I think it's actually pretty easy to not be effected by the last 20 minutes of the film because of some of the over-the-top story line and behavior of the characters in order to make the situation seem plausible in the film's context.
I don't argue that this may not happen in this way, but some aspects of the movie are so overly exaggerated cliches or completely unbelievable to the point of it not mattering how the final part plays out. It really seems like the director only took cliches and outside information on how teens behave to make this movie rather than doing any actual research into teens. The over the top social cliques, the unbelievable behavior of some of the teens' reaction to what happened to their friend, the cliche but poorly acted and filmed news footage, and the unbelievable technical fantasy (skype doesn't record video, neither do phones when video calling others, not to mention the random friend who suggests Megan to speak to Josh yet knows so little about him that she can't help police) they try to impose all make this a very bad film with question if any research was done at all.
Furthermore, any decent film maker knows that the audience's imagination is more than capable of coming up with the outcome of such scenarios, like at the end of this movie, that it doesn't need to be shown what actually happens. In fact, at times it's considerably more horrific when people aren't shown what happens and are left to their imaginations to conclude the story and the situation, and that can most of the time be more horrific than anything you put in a film.
Putting the last part into the film didn't open up anyone's mind to the situation, if anything it has a higher chance of numbing people to it than doing any good. Think about, most of the people who have lost loved ones due to situations like this only want to know what happened no matter how terrible it may be. They just want to know. Not satisfying that need is more horrific and eye opening than putting in some sort of grotesque ending into a movie to try and prove a point. Good film makers know this and use it to their advantage, bad ones over compensate with gruesome scenes that only make people cringe while they watch, rather than let their minds horrify them with the possibilities as they leave the theater.
Overall this movie was very poorly done, and while I can commend the director for trying to get information out there to help people, this is a bad way of doing it. You want to see how a good movie about internet predators is done? Watch Trust (2010) and you'll see what Megan is Missing struck out on.
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