The ending... The teacher

It's a very fitting imo. The teacher ends up in a cell... just like the kids she used to teach.

She doesn't commit suicide because she knows, on some level, she deserves this fate. There's a passage in the book where she realizes just how complicit she's been in the horrible things done to the children. How she wasn't teaching them for their own benefit, but rather to facilitate their exploitation by the researchers. Her penance is to live in that cell and finally teach them for real. For their own benefit, not somebody else's.

So yes, I totally buy the ending. Best part of the story, in fact.

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Most of your questions are answered in the book. Spoilers, but Miss Justenue was ravaged by guilt from pre-breakdown. She was a college student and was drunk driving. She killef a nine year old kid and ran. She was never caught because of the breakdown. The guilt almost overpowers her. She is faces redemption by teaching the next evolution.

Also, the vehicle has the ability to purify waste and water. It also has hazmat suits, an airlock and fuel. It is determined in the book that the previous inhabitants abandoned it because their food ran out. It was starvation in the vehicle or take your chances out in the breakdown.

The movie is a Zero was crappy from the beginning to the end waste of my time really ..

I didn't read everyone's responses, so I don't know if anyone covered this, but outside of Justineau's guilt (for everything these children were forced to endure, since they were so much more than a "pathogen"), I think there are two other reasons why she is able to carry on (as she does at the end).

Firstly, and this is identified with Justineau's touch (of Melanie's head in the classroom), she feels something more for Melanie. It's more along the lines of kinship. The same could be said at the end when they reach for each other, their hands against the glass. Justineau is almost maternal, and Melanie responds to that by being an even better benefactor than her adult "guardians" (wards, what-have-yous).

Secondly, Justineau is a teacher at heart. She derives her sense of significance from educating, and how better to be of use (not only for Melanie, but to this entirely disenfranchised group of kids). I think it's a simple allusion to the idea that we _are_ what we do. The doctor was a doctor until the end. The soldier a soldier. The teacher a teacher. Truthfully, the only thing that wasn't what it was was the monster. Interesting food for thought.

And that's how I saw this entire movie. A very thought provoking zombie movie. Unlike some, and better than most. The little girl who played Melanie was wildly talented, and I love Paddy Considine, whether he's hilarious or making me cry! I am really glad I gave this a try, and for those who find less, I'd encourage looking a little deeper. =D

I hated that ending. Completely unrealistic. I can't believe how long and slow paced this movie was, and all we got was a completely crap ending. It was total garbage. She would have died/turned from the spores the second the girl tried to give her any food. The spores would have gotten in or on anything. It made zero sense. It wasn't a cleaver ending. It was awful. Plus, the kids were too feral to suddenly become students.

I was liking the kind of new approach to the zombie genre they did. I liked the fast moving spore zombies, and they had some atmosphere to the film. The base story was interesting, although the pace was too slow and the movie was too long. That ending completely destroyed it for me. It would have been far more believable if the teacher died, and Melanie became the teacher of the kids.

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The teacher was crying at the end - she knows her life sucks but she was clinging onto it because she had nothing else left. I think Melony would let her live as long as she had something to teach the new generation but, as soon as there was nothing to learn, they would eat her. That was the whole point of the film, the old has to be destroyed/die for the new to rise up - it's a metaphor for the generational shift in the Western world ATM.

EDIT - I haven't read the book, this was my take just from watching the film.

Loved the ending. It's an happy one. For Melanie. The teacher was with the captors. Same captors that just really wanted to kill her and/or use her for their own profit. She has no reason to be loyal to them. Really just a perspective issue.