No real spoilers here, but be warned anyway, lest I be accused
This is not a great movie but well worth the watch, and I'll watch it again someday. Acting was good, plot kept me following. wrapped up a bit too quickly but with a twist I never saw coming. an ending I didn't like as much as I could have, but then I love happy endings, and it didn't have one. But I think its good for me to not get them sometimes. Probably there should have been a bit more to explain and tie the central phenomenon into the later revelations, but see at as a metaphor people.
People seem to think the ending was not in keeping with the story or that the radius phenomena didn't really relate to the end where as I think they were intricately linked. I think the backstory actually explains the meaning of the front story. He killed everyone around him - near the end we find that he .... (hmm hmm?? get it? get it??). Her presence had a particular effect on him, and in the end this resulted in him taking a particular action that took care of present and past issues (hint hint nudge nudge, metaphor metaphor). If you must have a hand wave for the phenomenon can we say that her fear and desire to stop him at a particular moment (when he declared she could not) created a psychic force and link between them that caused the whole situation? Of course that's stupid, and I'm glad they didn't bother to try explain it that way or any other simple way.
This is not a great movie but well worth the watch, and I'll watch it again someday. Acting was good, plot kept me following. wrapped up a bit too quickly but with a twist I never saw coming. an ending I didn't like as much as I could have, but then I love happy endings, and it didn't have one. But I think its good for me to not get them sometimes. Probably there should have been a bit more to explain and tie the central phenomenon into the later revelations, but see at as a metaphor people.
People seem to think the ending was not in keeping with the story or that the radius phenomena didn't really relate to the end where as I think they were intricately linked. I think the backstory actually explains the meaning of the front story. He killed everyone around him - near the end we find that he .... (hmm hmm?? get it? get it??). Her presence had a particular effect on him, and in the end this resulted in him taking a particular action that took care of present and past issues (hint hint nudge nudge, metaphor metaphor). If you must have a hand wave for the phenomenon can we say that her fear and desire to stop him at a particular moment (when he declared she could not) created a psychic force and link between them that caused the whole situation? Of course that's stupid, and I'm glad they didn't bother to try explain it that way or any other simple way.