In the end of the film, Holly is killed by a virus that has infected many people. This virus seems to be related to the one that killed her father. The film also deals with apocalyptic themes, which may tie in to this.
The movie is about a young girl named Holly who goes on a journey with her friends to find her missing father. Along the way, they face many challenges and mysteries. However, it is still unclear what actually happens to Holly at the end of the movie. ..
Why does Betsey refuse to eat?
After her father died, Betsey developed an eating disorder. She has not lost any weight since then, so it is possible that her issue is more psychological.
Another theory behind her reason not to eat is that she’s afraid of food.
Betsey was at a party with some of her friends when she saw a blood-red moon in the sky. This seemed to have a strange effect on her, and she returned to the party in a dazed state. Her friends called Holly for help, but after a short while, Betsey came to collect her and take her home.
It is the day after this event that Betsey refuses to eat. It seems that it has something to do with whatever vision she got caught up in when looking at the moon. She starts to talk about the end of the world, people becoming stars, and how she has become enlightened. She talks about her body and how it is in service to a higher power, and she suggests Holly might have something to do with the apocalyptic events that are due to take place.
As she seems to believe her body is no longer her own, this could be her reason for not eating. Later in the film, it would appear that she has become possessed but we don’t quite know what could have taken over her.
What does the moon have to do with the apocalypse?
This prophecy is mentioned in the book of Revelation, which was written in the early 20th century. The author of Revelation said that this blood-red moon would be a sign that the end times were coming.
The sun, moon, and stars all turned black and red, as if they were covered in sackcloth made of goat hair. The wind was so strong that it knocked the stars down to the ground.
“And I will restore to you the years that the locust have eaten, the ten-thousand years that the bear has lain down with her young, and I will restore your life as long as the sun shall be upon the earth.” God promises to restore people’s lives for a period of 10,000 years and until the sun sets. ..
The Lord is coming soon. He will show great signs in the heavens and on the earth, including blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood.
Betsey’s apocalyptic warnings could be tied into these verses, but before you start to panic, be sure that it’s also a natural phenomenon and not necessarily a harbinger of doom!
What happens to Holly at the end of the film?
At the end of the film, Holly realises that Betsey has been manipulating the weighing scales, perhaps to hide the fact that she really had been losing weight. ..
Betsey contemplates calling for an ambulance for her daughter but then tells her mother that she “believes her.’ We can assume this is in reference to the supernatural stories that the mother had previously relayed about higher powers, the end of the world, and people becoming stars. ..
Shortly after Betsey’s death, Holly stumbles out into the street. As choral music plays in the background, Holly falls to her knees and we see what looks like stars in her eyes. She then starts to glow and we can assume that she disintegrates and becomes a star, as Holly suggested. Or did she? ..
Did Holly become a star? Did the end of the world happen, with Holly disintegrating just like everybody else? Or was Holly seeing things, perhaps because of the grief that had overtaken her?
We can’t say for certain, but we believe that the director Ruth Paxton intended the film to end on an ambiguous note, so it’s up to you to decide if Holly’s final moments are to do with the end of the world or the end of her sanity.
Paxton says in this interview with Signal Horizon that at the end, it doesn’t really matter, just that it’s over.
This is frustrating because we know as we are left with an inconclusive ending.
This film left me with many questions about what happened to Holly, especially if I could piece together the complicated and bewildering story.
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