Two, actually. #1. End of the movie. Bethany runs off to turn off God’s life support and she tells Jay to keep Bartleby occupied. Being the stupid sort, Jay shoots off Bartleby’s wings, which makes him human (right?). At this point, Bartleby hasn’t gone through the arch yet and there are 3 of them (Rufus, Jay and Serendipity) and only one Bartleby. He’s fully human. Why don’t they jump him and beat the shit out of him? Grab a gun from one of the dead cops and shoot him? Throw something at him? They do chase him when he heads towards the church, but it’s pretty half hearted. If he’s fully human at that point, I’m gonna try a lot harder than they did to take him down with existence in the balance.
#2 Why did Bethany start to bleed when she killed God? (Stigmata? Christ was stabbed in the side) I’ve seen the movie dozens of times and never been able to figure that one out.
I don’t know about #1, but as for #2 isn’t there some kind of big special effect reaction when she kills him? I assumed she’d been hit by whatever sharp medical instruments were around.
I just watched the end of the movie. As for #2, there was a big special effects reaction when the body God was in died - in particular, lots of divine lightning. One of the lightning thingers hit her in the stomach, both injuring her and impregnating her with the next Zion.
Got me about #1, other than speculating that none of them would want to get anywhere near a crazed loon.
For #2, I seem to recall that there was a line in the movie about how it was necessary to have a martyr? I figured Bethany got killed just for that reason, and to bring her back from the dead a la Jesus.
The easy answer to number one is that they’re human beings in a wierd, stressful, and very dangerous situation, and people in those circumstances do not always make the smartest decisions.
Well…I dunno. But I think the company in question just didn’t have a murderours heart. It was a hard thing for normal people (including dead people, theorical entities, etc.) to wrap their minds around. And it did happen in apparenty a few minutes, so maybe they didn’t have the time to think (beyond their own nature.)
And I always thought she bled (and by the way died) because god was dead and she and her child died with him/her. Only once he/she came back could she revive the woman and the baby.
She couldn’t have been pregnant when she died. Remember, her husband had left her because she was barren and couldn’t have kids. I’m pretty sure she didn’t become pregnant until she was resurected. When she took God off the respirator, it just blew a big hole in her stomach. When she was raised from the dead, God healed her completely, womb and all, and quickened one of her eggs.
I always thought the bleeding was from hearing the voice of God. Earlier in the movie they say the human mind is incapable of hearing the voice of God. That’s why the need for the Metatron (the Voice of God).
When God “dies” he screams, Bethany starts to bleed.
I’m just speculating here (I haven’t watched the movie recently) but just because he became mortal doesn’t mean he lost his powers. Superman’s mortal but you wouldn’t want to get in a fistfight with him.
However, he did say that he expected the upcoming police gunfire to kill him, so he had assumedly lost his invulnerability. I would guess then that your second plan of grabbing another gun and shooting him would have worked. It also implies that Jay’s shooting was amazingly bad - he apparently shot Bartleby just exactly enough to clip off his wings and make him mortal without a single bullet striking him elsewhere afterwards and killing or wounding him.
I seem to remember there was a scene that was deleted where she was injured, when it was cut they added the effect where the lightening strikes here when the old man dies.
You have to watch closely- I missed it the first time- but when she pulls the plug on God, a beam of light from Him does strike her in the side- and yeah, I’m sure it’s an intentional reference to the Spear Wound.
This was my thinking as well- he became mortal, but not actually human in the full sense of the word. While I don’t think that the three of them could have physically restrained him, they probably could have shot him (not with Jay’s gun, as he used all the bullets) but weren’t thinking clearly enough to do so.
