I feel kinda slow. What was the significance of that last scene at the diner? The weird exchanged glances etc.?
Another question - did the girl's period mean something symbolically? Why was it mentioned in the film?
(Apologies for my English)
To me, the diner scene was the final release from whatever kind of spell the boy was creating. The girl had a plate of food and when the boy came (and only when the boy came) was she allowed to eat something (presumably for the first time). Once she had eaten something, they left, completely cowed. And her glances back strongly implied the girl still had a thing for the boy.
I think it was to show how the boy had all the power at the end.
Huh, I hadn’t thought of that possibility but you may be right.
shareI agree about the power. I’m trying to figure out if there’s any significance with the french fries. In the beginning, the boy and father met at the diner. The boy explained he liked to eat his french fries last, bc he enjoys them. The father says he does that as well. In the last scene, the daughter eats the french fries first, and drowns them in ketchup.
shareA friend of mine also pointed out that the color combination of the fries and the ketchup mirrored the color combination of the son's blood and his yellow shirt or sweater he was wearing when the father shot him.
shareI took it for 3 things at the end:
1.They went there on purpose because it's where he and the boy met up at and they figured he'd show.
2.He wanted to see which one he would pick; he acted like he wasn't surprised with the pick. It seemed to me he was like "They picked Bob, oh well.."
3.And he wanted to tease the girl and see if she'd respond back; she did at the end albeit very subtly.
I may be way off base but I took it to mean that the girl was pretending the entire time.
shareGlad I'm not alone.
At the beginning of the movie, Bob is getting attention, etc at the table, she constantly looks for approval.
IF you pair this with her weird sexual behavior, I took her smile at the end to mean, Thanks Martin, now I'm the only kid.
If only there wasn't that one scene where Kim crawls downstairs and asks Martin to make her legs work. Without that scene that would've been the best ending.
shareAgreed. The interpretation of her pretending falls apart unless you can ration that her crawling down there was a performance for someone, but we never got any indication she thought someone else was watching or that there were security cameras.
shareI think it really just showed that while Martin got his revenge. Did it make him happy and satisfied? No, he was still alone. His Dad was still dead. The Murphy's survived it and were still a family. And Martin was left behind in the dark. What he wanted was a family and he will never have that. And Kim looking at him wasn't subtly sexual. She was showing she was stronger than him and will go on and live her life.
shareI lean this way, too. Her look was ambiguous, but she was eating the fries first...that's very anti-Martin.
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