Please explain
I don't get the ending
sharePerhaps this will help:
https://mashable.com/2018/06/14/hereditary-ending-explained-everything-you-missed/#zR_rjQeDMaqa
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I've not seen the film but I watched this explanation the other day. ⤵
https://youtu.be/hW_GokVMbNA
Toni Colette's mother was in a crazy cult which worshipped some ancient demonic deity. She was grooming Charlie to be his vessel, but this entity need a male body so Joanne tricks Tony (sorry, can't remember her character's name) into bringing Charlie's spirit from beyond so she could take possession of Peter's body (any male body would have done, really, but they settled on his brother probably as revenge for the accident) when the time's right and truly become said deity incarnation on Earth. It was pretty straightforward.
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There was nothing stopping him from going directly for Peter it that was all that was required. Even if Ellen needed to perform some kind of ritual to bonded them together and Annie's refusal to let her near Peter when he was a baby prevented her from doing so then, they were living in the same house by Ellen's final days.
I did find it weird both Ellen's husband and male child committed suicide, though. Maybe she tried to use them as vessels at some point but for whatever reason didn't work out. She looked quite young in the photos Annie found of her and Joannie, who knows how long has she been worshipping this deity...
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Crap, I totally forgot about Annie's specifically saying her brother accused Ellen of "trying to put people" in him before committing suicide. Just read an interview with the director where he basically confirms it. Still, it is weird AF Annie's dad just starved himself to death. Maybe he was privy to his wife extracurricular activities and couldn't bear it anymore.
Also, it would seem Ellen put the demon in Charlie when she was a baby (meaning, she was Paimon all along) and they had a hand in the accident so Paimon's spirit could be "free" again and take possession of a male human body.
What "revenge" for the accident? They're (the cult) are the ones who orchestrated it. Did you watch this movie at all I wonder?
shareDid you even bother reading my following comments, I wonder? :)
sharei did, & you were wrong, & you also referred to Charlie as a "he". Again they're the one's who killed Charlie or at least set it up that way, so what are they taking revenge for?
shareWhere did I misgender Charlie?
I corrected myself in the thread (it is literally above yours in the expanded view) but only because that was what the director intended, not because it is irrefutably clear in the context of the movie.
The cult most likely put the deer there, but they had no way of knowing a) Charlie was going to have an allergy reaction at a party she wasn't even invited b) Peter will get high and be drive her to the nearest hospital like a madman instead of doing the responsible thing and carry an e pen with him c) Charlie will stick her head out of the window JUST when they were nearing that post.
They sure went through a lot of trouble to accomplish every other step in their ritual for me to believe the A Wizard Dit It trope was being invoked in that particular scene.
To answer your questions:
a) You should have paid more attention to grandma's funeral (both to the people attending it and the family dialog)
b) No one in the family ever carries a epi pen (see point a). Peter didn't need to be high to drive her to the nearest hospital like a madman. He didn't have an epi pen and the party was in a house in the middle of nowhere, so one can understand why he might have thought that he had a better chance driving to the nearest hospital instead of calling for an ambulance and waiting for it to come to the middle of the desert.
c) Charlie did not need to stick her head out of the window JUST at that moment. I guess that the director didn't want to spend movie time showing us Peter driving for miles with Charlie's head out of the window and he preferred to get to the point.
But anyway and more importantly,
> They sure went through a lot of trouble to accomplish every other step in their ritual for me to believe the A Wizard Dit It trope was being invoked in that particular scene.
a) You didn't get the miniatures metaphor
b) You weren't paying attention during Peter's class about Heracles
c) You definitely haven't watched "The Omen"
- "What is Heracle's flaw?"
- "Arrogance"
- "Okay. Why?"
- "Because he literally refuses to look at all the signs that are literally handed to him the entire play"
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