I thought it was an interesting film. How everything was put together is just mesmerizing, in particular the visuals, if a bit meandering in the middle. Also, for a puzzler, it is not as complex as it thinks it is, which will definitely test audiences when it comes out.
I do have a few questions for you all, though. Yes, I watched the film, just seeking confirmation/clarification for a few issues that, amid the horror and madness, I may have missed or misinterpreted.
(Spoiler warning is already in the title, but I'll just put it here anyway).
1. So the villagers just killed the baroness and *severely injured* the baron? I thought the tale said that both were dead?
2. The cure - it's to extend life, I get that. From *what I gather*, the extract from the old people is only a few years "worth," but more is extracted from Lockhart since he is young. Is this why the doctor said to Hannah that Lockhart is "all that I needed?"
3. The eels - they go into your body, do heaven knows what and generate the extract? This goes on until your body dries out and is then dumped, I believe.
4. Pembroke and the Indian - we saw them dead, but then they come back. What is going on?
5. How do you interpret Lockhart's smile at the end? Did it suggest that he has gone through so much/seen so much during his stay that he became jaded (which to him, means "feeling better")? I kind of like how it leaves this part up to interpretation.
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cbnspanky2
7 years ago
I'm already forgetting most of this because I didn't care for it, but here goes
SPOILERS AHEAD
1. I just remember the quick cut to the picture of the baronnes being set on fire. I know the baby was cut out and tossed in the magic water. My guess is the baron was severely burned, as we see from the face transplants, but survived on the serum?
2. I don't remember hearing that line. My guess is the younger donor could have more effective juice? I just assumed the whole delay with Hannah having her daddy's baby was the delayed puberty, which was caused by her life being artificially elongated from the eel juice extractions? It took her 200 years to reach puberty!
3. Exactly my thoughts. Remember at the beginning when he first drinks the water and there is a pupal version of the eel in it? That and the repeated treatments, tube down throat, would finally overwhelm the body resulting in tooth loss and finally anemia and death.
4. Didn't we just see them in suspended animation in that water tank, before we saw them alive again? I think that suspended animation tank was where they went to recover from the iron lung tube down throats machines. You only saw someone dead once they were wheeled to that lair under the burned down church.
5. This is just my interpretation. Firstly it seemed almost the smile of a maniac. He had seen so much. A smile of someone who just escaped horrors. But, I read a bit more into it. He is still full of eels, he has tasted Hannah's eel juice at the bar in town. He was a very aggressive type A personality.. Could he be considering eternal life? He has the know how and the 200 year old child bride also.
Wow, even writing about this plot sounds as goofy as the final product. Let me know what your thoughts are.
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tobymeyer
7 years ago
Weeks later, I'm still trying to figure out #5. Did he have all his teeth? I can't remember. Does that mean anything?
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