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Ending question. SPOILERS

posted 19 years ago by marjokla
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I saw this when I was young and again recently on HBO or STARZ or one of those movie channels. At the very end after the police come to the school to question Sally about the kidnapping/kidnappers' bodies it shows formaldahyde (sp?) jars with organs and the like in them. It showed the jars at the beginning of the movie too but I was wondering if there were new additions to the collection because the final shot lingers on the jars. Are they insinuating that the class took souvenirs from Father Christmas and Daffy Duck or did I read too much into it? I've always wondered about that.

[–] sweetiep_18 19 years ago

I believe they do take a souvenir, it was one of the men's hearts. If you listen at the end when they are showing the jars, you hear the heart beating in the background. The heart is in that tall jar, the one at the top in front of the window.

[–] TerminalMadness 19 years ago

I assume they gather the remains of Father Christmas. I think the main one on display was his heart. It was a last scene that stunned me and really stuck with me how these kids became so primal in the end. Excellent film.

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[–] raytm27 18 years ago

The first time I saw "Fortress" it had said it was based on a book of the same title. My sister had a copy of the book and had been reading it when the movie first came out on HBO. In the book, it describes that the teacher and the class cut out the heart of Father Christmas. That is the heart you see which is the final shot of the movie.

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