The Ending of High Tension

by April
(Oklahoma)

I still don't get High Tension.

If the girl was really killing people all along, who was the person in the beginning, sitting in the truck with the decapitated head? How did the truck and the yellow car get to the woods at the end?

If someone can take a "stab" at an explanation I would be most appreciative.

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Aug 26, 2011
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Not as obscure as some think
by: shadowfever

I don't assume that because a film is French, Asian or German that it is automatically a superior film. Nor do I assume that it is automatically self consciously obscure tripe. I prefer to watch it and make my own decision.

In this case it isn't obscure at all, it is like a great, teasing, classical page turner with a slasher element to it.

The "head job" has no true relevance to the actual story. Its purpose is to introduce us, not only to the madness we are about to witness, but also to give us a glimpse of a character who, though imaginary, plays a huge part in the movie.

The ending ties it together when we see the killer, who we know is dead, returning when Alexia rejects Marie. He then becomes Marie again when Alexia screams that she loves her.

Most of the movie is the version that Marie relates. The scenes of the policemen in the store are actual events as they discover they discover the truth. The chase at the end where the killer returns and then becomes Marie is the false reality that Marie created, showing both of her personalities. And the very end, with Marie in her padded cell and Alexia looking on, is again a return to reality.

Jan 27, 2011
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Ending
by: Gusta

Even if you explain away everything about the killer as Marie's imagination, where did Alex get the knife? In the movie, Marie gives it to her in the back of the van for protection before she gets out at the gas station. Are we to conclude then that Maire pulls into the gas station, starts pumping gas, opens the back of the van and gives the girl a knife, then goes inside? Makes no sense.

Dec 15, 2008
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If the man and the truck wasn't real...
by: Dan

...then how did they get to the gas station and take the clerk's car? Also, what vehicle was Alex bound up in if the clerk's car was also totaled?

Feb 07, 2008
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Rewatch
by: April

I'll definitely make sure I get the uncut version and watch it again. I got my copy the first time through Netflix and I'm not sure which version it was.

Feb 07, 2008
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Where can I find that?
by: Ginger Snaps

I've heard a lot about that movie but I can never ever find a copy. Do you any stores or websites I can get the VHS or DVD from? By the way, 'killer' pun lol. Tanks.,btw "Killer" pun,lo. Thanks.

-Ginge

Feb 06, 2008
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You are thinking too much
by: The Zombie Master

Watch High Tension (2005) again and keep these things in mind:

Marie is telling her side of the story. She is the central character and her alter ego is the man in the truck. Everything that has to do with the man in the truck is Marie's imagination. Marie is messed up in the head and is trying to justify what has happened by injecting a second character. Every part of the movie that is taking place with the man has never taken place because it was all done by Marie to begin with and she is placing a second person where one never existed. With that in mind watch High Tension again (the uncut version please) and this time you be watching it not as a movie about a male serial killer but as a movie about a female killer with multiple personalities.

It is one of my favorites (and it is French, go figure).

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