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Originally posted by Rob Kamphausen:
well... just in case...

SPOILERS BELOW HEEYAH!

i thought the ending was pretty spot on.

sure, everyone was waiting to find the ravaged slaughter and bloody carcasses, but... that didnt fit the character. sy (williams) wasnt a murderous psychopath -- he was a regular psychopath.

he wasn't deviant or perverted in the natural respects of those words. he wouldn't even allow his art to be ruined by taking photographs of the sexual acts.

all he wanted in the world was normalcy: a perfect, balanced family, and every day life that others take for granted. the most "savage" thing he could comprehend was to ruin that perfection -- to destroy a family by exposing an affair.
Yeah, I thought he was gonna go on a murderous rampage, but I didn't like that option either, because (as you say) it would have been out of character. What I would have found more interesting would be the character turning into a murderous psychopath. He should have been taken to a limit beyond the one he was taken on the movie.