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Have the filmmakers explained the ending? (Spoilers, obviously)


I haven't been able to find any explanation of this movie's ending. First they make it out of the building but get caught again on the roof, and there's a fade to black. Then there's a "3 Months Later" card and they're in a van with a baby (probably fathered by one of the bad guys), but looking pretty much happy and they drive onto the freeway and that's the end. What the hell happened in between? Are they working for the bad guys now, or was there another big showdown that they couldn't film where they finally got away? This was one of the un-clearest endings I've ever seen, thought the movie itself was pretty intense but the ending was just plain frustrating not knowing what was supposed to have happened.

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In the final scene, you see:

1. The two main characters' eye colors have changed (from blue/green to jet black). This indicates that they have now turned into one of the "bad guys," as they also had black eyes.

2. The two main characters both appear incredibly calm, even (dare I say it?) happy---definitely not freaked out and/or amped up like one would be if they were making a great escape.

Now, try to imagine two individuals who were abducted, imprisoned, and experimented on for months--and then they reappear having physically transformed (the eye colors change) and holding a child far older than the stated "3 months later." They seem to be on their own recognizance, and are even driving that van from the beginning of the movie.

Keep in mind: the exact nature of these "bad guys" is unknown; they could be aliens, infected with a virus, mutants, making a reality tv show, diseased, blood sacrificing, or even attempting to create a new superhuman race... anything, really.

The ending is rather chilling because the bad guys' intentions are ambiguous. The protagonists are now "one of them" (i.e. the bad guys), roaming freely among the general population with their freaky super-aged baby to do god-knows-what. We don't know what they want, or how many others are out there, or if they have the means to 'transform' normal, everyday people on a mass scale, with ease.





Personally, I'm leaning towards the "superhuman race" (mentioned in another post on this board) and/or human-nonhuman hybrid theory. It seems that of the 4 couples abducted, only the two main characters (Dave and Jessica) had successful 'transformations':

-both made it through the medical experiments/operations without dying (unlike Maria, Summer, and that other chick), or feeling "something crawling around inside" of themselves (unlike the PhD guy and Summer's boyfriend)

-both managed to adjust to their 'transformations' without the deleterious effects their abductors and douche-bag bro experienced (the boil/pock marked skin, ambulation issues, wheezing)

-both survived getting shot with multiple sedative darts (unlike skinny guy)

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-both managed to adjust to their 'transformations' without the deleterious effects their abductors and douche-bag bro experienced (the boil/pock marked skin, ambulation issues, wheezing)


That's not true..
Dave has still boils on his hand.
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Yeah, pretty much agree with you. It really doesn't matter, who really gives a poop. The main thing is that it finally ended.

To the OP, they are alien hybrids now. The van is full of Twinkies laced with alien DNA. They're on a tour of the country to visit every 7-11 and Circle K, so they can place the Twinkies on the shelves.

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