She's no longer caring for her patient Chloe Penelope Cruz , but lives side-by-side with her. Miranda slowly begins to make sense of what is happening to her and realizes her husband may not be the man she thought he was. On paper, Gothika seems like it should have worked, but there was just something that didn't click. Namely, the story was completely adrift, losing the audience almost immediately.
That's something that even the best cast cannot save. The bottom line of the supernatural horror movie is interesting. A successful psychiatrist ends up locked in her own mental hospital with no memory of the crime she allegedly committed is an enticing plot. However, that simple baseline was spun too far out of control. Supernatural elements were piled on top of the basic premise, causing the story to meander in a number of different directions.
The Sheriff tries to shoot her but ends up causing a gas leak. His death is incredibly symbolic. This causes a fire to erupt from the leaking gas and engulf him like the souls in purgatory before Miranda shoots him in the head. Pete arrives right at that moment, after figuring out himself that the Sheriff was the second killer. Ashamed of not believing her all along, he apologizes to Miranda.
The closing scene takes place about a year after the events of the climax. Both Miranda and Chloe are out of the penitentiary and seem to be doing well. While Chloe admits that she still gets bad dreams, Miranda asserts that she has put it all behind her. And yet, the moment the psychiatrist is alone, she sees the ghost of a missing boy. As Chloe, who can also see the ghosts, correctly puts it: once the doors are opened, they cannot be closed. Like Rachel, the boy, Tim, is a victim of violence.
Evidently, Miranda can see the ghosts whose deaths have been abnormal and filled with suffering. Gothika Ending, Explained Tamal Kundu. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reddit Email. After Miranda is admitted to the hospital as a patient, however, she actually hears the man raping Chloe and sees a tattoo of the Anima Sola on his chest. Anima Sola aka "Lonely Soul" is a medieval image depicting a soul, often a female, suffering in the flames of purgatory.
Her arms, on which hang broken chains, are lifted towards heaven, indicating that her suffering is over and she is about to rise to heaven. It is most prevalent in Catholic cultures. Miranda begins to put things together and realizes that the man who has been raping women at the prison is somehow connected to the murders at Willow Creek and that the Anima Sola tattoo is somehow involved.
While being held in jail, she asks to speak with Sheriff Ryan John Carroll Lynch and bounces her ideas off him. When she describes a psychological profile of the killer, she realizes that she is actually profiling Ryan.
He realizes it, too, and attacks her, but she manages to get away. Ryan goes after her with a rifle, revealing the Anima Sola tattoo on his chest and admitting that he and Doug have been killing young girls since Doug was 15 years old.
Suddenly, the ghost of Rachel Parsons Kathleen Mackey appears in front of him, and he tries to shoot her, but Rachel sends a stream of fire to engulf him as Miranda puts a bullet through his brain. A year later, Miranda and Chloe are seen walking down the street together, talking about how, once you open the door to the supernatural, you can never close it.
Miranda claims that she has done just that. They make their goodbyes and thank each other, Chloe thanking Miranda for helping her and Miranda thanking Chloe for teaching her how to listen. As Chloe drives away in a taxi, Miranda notices a young boy standing in the middle of the road, a firetruck speeding towards him. Miranda reaches out to the boy, but the truck passes right through him.
The final shot is of a Missing Child poster with the boy's picture on it. Numerous definitions have been created by fans of the movie, e. Most likely, gothika is merely an affectatious spelling of gothica and is similar to other "-ca" words such as "galactica" things pertaining to the galaxy or "erotica" things pertaining to erotic media.
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