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My theory on the ending.

posted 10 years ago by rushknight
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Essentially, Niamh discovers about halfway through the movie that it is her that is causing things to move and kill people. She then becomes fully cognizant of her powers and learns to control them (nothing paranormal happens without her knowledge after she confesses that "it's me" to her counselor).

She doesn't really know what to do until she goes to the "doll party." There she essentially witnesses that all human beings are inherently abusive, as the young ladies mistreat the baby dolls.

After that she decides that the safest place for children is to be forever removed from their parents. So she kills them all. In her mind, it was a mercy killing.

After that, she decides that the safest place for her is also dead. She brings along her foster parents to "try out" their point of view, washing them and dressing them and assuring them that they will be ok. She then kills everyone, including her two "acolytes", Peter and Emily.

[–] eric_m_bi 9 years ago

Nice theory, though I think killing the parents was more revenge for them slapping her than anything else. I think the ending is a metaphor for child abuse in general; how abused children often become child abusers themselves, and the scene where they all burn to death is symbolic of the hell that such concepts create.

[–] songod-95003 9 years ago

Second time watching and I really do not understand why she immolated herself and the other two abuse survivors.

Was she so lost that she resigned herself to death thinking nothing would ever get better? That no adult could be trusted? She and all the children were all better dead??

She could not see that her power, once controlled, would benefit her?

[–] eric_m_bi 9 years ago

The story went in a really good direction until the end, in which it seemed like the movie wanted to copy Stephen King's Carrie.

[–] songod-95003 9 years ago

I didn't pick up on the "Carrie" connection but yeah, you are right. Her character development had been gradual up to that point and then bam she kills everyone (almost anyway) including herself. I was just baffled by why she'd kill herself and her two friends.

The writer(s) either planned it that way or suddenly found themselves in a box with no logical way out and chose a quick and trite exit.

The two who could have perhaps stopped things were the teacher and school counselor. She realized the girl was suffering from PTSD, as did the teacher, but told or informed no one. Had they, maybe she would have gotten the correct help.

[–] trombleykyle 8 years ago

Yeah, and the way Niebh collapsed the building on the kids, was also comparable to Carrie. At the end of Carrie her house was covered in stones. I pretty much thought throughout the film, that this wss basically A Carrie vs Sinister reinvision

[–] Tyler-A-Arse 9 years ago

Well. At least you HAVE a theory. I watched it and was as baffled as anyone could possibly be. Ending makes no sense. The movie was barely interesting to start with. Easily a forgettable movie.

[–] bfp13108 9 years ago

My theory is that she was a little pyro, the other children were her enablers and most of the adults were dodgy at best, maybe even wankers.