Ending?
I don't get the ending.
shareI think the ending was completely tacked on, and wasn't really thought through well. It even includes a major plot hole that could have easily been glossed over.
In the final 2 rounds, it's revealed that an unborn child counts as a person, and has a vote, but earlier on in the movie, we are told that when it is down to the last 2 people, one has to sacrifice themself or everyone dies....
Logistically speaking, if the last person standing is a pregnant woman, there is a 100% guarantee that she will lose the child.
Let's assume that the finalist is the pregnant woman, and not the sociopath. Next round would be a tie between her and her child. Either she votes (somehow) and kills her child to live, or she does not vote, and both mother & child die. (For the sake of common sense and cold logic, I am briefly going to entertain a thought that the foetus is sentient, and votes for its mother to die, because in any case, it would also die soon after)
But in the post-game scene, we see some other survivors, which include pregnant women. This is not possible.
In any case, the movie would have been better:
a) If the post-game San Fransisco scene revealed that all the winners were selfish dregs of society, as bad as the one who won in the movie.
b) If the post-game epilogue was not included at all.
c) There was some other Twilight-Zone ending (e.g, the 'losers' didn't die & the game turned out to be a test for human morals, or they were all recently deceased people in a sort of purgatory, it was all a dream & each person represented a part of someone's psyche as they battled a brain tumor etc.)
I agree that the aliens were just a plot device to set up the scenario. What I think would be an awesome sequel is if they take the people who survived the first round and then put them into other groups of 50 people and keep doing that again and again until pretty much no one was left. I wonder how people would vote if they were in a group that was made up of mostly pregnant women and children. That could be around two.
I also disagree with the person who said if 98% of the human race was wiped out there would be everyone living as members of the 1% in mansions. Yes there would be vacant mansions but with that many people dead the entire society would collapse, there would be no economic foundation of society, and the survivors being mostly made up pregnant women and children, a very vulnerable segment of the population, would probably die rapidly under those circumstances and would probably envy the people who died rather quickly in the elimination.
"In the final 2 rounds, it's revealed that an unborn child counts as a person, and has a vote, but earlier on in the movie, we are told that when it is down to the last 2 people, one has to sacrifice themself or everyone dies....
Logistically speaking, if the last person standing is a pregnant woman, there is a 100% guarantee that she will lose the child.
Let's assume that the finalist is the pregnant woman, and not the sociopath. Next round would be a tie between her and her child. Either she votes (somehow) and kills her child to live, or she does not vote, and both mother & child die. (For the sake of common sense and cold logic, I am briefly going to entertain a thought that the foetus is sentient, and votes for its mother to die, because in any case, it would also die soon after)"
Watch the scene again, she falls onto a different panel and since the foetus is still alive it registered as a new life form entering the game which he then decided to kill.
If the Pregnant Lady is last survivor, she "wins" and gets returned to Earth. She and the baby occupy the same circle. And, since there's only one circle with life on it, that's the winning circle and the game ends.
There's no way to vote for your own circle. Mother and baby could only face off if they were on different circles. Maybe she could lay down so that her belly is on a neighboring circle? If she really felt like voting against the baby, I suppose. Would hurt like the dickens, probably.
There's also the fact that the foetus isn't an individual person in the scientific sense. It was only after the death of the mother that it was surviving self-sufficiently, so by the logic of the circle pregnant lady and foetus are still just one person.
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