Davis, Emmet's vengeful mother, who blames the teenagers for what happened to her son. She takes Mandy and Marianne hostage and reveals she and Jen are working together to get revenge on Mandy. Jen reveals she knows Mandy isn't perfect and that manipulated Emmet into murdering the other teenagers the previous year, shocking Marianne.
Davis reveals she plans to avenge Emmet by murdering Mandy, while Jen plans to murder Marianne and make herself the only survivor, usurping Mandy's reputation. However, Jen is shot and killed by the wounded officer, just as she was about to murder Marianne. Mandy and Mrs. Davis proceed to fight for the officer's pistol, while Marianne attempts to make a run for the nearby police cruiser. During the scuffle, Mandy shoots Mrs. Davis in the head, murdering her.
Mandy pursues Marianne through the fields, desperate to keep her secret about the previous year hidden. Marianne reaches the cruiser and attempts to drive away, but Mandy throws a rock at the windshield, causing her to crash into a fence. A shaken Marianne exits the cruiser and is confronted by Mandy, who holds her at gunpoint, apologizing for having to murder her, as she was the only likeable one of her friends.
When Marianne questions why Mandy murdered the people she called her friends, Mandy reveals that she never liked them and that their sexual attraction only made her feel more powerful and violent.
Marianne tackles Mandy into a hole filled with the carcasses of dead cattle. A weakened Marianne attacks Mandy with a sharp bone, but Mandy strikes her with a large piece of wood. However, she knocks her towards where the gun had fallen. Marianne quickly unloads the revolver into Mandy, finally killing her.
She emerges from the hole covered in blood and muck, and limps over to the cruiser, where she calls for help on the police radio. The film ends as the camera pans up above the cruiser and into the sky.
Fanon Wiki Explore. Top Content. N Trilogy Piranha Plant M. Wiki Rules. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? History Talk 0. Member since March Excellent explanation Zipperha. What I feel everyone is missing here is that it is nearly impossible for good looking women to have true friends. In my life I have seen over and over again women that just want to be seen as people and not sexual objects.
These people don't treat Mandy as a person. She is not a friend to them, only a thing to be desired. This is why the "lesbian scene" is important. It shows that any act of kindness or friendship on Mandys part is only seen as an opening to make a move. I feel that Mandy has every intention of following through with the suicide pact until her only real friend Emmet betrays her by showing that he is exactly like all of the others.
Member since December They are some really good thoughts They've lead me onto thinking about Mandy's character. Although from the beginning Mandy portrayed modesty, toward the end I felt that she had become superficial just like the people she was killing off. Her relationship with Emmet may have started off as a romantic thing, both fueled by different types of passion. But the flare had faded for Mandy, and following her transformation over summer she believed she could do better than him.
Emmet's passion was for Mandy, Mandy's was to be notorious. She was sick of being in the background. She had devised a plan with Emmet, telling him that they would rid the world of the bullies and then commit suicide together. Meanwhile, the 'real plan' was to get Emmet to do all the dirty work. Then she would take the glory by killing him and making a name for herself as the massacre surviver. I think that the more Emmet killed for her, she more arrogant she got.
Because she realized that she could make people fall at her feet, people who would actually murder for her Oh, its all crazyness! I dont know, that just what I got from the film. Don't worry. Neither did I until the second viewing. Its said very quietly and you view the scene from a distance. I honestly think its not meant to be noticed until the second time round. I was shocked. I had to rewind it like 3 times to be sure.
And I am. She says "Come on Emmett" at about And "Hurry up" straight after that. The joys of repeat viewings. Finished with "But will she come? I highly doubt it. I think anyone who went from nobody to Goddess would probably milk it for all its worth.
All of the people seen as nobodies at my high school would have jumped at the chance to be popular at that point in time. No matter what they say or believe in retrospect. I kind of admire Mandy's strength to stick to her guns and go through with it rather than turning into the typical Prom Queen.
