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Questions about her...

posted 6 years ago by HAL 9010 (906)
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I am not exactly sure what she was?

Was she a demon resurrected figure that slowly morphs back into a human as the story progresses?

Or

Was she a molested child that survived her murder attempt and withdrew into the woods, killing everyone in her path and, for some reason surviving by eating their flesh? And once she stopped eating rotten flesh, her body (and soul) slowly healed itself?

Was her wounded face a representation of how she saw herself? Or was it actually just insanely scarred and somehow healed rather perfectly as the movie progressed?

The lady with a gun specifically commented on her Halloween look, making me believe her demon face was real and not just representing her tormented situation. However, in the end, as she drives away, her face is normal.

I am confused? What was she?

[–] FreshCannedFarts (8) 6 years ago

Just watched the film. From my understanding. She was dead. The mom's boyfriend bashed her brains out with a snow globe. You can see she dies as she's buried alive.

She's undead. This is shown in a few scenes. Her hands are icy when she touches Alex. She has no feeling of pain when she burns her hand with the lighter.

I assumed things would go in a slightly different direction. I thought that Alex would slowly turn (you can see his darker side when he kills the lady) into a demon as they slowly switched roles.

Kind of glad it didn't go that way...

As for why she turned... Pet Sematary? :P

[–] HAL 9010 (906) 6 years ago

Thanx, I think you are right.

[–] Seperatrix (1241) 3 years ago

"Was she a molested child that survive her murder attempt and withdrew into the woods, killing everyone in her path and for some reason surviving by eating their flesh? And once she stopped eating rotten flesh, her body (and soul) slowly healed itself?"

That was my assumption. I didn't see anything that made me consider supernatural elements. But there is certainly an argument to be made if one wants to go in that direction I suppose.

[–] HAL 9010 (906) 3 years ago

Her change seemed supernatural? Her very scarred face, became normal by the end of the story. How?

As I wrote: Was her wounded face a representation of how she saw herself? [then not supernatural] Or was it actually just insanely scarred and somehow healed rather perfectly as the movie progressed? [then supernatureal]

The lady with a gun specifically commented on her Halloween look, making me believe her demon face was real and not just representing her tormented situation.

[–] Seperatrix (1241) 3 years ago

Yeah, I get you. As I said before, there is an argument to be made if one sees a supernatural explanation as the better alternative.

I'm just saying it didn't occur to me when I watched the film. Yes, I was curious about her face at the end of the film, but it's not like filmmakers don't "cheat" occasionally with McGuffins. What made me more curious was how she was able to magically appear on a limb above her first victim. Now that would certainly favor the argument for the supernatural, perhaps, because that occurred at the beginning of the film before we were introduced to her backstory. But I suppose I wrote that off as a misdirection once we learned of what had happened in her life via the abuse suffered at the hands of her mother's boyfriend.

Maybe it's also bias since I don't see how adding a supernatural layer to this story enhances the film at all. Compare that to the Blair Witch Project, which some have argued did not involve the supernatural, but I prefer the opposite reading.

[–] HAL 9010 (906) 3 years ago

I think it is one of those things where one can view it in different ways... I, too, prefer the natural to the supernatural spin...