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Did you know the dad was really the ogre in disguise?

posted 3 years ago by VectorOfTheMoon (192)
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At the end of the movie, when the dad showed up at the house, did you suspect it was the ogre in disguise? Or were you genuinely surprised when the kid stabbed his own "dad"?

I feel like that scene is pretty ambiguous at first because the audience isn't 100% sure the "dad" is a fake or not, especially because we don't see him in the movie prior. Also, that kid seemed way too eager to stab someone who looked like his own father (even though the kid knew it was a fake), lol.

Especially right after the "dad" said I love you, and the kid was like "wrong answer" and flat out stabs him in the gut.

Earlier in the movie, the kid said he hated his mom and didn't want to live with her, but he probably has some very strong feelings about his dad too.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18170) 2 years ago

I can only imagine what the parents' reactions plus their families in the audience was like to seeing a kid stab their dad good in the gut with a kitchen knife.

[–] VectorOfTheMoon (192) 2 years ago

Yep.

That was an over-the-top scene. Especially because there's very little foreshadowing that the father is actually the troll in disguise. Like I said, that kid seemed way too eager to stab someone who looked exactly like his dad, lol. Imagine if that had been the real father and the kid stabbed him by accident, ha ha.

I already knew the dad was fake when I first watched the movie, because I checked parental guidance before my viewing, and it mentioned that a father gets stabbed after telling his son "I love you". I figured there was something very suspicious if they were going to allow that in a PG movie. So when Molgarath showed up in the movie, I was like - "He's going to shape-shift into the father at some point, isn't he?"

Every time I read a small detail about a movie, it's like my brain starts picking it apart and "spinning the wheels" in the back of my head as to how everything leads up to that scene, lol.

[–] thingmakersback (1414) 2 years ago

I was thinking, from somewhat earlier in the film, that since the ogre could assume human form, he might actually BE the father all along... The father who was obviously bad news and who was not coming to the house, which had a magical circle to keep out ogres and goblins. So I was a bit disappointed that it was just the ogre pretending to be the dad.