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Originally Posted by ImmortalSlasher
Wait what was [SPOILER] all in her head [/SPOILER]? I like High/Haute Tension right up to that car chase scene. Is that the part you are talking about in the spoiler? It could have been shown far more clearly by the director if that is what's happening. I watched it a few times because I couldn't believe the twist.
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Yeah, the car chase scene is probably the easiest detail to pick apart once the twist is known. If you give in to the fact that many of the events in the movie are [SPOILER]
from the perspective of someone who is schizophrenic and delusional[/SPOILER], then IMO, it's all acceptable. Personally, I don't mind that Aja didn't spell that out completely, leaving it up to interpretation, and to me, it's not a far-fetched conclusion to draw.
However, I do completely agree with those who say the twist was totally unnecessary. The movie was great without it, and could easily stand alone as a well executed and memorable human atrocity / slasher movie. All I'm saying is that I'm okay with the twist and it didn't ruin it for me.
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Originally Posted by The Villain
This may just be blind defense of that movie but i always saw it as this. The aliens are weak against water and they are capturing humans who are mostly comprised of water so i saw it as they were capturing them so they could study them and try and beat their weakness. However this was never said in the movie so it's really just me making excuses but the movie wasn't really about the aliens anyway.
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I'm glad you have that take on it because other than the water detail, the movie was brilliant -- one of my favorites. I'm willing to accept any plausible explanation for the water "flaw." I've always just been good enough with: The aliens are technologically advanced and physically strong and agile, and believe they can mitigate the risk enough to succeed on their mission. If humans were to "invade" Jupiter, we would need to mitigate the risk against poisonous gasses and deadly temperatures, but that wouldn't stop us from trying.
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Oh, and I should also mention that the actual final ending to the movie, IMO was totally awesome. Assuming everyone's already seen it (*** SPOILERS ***) -- the fact that the aliens had already "won," that the now-faithless father, still reeling from losing his wife, was about to lose his child, and that the the boy's weakness, his asthma, actually saved him -- a coincidence too perfect not be divinely designed -- giving the father back his faith... Beautiful.
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Originally Posted by Rela1024
I know the ending to Evil Dead II was a lead up to Army of Darkness but I didn't care too much for it......
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Blasphemy. :)