Father's Day Segment ending
Anyone has any idea about the ending? What happened?
shareYeah, I had hope for it, but than it just went to crap. Im guessing some sort of cult ritual.
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I'm guessing dad needed her to escape the salted circle and become real or something similar.
shareI don't understand why there is that guy on the chair in the end if she became real. I thought he crossed her over to the dark side or something like that. He does say 'You only get one chance to meet him' before she opens that door.
shareSorry, maybe I wasn't too clear. She is real and crossed over into his world. A salted circle usually indicates a barrier to trap something supernatural. We see her cross into the circle where the "dad" is waiting in the chair for her and he looked like some type of ghost/demon. My guess is that he/it needed her to escape from the salted circle prison so that HE can become real and/or cross into human world.
shareWhen she first walks into the building I'm sure something ran past the camera for us see. This was before she went through the door so doesn't that invalidate the salt circle theory?
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I actually forgot about that. Good point
shareDon't know. I think I thought the running creature was something like a gatekeeper and separate from the dad in the circle. It didn't occur to me that there was only one entity or that they were the same type.
shareExactly. Good eye!
shareI think she was spirited away.
"I'd like to keep Spike as my pet"- Illyria, Angel S. 5
Yeah, I just watched Holidays and Father's Day is the one that disappointed me the most.
I mean, at first, because of the Earth/Moon shot that kept appearing I was expecting him to be a Werewolf or an Alien or something... but it went to crap really quickly.
Fine, fine, I'll leave! But first I'm going to bother these peanuts! Hmm? Yes? Hmm? HMM?
I took it to mean he was a vampire type creature & needed her to cross the line on her own accord, so he could bite her and make her immortal like him
shareThis could've been the best segment if they didn't screw up the ending.
The last two segments were great, Easter was pretty good, Valentine's day stumbled and was predictable. St Patricks, Mother's day, Halloween all sucked for the most part.
Winner is New Year's by a mile. I laughed, I loved the twist, loved the ending
The most interesting thing about Mother's Day was the final shot unfortunately.
shareI was also confused by the ending of that segment. I don't really understand why she wouldn't be "real"... to me, it seemed like the father had actually died, but then existed as some of demon. If there was symbolism in the things he said on the tape, it was mostly lost of me. There did seem to be some sort of occult aspect to some of what he said, but overall it just seemed a bit jumbled and mostly just moody with the creep factor and imagery.
shareAt one point he mentions a picture called an Icon - Symbol of faith
He mentions you only get one chance to meet him and visit this place
Then at the end he says you came here out of your own free-will, exactly while shes crossing over the salt line which as pointed out, is usually sprinkled on a path/door to protect from evil which cannot pass it.
So I do imagine this had to do with some cult or religious group and he dragged his daughter with him
Happy Father's day
I got a decidedly Lovecraftian feel to the story.
shareI just watched the segment again and essentially what happened is when the father left the little girl, he crossed over into the demon/spirit world. He was not able to take her along, because she had to do it by her own free will (for whatever reason). So when she grows up and is old enough to decide for herself, she goes to see him. He is sitting there waiting for her, but cannot meet her until she crosses the line of salt. Once she crosses by her free will, she enters the demon world, and that's pretty much it for her. Just as an aside, there was a short scene where one planet crosses in front of another - this is called occult (like occult moon) but I think it's also a reference to the occult or something demonic.
shareIt was too ambiguous..whixh is fine "sone of the tine"..2001, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Lovely Molley...but this short was a Horror/"Mystery"..and in Mysteries the writer can't (or shouldn't anyway) leave TOO much ambiguity/questions on the table.
shareI wouldn't necessarily compare it to lovely Molly which I'm pretty sure was simply about mental Illness.
shareI think there's two ways to interpret the segment. Not sure which is what the director intended though.
1. The father was involved in the occult and and crossed over to some other world. He wanted the daughter to join him,since he can't leave.
2. The father or someone was involved with the occult and sent the tape to the daughter as a sacrifice to whatever that thing was.
This is pretty much what I thought. It had to wait until she was old enough to do it of her own free will and maybe each member that gets taken has to sacrifice one loved one to keep the circle going.
shareAny thoughts on her phone call to her mother, leaving a message...and then later her mother calls back? There may or may not be something there. My thoughts were that the daughter was going to answer the phone and the mom would say that her father was dead BEFORE she crossed the salt circle. The story could have gone in an interesting direction with that.
*I grieve for the strength to wake up each day with a blank canvas
and paint it to my liking.
I wish we could have heard what the mother had to say, maybe something along the lines of how her father was indeed really dead or not human/evil. But in regards to the mother and the plot itself, isn't it just a tad bit weird that the mom waited an ENTIRE day to call her daughter back? I mean if someone left me a message like the one she left her mom, I would call them back asap...
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