Not that we have proms here in Australia. Yeah I rewatched the scene and heard it, somewhat. It's there though. It all depends on badly Mandy Lane was treated by those people. I gurantee they used to treat her like total crap. We never see this but we can guess. Member since February After all it's clear that she's in on this mass execution from the get go His devotion to her, her exploitation of him just based on your interpretation of the film , and then her willingness to go back on the plan and chart a new path for herself, knowing that it would be impossible for him to do likewise Emmet did most of the killing, but his desire to end his life in the end suggested that he wasn't the brains of the operation He wasn't a psychopath That's why, in spite of how brutal many of the killings were, I don't consider Emmet as evil as Mandy.
Mandy doesn't let Garth survive because he's "the only decent male she knows" I believe she got off on how she could manipulate all the boys into doing what she wanted them to do, and that included manipulating Emmet into doing what he did for her. See my earlier post. She does in fact let Garth live because he's "the only decent male" she knows. But the key to that is understanding that Mandy has a very unique take on "decent". Garth won her over because like her, he is a killer and like her demonstrates a complete control over his emotions.
Garth was just as attracted to Mandy as all the other boys, and Mandy new it, but despite his lust, Garth never once acted inappropriately towards her- even when she made the first move during the bet and this is significant because contrived as it was, this was probably first time Mandy had ever hit on a guy.
She saw in Garth, perhaps for the first time in her life, someone she viewed as an equal. Someone worthy of her respect. And that's the reason she didn't kill him. Member since July This was my understanding of the ending. She had intentions to go through with the suicide up until 1-she realized Garth was not a douche like the other guys and started having a thing for him and 2-she realized Emmet was in love with her and went along with all the killings because of that.
She thought he was like her and when she found out he was just trying to impress her like the rest she killed him. Perhaps a minimalistic set up is a better way of putting it, I agree that the characterization was very well developed.
I didn't notice the lesbian implication in my viewing and so am also inclined to think it has been overanalysed. I could be wrong, I'd need repeated viewings. This isn't a very strong argument and the scenes with Mandy and Garth alone did seem poignant.
However,I didn't see enough evidence to make me think she had planned to go through with it. I definatley noticed the lesbian vibe going on with Chloe and Mandy in the bathroom scene. At first I wondered if I was the only one that was thinking this while watching the movie. However, when I came to this board I see that I wasn't the only one who thought something was up with the scene.
If a lot of people thought there was a lesbian vibe while watching the scene then I don't see how it is being over analyzed. It means that people noticed it. Here is my take on it. I felt like Chloe was coming on to Mandy more than Mandy was to Chloe, however I didn't see Mandy backing off and if they hadn't of got interupted what would of happened?
There was the whole sexual tension and then Chloe sticking her finger in Mandy's mouth, she didn't have to do that to give her the pill. Maybe, the movie's name should of been Everybody loves Mandy Lane. The argument could be made that Mandy didn't really back off when the black guy wanted to hold her hand and kiss her when they were walking either.
So, maybe she was just seeing who would make a pass at her and then make sure they were killed after they did? I don't know! Or, the whole lesbian scene could of been Mandy realizing that Chloe was just a pathetic insecure girl and all the time maybe, Mandy and Emmette had thought she was just superficial and there was no depth to her.
Mandy may of realized that there was more to Chloe than met the eye? There are so many questions that were not answered in this movie. Like why did they kill everyone? Was it because the popular kids used to be mean to them until Mandy turned into a knockout? Was it because of how all the kids treated Emmette after he conviced the guy to jump off the roof?
I don't buy that because why would Mandy care how they treated Emmette? I mean she evidently didn't care too much for him or she wouldn't of killed him too. Or was it because they were just 2 psycho's, Emmette doing anything Mandy asked and Mandy just being a psycho? Did Mandy's parents death's affect her more than they showed? I don't know but there is a lot of theory's Another question, Why did Mandy let Garth live?
Was it because he was her alibi? Was it because he was more mature than the highschool kids? Or was it because she really did have a crush on him? I liked the movie, but I didn't like all the unanswered questions. I didn't like that the characters had no back story, Especially Mandy. All we knew about her was that her parents died, her aunt raised her and she had a cousin who was older than her.
