I actually found the movie as a whole moderately entertaining -- BUT...the scene where the guy plunges the knife into Angelina's "pregnant" belly has to be possibly the vilest scene in movie history!
shareThat's the point - he's a killer.
And that's how she lured him in, knowing he would do something horrible like that, and it's how she tricked him and caught him. You have to deal with killers in a way that they will play back. And she did what she had to.
It's not supposed to be "enjoyable" to watch that part. It's supposed to show you that here's a man who's been killing people for twenty years. It's appropriate to show, albeit nasty, of course.
And in my opinion it's one of THE best endings in a thriller, EVER. Such a thrill to watch that scene with an audience after having already seen it. It works because it gets the audience involved, shocks them, and then releases the relief. Great ending.
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The violence of that scene caught me completely by surprise and caused a moment or two of abject disgust. How I laughed, how relieved I was when it was shown to be merely a ruse. Superb.
shareYou may find it a vile scene but people do vile things in real life!
It's a great ending though, great ruse!
I thought it was pretty obvious that the stomach was a fake. The second the knife went into it, I knew that this movie didn't have the guts to do something like that.
shareWhy not ? I mean you've had films like Cannibal Holocaust show actual footage of children getting killed. Getting knifed in the stomach while your pregnant is nothing.
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When i saw it in the theater, i along with the entire theater gasped very loudly and then was very quiet. It was something that the film and tv industry does not have the balls to show on screen. Which i think is a very good thing, because the murder of children is something i literally can not take. And not only that scene, but when he pushed her to the ground and she slide on her stomach. Again the entire theater made a noise of a subtle "oh my god..." in unison. I found the scissors scene to be the worst thing shown in this and pretty much any other flick. Its just painful to watch, even when you know she was never pregnant.
Hey I've been in a firefight before, well I was in a fire...actually I was fired.
oh my goodness i so hear you!
i was watching it alone, and i had my hands over my mouth THE WHOLE TIME! first when he pushed her into the claw thing, i was like "OU!" but u know, i was like ok maybe shell be ok, then she slid on her stomache and i started to cry!! no joke, i just cant handle that kind of stuff! then when he was holding her telling her to calm down i was like: oh my goodness thank goodness he didnt...then he stabbed her, i screamed! but when i didnt see blood i was like: maybe it didnt do anything, when she stabbed him i was like: YES!! thank goodness it was a fake belly, THANKS GOODNESS!
great ending though, soo surprising
Yeah me too. I'm used to violence in movies but that really made me gasp! Must be the whole taboo about violence against women,children or the elderly. Was great for shock factor but I agree, I knew they wouldn't have the guts to make it real. Pussys :-p
shareHelp me out folks - I have tried to watch this film 3 times and always got bored or called away towrads the end. I always miss the part from after kiefer sutherland gets killed and up to the belly-stabbing. Fill me in.
So, keifer gets killed and then what?
Do her and ethan hook up just so she can catch him in a trap?
spell it out for me.
As for it being vile, yes it was but no more vile than the horrific rape of a female cat (as in housecat) that was depicted in the canadian film LEOLO. My husband and his friends were watching that on IFC one night a few years ago. I was already close to losing it because of other over the edge sick stuff in the film but when the they showed the cat with a belt around its neck struggling to get free and the kid making humping motions.. I ran from the room and started crying hysterically. I cried so hard I wound up vomitting and getting a migraine headache. The image was so awful and the mere idea that a director thought it was OK to depict som,ething like that disturbed me profoundly. It was unecessary to the plot and it was played for a laugh which made it even worse.
As for Cannibal Holocaust, they wanted you to believe the killings were real but they were not. What was real in that film was the evisceration of that large turtle and that was more than I could bear. Depiction of live cruelty to animals is just something I don't ever need to see again if you know what I mean. I'll never get that cat rape out my mind. Don't watch it just to say you saw it - you'll regret it.
I just took the scene to reflect the writers of the film's opinion on birth control and single mums in general
shareThere was a similar scene in 'The Cooler', where Alec Baldwin's character kicked a pregnant lady in the stomach. The thing is, we didn't know that she was NOT actually pregnant (she had a fake belly thing, like Angelina Jolie's character did), but Baldwin knew that she was faking the pregnancy.
shareif that was her plan then why did she have guns everywhere in the house and reached out for one?
shareobviously you haven't seen "Irreversible"
two extremely vile scenes in that movie.
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By the time I actually made it to the "pregnant stabbing" scene, I was so bored with the film and its horrible attempt at suspense and twists that I:
1) Half expected her pregnancy to be fake.
2) Was finding myself morbidly happy to see Jolie's character stabbed.
This was a horrible film. Just awful. They were trying so hard to make this a thriller that they forgot about plot, continuity, and character development. The end scene was pointless. He's there! Just shoot him!
Yes, the film started out really well, wonderful credits, nice opening scene, it was interesting until she explained his whole life with the poster with the different victims, then started going downhill until the last scene where it falls off a cliff. Ugh.
shareYou really wanna see violence against a pregnant woman that will make you gasp with it's ferocity? Don't watch the crappy Taking Lives, watch Inside (A l'interieur).Much better film and a real shocker.
shareThere is a pretty vile scene in "Outlaw" with Sean Bean - but in the movie, it is not fake but for real. So no comic relief here.
TheatreNachos Which version did you watch, theatrical or director's cut? The theatrical version sucks but the DC is quite decent since it fixes a lot of the issues you just pointed out and it's a much more graphic movie.
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