the ending
someone wanna explain the ending? how was he the cause of the wreck when he was in the wreck
shareHe's stuck in a sort of time loop.
I think it's really hard to understand and found a real meaning to the plot but, anyway, i'll try to share my interpretation:
The young cop and the old one (Ramzi or similar) are the main protagonists of the story.
All the crazy events are related to the story that the young cop tells to Ramzi in the "dreamy" scenes at the restaurant.
In the story the young cop tells to Ramzi about a pact done with an old friend, "whoever dies first must appear to the other without scare him" or something similar. The same night his friend died in a car accident. The initial scene of the movie should represents the manifestation of the friend to the young cop but in my opinion that one WASN'T his friend. He was the cult leader that for some unknown reason needed him in future for a sort of inexplicable ritual.
The events brings the police squad to the shrine and the dialog in the final part of the ritual was explanatory, the cult leader knows the name of the two cop and says to the young one "i wasn't wrong", and to Ramzi something like " I thought to found just you but instead you're two, thanks to took care of the boy"
Ramzi in fact in a scene at the restaurants tells to the young cop that he had similar visions with the same hooded man (the cult leader).
He knows that are nothing good and try to warn the young cop and wants to take care of him because of a promise he did in the past.
In his final moments before die he literally gave the key to salvation to the young cop but, at the same time, it's a damnation because killing the cult leader leads to a sort of infernal time loop where the starting point is the van crash.
The story is a mess with lots of points not explained, the crazy sequences at the shrine are well done but are clearly fillers with random disturbing stuff and the characters are 2D. Many flaws but it's not so bad at all…there are worse. 5/10
i think this was the surface plot, but they made it clear that the intitial cops who went to the scene were the same cops who we are first introduced to. One of the primary cops uses the radio to call for back up, suggesting the people he is calling are the same people he is with now but earlier in the loop. However, the cop standing by the wall in a an affected state argues against this.
there were so many car references
- kid being run over
- parents later being in a car crash
- the driver being accused of being too drunk to drive before he drives
- almost running someone over
- hitting someone that disappeared
- abandoned cop car
- getting hit by car at the end
this ties with the prologue - the pact between him, friend and the kid hearing moans from the room.
I have only seen it once - but I think he was traumatized by his friend dying and also walking in on his parents having sex. He might have even had a nightmare about his friend dying and went to seek solace from his mother but was rebuffed by the weird breathing inside.
I think the entire movie was a series of manifestations of real life traumatic events. In order to rationalize the effects that events had on the main character, the sleeping brain sought to add all the horror, anxiety-inducing stimuli to the dream (cultists and gore).
I think the entire movie was a series of manifestations of real life traumatic events. In order to rationalize the effects that events had on the main character, the sleeping brain sought to add all the horror, anxiety-inducing stimuli to the dream (cultists and gore).
I thought the same exact thing. At one point I just thought, is all of this just from him seeing his parents having sex. And I thought it was interesting the older cop kept mentioning how the younger cops Uncle asked him to keep the younger cop safe, then the cult leader saying "I wasn't wrong" Him knowing the two cops. I wonder if maybe he was molested as a child? i.e. the arm grabbing him into his room. Or is that too much? lol
I know it doesn't look like it, but that little bird is really a dove asking us for world peace share