She hung out with a nerdy guy that obsessed over her, and she had turned into a raving beauty over the summer. All the guys wanted to get her and all the girls wanted to be her. Although, it kind of looked as if atleast one of the girls wanted to get with her too. Besides, that there is no backstory as to what made her want to kill everyone, even her so called best friend. If she was just some crazy person then why let Garth live? I could sit here and try to analyze this movie to death and still have no better conclusions.
If there is a sequel to this, I hope than answer some questions that were left unanswered in this movie.
I know a lot of people think that once you start giving a killer a backstory it makes them less creepy, but I don't think so, I want to know what caused the killer to be a killer, that way I can get inside the killer's head a little more.
Although, I do understand what some have said, that if the motive was to get even with those that had done her and Emmette wrong then her job was done and there shouldn't be a sequel. However, I just don't buy that explanation Usually once someone starts killing they keep on killing, I doubt that Mandy never kills again and her and Garth live happily ever after or that she goes and introduces Garth to her cousin Jen. Mandy seemed to want Garth for herself anyway, she wouldn't just give him to her cousin.
Okay now I'm babbling so I will stop. My point wasn't that the moment between Mandy and Chloe didn't exist but that it wasn't relevant to Mandy's motives. Therefore i think the moment is being overanalysed because i don't think it was significant to the plot. What made is great for me was that I was really excited to see this film all week leading up to it, and on the day I was going to see it a girl at work was flicking through a newspaper and found an ad for it, which got me going on about it again.
She asked me what it was about and I explained the premise of all the boys wanting to get in her pants and someone starts killing off the competition. Being a lesbian herself, this girl jokes "Ah, maybe the twist is that she's actually gay so they never had a chance in the first place!
Actually, I may interpret it as Mandy almost getting off on Chloe's vulnerability. At that moment, Mandy knew she had Chloe wrapped. Chloe genuinely trusted her and revealed her insecurity; she was at Mandy's mercy which is just what Mandy needed from her to pull a stunt like the one she pulls at the end when she urges Chloe to run into her open arms So maybe Chloe sucking her finger just gave Mandy validation of her power and maybe that validation turned her on slightly lol Veronica why are you pulling my dick?
Member since August I watched the film last night and did have a few questions which apart from one has been answered by reading everyone's opinons on the film i do believe that mandy and emmet were nerds etc before the summer and that the gang had bullied them etc hence they built up a hatred for them which would have provoked the plan. I also believe that mandy did have a hatred for men as from her experience, with no father figure to look up to, seemed to be after only one thing, and although emmet and mandy were 'best friends' it probably didnt incur to mandy that emmet was in love with her and that his way of 'worming himself in her good books' by doing all the killings was a way of trying to get her to love him so they could be together.
But the characters are fleshed out more than in the traditional slasher film. They are far from simple fodder for killing. In close quarters, and with a few drinks in their system, the friends open up and their emotional insecurities rise to the surface. Behind every cruel joke is a suppressed insecurity. A few scenes later we see Chloe removing her padded bra. When comparing herself to the uncommonly beautiful Lane in a delicious bathroom scene, Chloe feels herself second best for perhaps the first time.
Just as the sensual bathroom scene heats up, teasing the male and indeed lesbian viewer with the anticipation of a little lesbian liaison, we can practically hear the collective sigh of disappointment when the romantic mood is broken by the appearance of impatient Red and Bird at the bathroom door.
Lane with Chloe in the bathroom scene. With the revelation coming so soon, the savvy viewer may suspect that director Jonathan Levine and writer Jacob Forman have another trick up their sleeve. Garth is then shot from a distance, but not fatally.
While Mandy stays behind to help Garth, Chloe and Red attempt to escape into the open space of the nearby desert. Red is shot dead from afar, sending Chloe into a panicked run to elude Emmet in his oncoming truck. While holding a knife in her hand the same knife Emmet used to kill Bird , Levine frames Mandy in the extreme foreground, with Chloe in the far background running toward the camera, with Emmet in pursuit. Emmet now appears standing behind them.
The camera encircles them, adding to the sense of moral confusion. The injured Garth intervenes long enough to allow Mandy to run for safety, but is soon overcome by Emmet, who then gives chase to Mandy.
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