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Just one doubt (spoilers)

posted 10 years ago by rudykawa
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why did he spared the brothers when he rescued the girl?

I thought he was thinking in another way of doing it or else, but after it's just a final shootdown.
Not that he was some kind of gentile since he killed unarmed persons throughout the whole movie.

Also could not buy him saving the girl, giving it back to her husband, then he knows the brothers will be blood thirsty after him and he decides to take revenge on the old sniff lady and after go get some sleep?

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[–] Legendary_Badass 10 years ago

I saw it yesterday and though I thought it was OK, I had a number of complaints about the story and how it was told. Yours can't be answered because they are errors, and here are some more.

The narrator was a cheap trick. She waits until 45 minutes into the movie to drop the most important details, chiefly the right if the first night part.

Whatever the stranger's mom told him doesn't add up. As he understood it the groom rescued her, but it looks like he was too late and if that were so she should have told him to wait 'til morning.

I wish there was more vigor and personality in the movie. The town doesn't seem to be worth saving.

Also the "twist" at the end is seen a mile out given how everything was coming full circle, it was a matter of convenience.

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[–] rob-2253 10 years ago

The rescuing groom can be explained by the fact that it wasn't only about the "first night", but about as many nights as necessary to get the bride pregnant (it is explained like that, don't remember by whom, Luzi probably). So he did rescue his bride an unspecified time _after_ the wedding, to spare her _any_ _more_ visits from Brenner.
At that time they couldn't know about the pregnancy. But it's important, because that rule is necessary to make Brenner Greider's father, which, although it is never told, seems obvious by Greider's tears when he shoots him.

I agree that the town didn't seem worth saving, and I would say this isn't the primary objective of Greider either. He just wants revenge for his mother.

[–] dalfak96 8 years ago

I don't consider this a plot hole.

It can also be explained that it is actually unknown who the photographers father is. And it doesn't matter. Perhaps his mother was raped before she was rescued, perhaps her lover was the father of the photographer, or he might have been conceived later on after she fled the village.

The old man saying he killed his brothers might have been pure speculation, or just a way of trying to get back at him before getting killed. In these times before DNA tests, there was no absolute way to be sure, and it adds to the ambiguity of the film.

[–] kelii3 9 years ago

I wish there was more vigor and personality in the movie. The town doesn't seem to be worth saving.

Agreed, and as you noted it was very obvious from the beginning who Greider was and the reason for him being there.

[–] timlin-4 9 years ago

And why didn't they kill him? His plan was ridiculous. Seems common for European movies to be strong on style and theme and then throw in childish action

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[–] dalfak96 8 years ago

Yes, this bugged me too.

At this point, the cat was out of the bag and it was pretty much all-out war. He was never after a fair fight. He had already assassinated, not killed in any kind of fight, but coldly murdered, three people. Now he had four more bad guys on his list in front of him, unarmed and at a disadvantage.

It seemed more in line with his character and mindset to just finish them off when he had the upper hand. Sparing them, or rather saving them for later, made no sense.