Ok, just saw this movie.
what happened at the end? i dont understand what was going on?
why did her brother attack her?
tom sizemore apparently realized that he was wrong about the prophecy and figured it out before he died, but he didnt pass it on to us. so what was the real prophecy?
I didn't catch the entire movie but this what I surmised of the ending: not man versus beast but Man-Beast, half human/half creature would destroy him.
If we can save humanity, we become the caretakers of the world
tom sizemore apparently realized that he was wrong about the prophecy and figured it out before he died, but he didnt pass it on to us. so what was the real prophecy?Knicks (Sizemore) always thought that the prophecy referred to a struggle between humankind and the two beasts. What he discovered at the end, when the holy blade did not kill the Beast, was that the prophecy refers to the Beast and Zig. Zig is the one who represents humanity and she is the only one who can kill him and save the human race. The Beast turned on Zig because he has to kill her to triumph in the war of good versus evil. The ending is ironic, because Knicks realizes only before he dies that he has been fighting Zig, torturing her and turning her into a monster, when she is mankind's only salvation. share
Yes, but even she didn't catch her importance with humanity. She loved her brother and wanted to fight side by side with him. I'm not sure if she dealt with her brother to save humanity or herself. And it may not matter in the big picture....
If we can save humanity, we become the caretakers of the world
Yes, but even she didn't catch her importance with humanity. She loved her brother and wanted to fight side by side with him. I'm not sure if she dealt with her brother to save humanity or herself. And it may not matter in the big picture....I am not saying she killed her brother to save humanity. I am saying that her action saved humanity. Basically, Zib thought that the Beast was only a monster because of people like Knicks. She was sorely mistaken. share
Yes, she may not have known the outcome because of conditioning.
If we can save humanity, we become the caretakers of the world
I only wish there was a proper denouement that shows Zib reintegrating into society. I would have liked a glimpse into how she would went about living her life now that everybody she has ever known has died.
shareThe prophecy wasn't regarding humans vs. the 2 devil-siblings, but Zib vs the Jersey Devil. Zib felt love for her brother and had assumed he reciprocated, hence her motivation to free both of them and live happily ever after, ignoring the prophecy. Turns out that her brother just liked killing people and didn't love her back. He wanted to rise triumphant, by killing her in accordance with the prophecy.
shareThey always assumed the struggle between man and beast to be physical, but also more of a good and evil sort of thing. Zib was the one who was half human, the one born of man and beast; her brother was pure beast. Part of the final struggle was with her brother, in which she saved mankind by killing him. The other part was with herself, even more literally man and beast. She killed her brother which saved mankind, but to kill him she had to go against the human part of herself so I think the winner there is debatable, especially since she died too. Either way, in her case it was more a struggle of physical and emotional nature rather than spiritual.
shareWait, Zib dies at the end? How did I miss that?
shareI may very well be mistaken but I got the impression she and her brother killed each other. But even if she lived killing him went against the human part of her.
shareInteresting, because Damon who Knicks killed for liking Zib was actually right all along.
If she was treated better, Zib was of value.