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Can someone PLEASE explain this film to me ? SPOILERS !!

posted 8 years ago by jon-698
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Okay I just watched this film and I am confused as hell. The constant back and fourth between English and French was very confusing and annoying.

Right, so, I get the fact the girl was the road killer in the end. But how does everyone else fit in to place ? Was the girl the daughter of the couple ? Why was she then tied up in the room ? Why did the couple say "this is the last thing I do for you" to the girl when was in the car at the end ? If the couple were good and trying to help the boy why did they not shout the reasons why to him instead of just staring silently or saying "you don't understand" ?

If the couple were in on it, why did the husband pick them both up on the road ? Who was the guy who injected the boy and then took a photo of him eating ? Was he the same man who fell over and impaled himself at the end ?

My head is spinning, I am sure it is just me being dumb, but I couldn't understand this at all.

[–] therefdotcom 8 years ago

"Okay I just watched this film and I am confused as hell. The constant back and fourth between English and French was very confusing and annoying. "

yup.

"Right, so, I get the fact the girl was the road killer in the end."

yes.

"But how does everyone else fit in to place ? Was the girl the daughter of the couple ?"

as far as i understood, yes she was their daughter.

"Why was she then tied up in the room ?"

according to the film, because they wanted to stop her from killing more people. that's why they told the dude, that she was already gone, so he would just leave. that's why they also told him, that they were trying to save him.

"If the couple were good and trying to help the boy why did they not shout the reasons why to him instead of just staring silently or saying "you don't understand" ? "

because the script was only like 3 pages long and they had to stretch it to 90 minutes.

"If the couple were in on it, why did the husband pick them both up on the road ?"

to separate them afterwards. the question in my mind is rather why the killer chick agreed to go to their house to begin with. also, why would she first hike away from them and then, after meeting the guy, hike towards them?

"Who was the guy who injected the boy and then took a photo of him eating ?"

i have no idea. i just know that those pictures he took were hanging in the couples house.

so i guess accidently that dude, as well as the couple and therefore their daughter were all insane. which was all done, to take viewers mind from the idea that the chick was the killer all along, which of course doesn't work at all.

"Was he the same man who fell over and impaled himself at the end ?
"

yes. i don't know if that was supposed to be intentionally hilarious, but i doubt it.

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My head is spinning, I am sure it is just me being dumb, but I couldn't understand this at all. "

oh, it's not you, it's the movie. it is a disaster.

[–] TheTrueCaptKronos 8 years ago

"Who was the guy who injected the boy and then took a photo of him eating ?"

i have no idea. i just know that those pictures he took were hanging in the couples house.

He (Delacroix) must have been a friend of Grizard's. As we all know (!), the French don't tolerate vegetarians so Grizard wanted to punish Jack for his vegetarianism by kidnapping and then forcing him to eat meat. The photo was so the punishment could be shared with Grizard. You probably recall where Grizard called Jack a "homme-lette" which I take to mean "small man" i.e. because he doesn't eat meat. Quite a big step from name-calling to being drugged and threatened with having your toes cut-off, but there you go.

[–] therefdotcom 8 years ago

thanks for the explanation. makes sense.

now i hate the film even more, though. xD

[–] asano 8 years ago

There are subtitles on the film for all the French speaking parts, so it shouldn't have been confusing to understand at all. In fact, I felt the back and forth between languages to be quite charming.

[–] nkavy71488 8 years ago

Well lucky you to have seen a cut with subtitles. Of course it wasn't confusing to you. The cut I saw had no subtitles - so it was not charming in the least. Thanks for your incredibly helpful input on this. That was really great.

Oh and subtitles or not, this film still made very little sense.

[–] asano 8 years ago

I didn't steal the movie. I saw it on the big screen and paid for a ticket.

[–] nkavy71488 8 years ago

Making assumptions are we? ;-)

[–] asano 8 years ago

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1913435417/

[–] trombleykyle 8 years ago

Honestly, I've watched over 110 films on the big screen alone, and I'm extremely happy I streamed this one for free..

[–] asano 8 years ago

A whole 110 films? Wow, that's impressive. You must be very knowledgable.

[–] Agentphantom0 8 years ago

Get off your high horse you condescending douche. Stop trying to be clever, idiot.

[–] pupil77 7 years ago

Well lucky you to have seen a cut with subtitles. Of course it wasn't confusing to you. The cut I saw had no subtitles - so it was not charming in the least.

You were supposed to watch the movie with subtitles, no different than watching the elvish dialogue in the Lord of the Rings movies.

I'd say your frustration with the movie stems from not viewing the movie as intended, and not because the movie was poorly made. Of course, that doesn't mean the movie is great or even made sense.

My biggest problem was the kidnapping part where the guy was untied to eat the soup but didn't resist as the old guy duct taped him to be carried to the truck. Why didn't he fight at that moment? Are we supposed to believe that he didn't think he could take an old man? Pfft.

[–] Scream_Kween 8 years ago

I assume the married couple helped their daughter kill people but when Jack came along they finally had enough. I don't get who that guy was that kidnapped Jack and took a photo of him eating was though.

I'm not crazy, I just don't give a fṷck!

[–] asano 8 years ago

The mother did not, for sure. The father helped to "clean up the mess" because he thought he was protecting her. The roadkill collector is a local oddball neighbor who was helping the married couple try to "scare" Jack to leave (ultimately to save him) but of course it didn't work. Things maybe never got that far along before and they didn't know how to get rid of him? Anyway, Jack is somehow at the end a replacement for the father, potentially could help clean up killings or maybe even they could go on to kill together? Otherwise he might get killed himself...

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[–] sgcim 8 years ago

The whole point with the parents was that they didn't want Jack to know that she was a serial killer, because then they would get implicated in the murders also.

Jack would go to the police if they told him their daughter was a serial killer.

I'm not positive about the photo part though...

[–] Gdawg0987 8 years ago

Yeah i think sgcim is correct. The neighbor was only to scare the hell out of Jack so he would run away and never look back...of course in the real world Jack would probably have contacted the authorities on the crazy neighbor and everything would have came out anyway...but we're to assume Jack would have just ran away after waking up along the road drugged again if all went to plan.

The main thing that is confusing me is Jack's relationship with the mom. From the scene where Jack commented on her tattoo on her shoulder, I was under the impression that they knew each other. Is this just a wrong assumption on my part?

[–] Em0411 8 years ago

They didn't previously know each other, it was just a bit of flirting and mutual attraction. She is a beautiful woman, amazing eyes, and he's a hunky young dude, who knows how long it had been since she had gotten to be around a hunky young dude!

When you get up in the morning, how do you decide what shade of black to wear? (Shallow Grave)

[–] Em0411 8 years ago

And she was also desparate...

When you get up in the morning, how do you decide what shade of black to wear? (Shallow Grave)

[–] pupil77 7 years ago

Was the girl the daughter of the couple ?

Yes, near the end when she confronted the couple, she called him 'dad'. He even saw her as a little girl in a flashback, briefly.

Why was she then tied up in the room?

The couple are her parents and they tied her up so she wouldn't interfere with the father getting rid of the guy.

Why did the couple say "this is the last thing I do for you" to the girl when was in the car at the end ?

They've gotten rid of many bodies when the girl would kill people and they don't want to do it anymore.

If the couple were good and trying to help the boy why did they not shout the reasons why to him instead of just staring silently or saying "you don't understand" ?

Because to explain their reasons, it would be impossible to not mention that their daughter was the road killer. The guy would obviously go to the police and the girl would go to prison.