The Descent

well, ok..... and to be honest, all your explainations of the ending are perfectly apt... and also as you say you have heard the director speaking of his intentions too...

but I do think that you are a bit blinkered to the other possibilities.... especially where you say she gets killed at the end as the monsters approach.... maybe they are just doing their thang down there and making a bit of noise for no reason... as they did for a fair bit of the film. There were no signs of them approaching...

Furthermore.. the closing scene......
shows her on a ledge in a huge canyon section of the cave. This is not where she initially lay unconscious. In fact, that place was more of a pit with a pool of blood at the bottom. So I feel its perfectly acceptable to believe that this is some sort of mental episode that she is experiencing.


and in actual fact if she dreampt the ending, or imagined her escape.. well, that would go down alongside the whole 'dallas - it was just a dream plot' and that would really belittle this film for me.

Anyway, like people say, no big deal.. just mulling over some ideas - everyone I know who saw it (some movie reporters included) was quite 'in the air' about the ending too.
 
Saw it yesterday, I haven't seen a film that scary for a long, long time!!

Would definately recommend it, good story, good acting, bloody scary - my nerves were shot to pieces by the end, and I consider myself quite immune to horror!!
 
i saw it last night. it was bad enough with all the small spaces at the start, but it was quite a gory film. everyone in the cinema inc big grown men were jumping.
 
Great movie, scary, brutal and dark and the ending to me has no double meaning - she's screwed end of story. It's a homage of sorts to the movies of the 70s (not just horror) that had downbeat endings that left you haunted. It's not an anticlimax either.
Unless the whole film is a dream portraying what's going on inside the traumatised mind of the surviving character (i.e a descent into a mental hell). Hmmmm....
 
One of my mates thought it would have been good if in the end it turned out taht there had been no monsters after all and the surviving character had killed all her frienRAB as she slowly lost it over the film!
 
:eek: Yup - Seen it and I can confirm that it does have some genuinely jumpy moments. Sometimes without the prior tension build up you expect.... sometimes with that satisfyingly sweaty build up.

Its actually not a bad plot for a horror movie. Sets it up, and then gets on with the thriller.... infact it doesnt even wait around for the set up before the shocks start to crash in! Literally.

Some nice scenes away from the caving too... although I thought the cabin reunion bits went on a bit too long... though thats all I can pedantically poke at this movie.

I was thoroughly shocked, thrilled and 'gored' throughout.

Although would anyone care to share any thoughts on the ending?

here's mine....

she got out of the cave, but now when she has her happy flashbacks to her daughter they exist deep in the cave...... or.... the other woman appearing in her car with her at the end, simply triggered an 'episode' ?? Im not really sure.
 
Aphelion said:
:eek: Yup - Seen it and I can confirm that it does have some genuinely jumpy moments. Sometimes without the prior tension build up you expect.... sometimes with that satisfyingly sweaty build up.

Its actually not a bad plot for a horror movie. Sets it up, and then gets on with the thriller.... infact it doesnt even wait around for the set up before the shocks start to crash in! Literally.

Some nice scenes away from the caving too... although I thought the cabin reunion bits went on a bit too long... though thats all I can pedantically poke at this movie.

I was thoroughly shocked, thrilled and 'gored' throughout.

Although would anyone care to share any thoughts on the ending?

here's mine....


don't be so stupid - how can you think that's what happened???
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i didnt find it that good at all, there was only 1 part of the movie that made me jump a little.

i think it was kinda stupid that out of the Blue Lara Croft and Alice from Resident Evil come out and kick the monsters arse.

it was so fake the way they became kick ass machines.

after reading the first few posts here i thought it was going to be great, but it was an average movie to me.
 
oh i can't be bothere waiting.

DON'T READ THE REST OF THIS POST IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS.





she basically doesn't get out. she hits her head, knocks herself out and that whole scene of her climbing out, getting in the car etc is all a dream. when she comes too she is STILL in the cave, with no way of getting out. it is that SIMPLE. how could you think anything else???
 
So when she throws that Axe into the the monsters back and poses like she is Lara Croft that didnt seem a bit stupid to you ??

they turn from scared women to killing machines!!!
 
PJ68

Hey, listen, no need for such a rude retort there. Just offering a couple of suggestins as to what the ending was all about. Spoken to around 8 people about it (and incidentally we all work for a huge film/tv/radio broadcaster - so theres a few well versed people here) and we all have different ideas as to the ending.

Had to chuckle that, although you called me stupid, you need help to write spoilers so that others cant see... anyhow, to help you out... you use the faded 's' icon at the top of the entry box... then insert the text in the pop-up.

Anyway, PJ68... how come my suggestion of events at the end is so ridiculous? :cool:

How else would you account for the girl who was killed, suddenly appearing in the car.. and then the cut to the cave scene.

Im not saying that what I put in the last post is my idea cast in stone - but just a couple of ideas we mulled over.

:)
 
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