I haven’t seen many recently, so I can’t offer much, but you know you want to do it. Go ahead and blab that secret ending or surprise twist!
You either suffer a horrible, horrible fate in SAFGS2, or you suffer a mildly demeaning fate.
Gratuitous yak scenes. Small village in India. Chief dies on VIPilgramage across Himalayas to sell salt for wheat…did dead chief’s son only 10 years old. Chief’s father says, “Karma will not take over.” Must leave soon for more wheat before winter. Chief’s father (ex-chief) says he will go and take chief’s young son Tsering and chief’s wife Pema, even though he is very old and has not led trek in many years. Consults gods - leave in 8 days. Goes to retrieve other monk son Norbau. Norbau says he won’t come, but does anyway. Karma takes most of young village men and yaks and leaves early. Ex-Chief leaves with Tsering, Pema and a bunch of old village dudes (and a few yaks). Almost kills entire group taking short-cut. Catches up with Karma. Karma wants to rest two days, ex-Chief consults gods and sees big storm; must leave immediately. Karma and Pema get it on in a big tent with everyone asleep. Hmmm.
Karma stays by himself; rest of combined groups leave. Huge blizzard. Gratuitous snow scenes. Karma tries to catch up; finds almost dead ex-Chief that group left behind. He lives. Gives blessing for Karma to be new Chief and marry Pema and raise Tsering.
The moral of this movie is that you can’t completely negate old customs, but you have to integrate them with new ones.
Also: Himalayan Mountains are nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.
My bad…that’s “Dead” chief, not “did chief”
Also, Karma was dead chief’s second in command.
Tom Cruise does murder who the initial report says he will, just not they way you think. He get’s away, though, for reasons you have to see to understand.
SPOILERS FOR THE OTHERS
The gravestones belong to Kidman and her kids. Nicole Kidman and her kids are the ghosts who are haunting the house. Kidman, in a fit of grief over having lost her husband in the war, smothered her children with a pillow then blew her head off with a shotgun. “The Intruders” are living people who bought the house after the murder/suicide.
Actually, the gravestones in The Others belong to the three mysterious servants who show up at the beginning. The graves of the actual family are never seen.
MORE SPOILERS FOR THE OTHERS
Are you sure about that? When I saw them covering the gravestones, I assumed that they were the graves of the servants, but I seem to recall that they turned out to be the stones of the family.
The family had been living there for a few years (from before the war to 18 months after–at least 7 to 8 years), and the servants had died long before the family moved in. If they were the servants stones, the family would have known about them long before. The only reason for hiding them would be if they were new stones the family hadn’t known about, i.e., mom and the kids.
SPOILERS FOR “DON’T SAY A WORD”
The girl’s father was one of the thieves. The red diamond is hidden inside the girl’s doll, which was buried with her father’s unidentified corpse. The number is his grave marker. The motions she is constantly making with her hands are subconscious tracings of the number, which was carved into the lid of the box.
SPOILERS FOR “JEEPERS CREEPERS”
The killer is a bat-like monster using human body parts to reconstitute itself. It wants the boy’s eyes (hence the title). It gets them.
The family never found the graves before. Towards the beginning of the movie, when the servants first arrive, Nicole Kidman’s character asks the groundskeeper to keep an eye out for the graves, because she knows they exist, but doesn’t know where they are. The groundskeeper promises to look for them, and the next scene shows him burying them under the leaves. Towards the end, when the little girl finds them, you see a shot of one of the graves, and the name on it is the older maid woman.
I must be remembering it wrong. If it is as you describe it, then this is a big plot hole, as no reasonable explanation is given for Kidman and co. not knowing about the graves despite them being relatively close to the house and out in the open.
SPOILER FOR THE GLASS HOUSE
It sucked.