can someone please explain the ending to me? I know that he said that his blood is the cure but then why didn't he use it to save the zombies? and what is the significance to the butterfly?
2007-12-23 07:58:50 · 6 answers · asked by otisia24 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
He couldn't save the Dark Seekers (Zombies) there, there were too many of them, and they wanted to kill him for what he did to them earlier, and because he captured their female.
There's a lot of takes on what the butterfly represented. Most say religion, but I believe it differs depending on the occasion.
In the case of Anna and her relation to Robert Neville, it was hope, not so much religion.
In the case of the glass breaking (at the end), there's a lot of speculation on that. I myself like the one which relates closest to the book, about the Alpha Dark Seeker and the female Dark Seeker Neville had abducted.
When he first abducts the female Dark Seeker, he is surprised to see the Dark Seeker Alpha try to save her, actually coming out into the light (which visibly shocked Neville, and made him ponder later). The same Alpha is seen again, setting up a trap for Neville with the dogs, and again, when leading the attack on Neville's suicidal trap. In the end, it is the same Alpha who storms Neville's house, and in the basement, tries to break the glass by himself after seeing the female.
The symbolism here is subtle, but when Neville looks at the Alpha, and then the female, he hears the voice of his daughter, and is reminded of his own relation with his daughter, the glass the Alpha is breaking (on his own) then takes the form of a butterfly, the symbol which represented his relation with his own daughter. So, he knew the Alpha would never stop, just as he (Neville) would never stop to save his own daughter, or the promise he made to her, and thus opted for suicide.
2007-12-23 10:01:26 · answer #1 · answered by S P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the middle of the movie you see his kid making a butterfly with their hands. and at the end you see that the lady had a butterfly tattoo and she is a religious person, and said that she talked to god and he told him to come here. So then he knew that it was a message from god telling him to save their lives and to give the blood to them to cure themselves and the other zombies
2007-12-23 08:12:04 · answer #2 · answered by guitarrocker024 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To add to Pirate AM's comment:
Yes, the blood of Jesus Christ - to save the dead (parallel the zombies in the movie) - - & the butterfly (symbolisms) of being "born-again" to a new life.
2007-12-23 08:15:25 · answer #3 · answered by Frank S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an obtrusive reference to Christ and the butterfly represents metamorphoses and a new beginning.
Besides having poor CGI effects on the human zombies, this is a thinly veiled pro-religion, anti science film.
2007-12-23 08:04:45 · answer #4 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know sorry gave up on the film after a short time, seems a bit like 28 days later
2007-12-23 09:22:54 · answer #5 · answered by ringo711 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i can only say that he couldnt use the cure himself for all those monsters(there were hundreds of monsters), it was impossible to cure them all.
2007-12-24 10:42:56 · answer #6 · answered by alien 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