it - the girls had no other way to kill or restrain the father...so Rose took the first chance that she could, to incapacitate him in the only way that she could - to rip his throat with her teeth. After all, they had eaten human flesh before so isn't it fittingly ironic that this is the way that their dad goes? I also think that after the initial bite, Iris just joined in and they both continued to eat him alive because it was kind of a, "See, this is what it feels like" kind of moment, for them to make him experience the pain he caused otherr\s. On top of the physical pain, there was emotional pain, since they are his daughters and they have betrayed him by killing him. As someone said, they are monsters - and they do not want to be monsters - but in this moment, they used their monster side in order to save not only themselves but the poor doctor who would have probably been killed after dinner. What else could they have done? What ending would you have preferred? If Iris pulled one of the guns out that she happened to get while her dad was next door, and then shot her dad in the head? Then everyone drives off to the city? That ending is so cliche and has been done a million times. I very much like the ending that this film chose - it is a very profound ending, shocking, and it definitely makes sense. If it still doesn't make sense after my post, then I don't know what to tell you.

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[–] Lupo_Solitario 9 years ago

Agreed, but why did they take the book with them and held it in such a way? That was a bit odd, as if they wanted to continue their cannibal rituals which was out of line with the character development of the girls through the whole movie, i.e. they hated their life of cannibalism.

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[–] BlueeRain 9 years ago

Agreed, but why did they take the book with them and held it in such a way? That was a bit odd, as if they wanted to continue their cannibal rituals which was out of line with the character development of the girls through the whole movie, i.e. they hated their life of cannibalism.

True.

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[–] lenvm 9 years ago

Your excellent comment made me realize that the most shocking part of the ending is that the daughters with whom we'd identified throughout the movie as they half-resisted their horrible father are actually more repugnant than their father. Incidentally, I thought there was something early on in the movie about how their mother introduced the practice to the family, so maybe it's the women who carry on the tradition ...

Watched this after "Cold in July," which was brilliant; this one wasn't quite up to that level.

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[–] seth-shaw23 9 years ago

HUGE SPOILERS

The girls didn't like or enjoy the family tradition and wanted to change. However in the end they couldn't resist doing anything different and ate their father. When they leave at the end, they bring the old diary with them insinuating the tradition will continue. Therefore, We are what we are.

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[–] michaudjo-456-238213 7 years ago

***SPOILERS***

I just watched the bluray version, and the two daughters eat the father. It doesn't make sense. From what I gathered throughout the whole movie, the two girls didn't want to kill and eat people. Also, it never showed the doctor again (Michael Parks) but rather shows the three kids driving away in the truck instead.

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