The Ending *SPOILER*
Do you think the father killed the autistic son that ate the other guy's mother?
shareNo, he was trying to save his family the whole time.
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I think he did because I thought I heard the sound of something like a knife or axe being used. Also, the brother seemed to have seen something shocking.
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I re-watched the ending again and just before the father emerges outside, there is this quick sound like a knife being stuck in flesh. I do not know if that is what it is or not, but I assume the father killed the boy. Also, prior to this, the melting ice cream covers up what looks like a child's figure on the table. Again, I don t know lf that is what that was or not, but to me, it seemed to be a metaphorical message about erasing the boy.
And if the brother can't see the boy from outside, I think he knew the father killed the boy. Also, in a prior scene, a window can be seen directly behind the boy at the table, but I was unable to tell if the brother may have been able to see the boy through it.
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A little while ago I read a bunch of pieces on the movie and interpretations are all over the place. Not only that, others have picked up on a variety of different things, too, and pointed out things I either missed or overlooked. I found these through a Google search.
shareI just finished watching the movie. Re-watched the end after reading your post and there is definitely NO sound of a knife being stuck in flesh (I checked thrice with my headphones on full volume). Only sound you hear is the door squeaking when he shuts it as he comes outside.
So the fate of his autistic son is ambiguous at best.
the melting ice cream covers up what looks like a child's figure on the table
The child's figure thing that drowns in the ice cream is the pendant from his mother's necklace. You can see her toying with it while she explains the 7 rules to her grandson in the car, when the 5 of them are driving away from the kid's mother just after she gets killed.
In the scene prior to that, the brother talks to the boy in the barn, who says that he ate his mother and that is then shown to also be the case with Pedro's autistic son eating his grandma, which is why he was throwing up her hair, flesh and pendants. Ridiculous to imagine a boy (or even an adult) eating a whole human being, clothes, necklaces and all, but then this movie isn't exactly based on a true story anyway. share
There IS a sound of sliced flesh right after the scene of the father's close up shot, so right at the beginning of the external shot of the house with him getting out of the house.
On my absolutely stolen and not paying a cent pirated version of the movie titled When.Evil.Lurks.2023.1080p.WEB.h264-EDITH.mkv the sound is at 1:34:13.
I just rewatched that part, and there is definitely a sound there which could sound like a knife piercing flesh, but if you watch closely, it really is just the sound of him closing and latching the metal gate at the door.
shareThank you. It is the sound of closing door, not a knife slicing flesh.
If the movie wanted you to know that he killed the boy, I think they would've shown it, since violence and gruesome scenes seem to be its main selling point and they weren't shy about showing such things. He couldn't (obviously) handle the fact that his son had devoured his mother, so just got out and collapsed in shock.
It's open to interpretation - you could argue for either possibility. I think the dad was too shocked to do anything, which is why he walked out, collapsed and screamed upon realizing his autistic son had devoured his mother.
You could also make the case that he did that because he killed the boy, but the movie wasn't exactly squeamish about gore and I think they would've shown him killing his son if he had done it.
I'm leaning towards him not killing the boy.