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I like you're reading here a lot. A lot of people have derided the film's ending while celebrating the rest of the goodness. For me though, Darabont made a very bold choice, and I would much prefer that filmmakers make bold choices (and be supported by their studio counterparts) then have everyone striving to try to make the largest possible number of audience members happy.

Personally, I more or less fell into the original camp that you outlined that viewed the final twist as a rebuke to the party's seemingly fast loss of hope. I wouldn't go so far as to call the group nihilistic, because Darabont never went so far as to say they didn't believe in anything, but they did allow their hope to evaporate quite quickly, and in that final shot David pays handsomely for having doubted. I guess in some ways that actually mirrors what you lay out above, in that the hope they lost was hope in the resiliency of man. Having walked through the fires they walked through (particularly with their interactions with the soldiers), it's not all that shocking that they made the choice they did.

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Agree with you 100% here, Eric. I loved this film, and even went as far as to call it one of the finest indie horror features I've seen in years when discussing it on the Bloody Good Horror podcast this past weekend. The worst part, is that when excellent films like The Signal don't succeed, studios get skittish about picking up these types of films, and it gets harder for the next horror indie to find distribution.

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I approve of those who disapprove, but myself, approve.

Because seeing Ray Romano on the couch reminds me that there was a time before Everybody Loves Raymond when I actually loved Raymond.

Home

Wii please

Because I wasn't old enough to watch this show on TV, and I feel like there's an empty place in my soul because of that.

The best KITH sketches are when they're doing the cops riff. Reno obviously owes a huge debt of gratitude there.

No guns, then 'Refumee. Hands down.

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