Continuity mistake: When Marie is in the back of the van taking the chains of Alex, Alex picks up the knife and it is obviously bent. Once the chains are off and Alex puts the knife up to Marie to defend herself the blade is straight, and stays that way even when "the killer" takes it out of his chest.
High Tension (2003)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Cecile De France, Franck Khalfoun, Maiwenn, Philippe Nahon
The killer isn't real. He exists only in the mind of Marie. The "killer" is nothing more but a character apart of Marie's Dissociative Identity Disorder (a.k.a. Multiple Personality), which was formed from Marie's secret and violent obsession and affection for Alex. This secret crush for Alex gave Marie a violent side, making herself proclaim that she won't let anyone come between them, not even her family. So that's why Marie, the killer, slaughtered Alex's family, only putting an image in her mind that it was someone else who did it. In the last scene, we come to the image of Marie in the hospital room from the beginning, only for us to realize that it's really a mental institution. It then becomes aware that the entire movie was being told from Marie's point of view on how she saw everything, but she's totally unaware that she was the real killer all along due to how psychotic she is. Alex is shown standing outside the room looking at Marie through a two-way mirror. Even though Marie can't see Alex, she knows she's there, as she opens up her arms in a loving gesture.
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Question: The killer arrives at the farm in an old rusty truck which Maria stows away in with the captive Alex. Then from the gas station she follows the truck in the murdered station attendant's car, and both vehicles end up at the scene of the final confrontation. Yet at the end we learn that Maria is actually the killer and has insanely hallucinated virtually the entire movie. Can anyone offer any explanation of where that big truck came from in the first place and what the truth is about which vehicles were really present at the end and how exactly Maria and Alex arrive at the scene of their final confrontation?
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Answer: It is impossible to know which vehicles were actually used, or even what really happened throughout the movie. The plot twist at the end of this film, while certainly surprising, was not very thoroughly planned out. It's almost as if the writer decided at the last minute to add it for no better reason than he couldn't think of a way to end the movie.
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