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Originally Posted by Tommy Jarvis
I saw the film during a festival. During an interview before the screening, the director said that the original script had been lying around for a few years. When he eventually got around to filming the script, the MeToo-movement had already started and he figured the original ending would not work/be appropriate in these times. He did not specify for obvious reasons (spoilers and such) and I did not attend the Q&A after the screening (last train home to catch), so while I might have a sneaking suspicion, I can only speculate.
So the story is: a man and his daughter live together on a farm. Evenings, they go to bars in the surrounding areas - where she poses as his girlfriend - with the intent to pick up and take home vulnerable women that he can then torture.
Throughout the movie, the subject of suicide comes into play quite heavily. The mother of the main character commits suicide at the start and she offers suicide as a "way out" to her father's victims. So the end might be her committing suicide as well after stopping her father. Whereas now, she and the final victim join forces in order to go on a Dexter-like killing spree.
For me as a viewer, the new ending works very well (also if you just look at it for what it is without the - for lack of a better word - baggage) and the reasoning for changing it makes sense, so that makes this a good example of how the times are changing.
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OK, so you suspect the original had the daughter committing suicide, but the director updated it to something else, such as attacking the father and not ending it all? I understand you're speculating a bit cause you didn't hear the director's Q&A.
I guess there have been films where the female main character commits suicide at the end, like The Haunting, kind of in Carrie, but that's extremely uncommon, not sure I would call that an 'older-times trope'. Not really sure how the Me-too movement moves the scale on the daughter committing suicide or not... you know, compared to the decision of whether or not the film maker would even make a film about a dude who uses his daughter to entice women to his home where he can torture/kill them in light of Me-too.
Do you think modern films make the females less damsels in distress, as I do?