2/22/25: ginger snaps (9/10, ending revision)

So, I watched Ginger Snaps for the first time today and went into this movie completely blind, and I absolutely loved it.

As someone with two younger sisters and one older sister, the dynamic between Bridgette and Ginger was something I could relate to on both ends, and seeing the two's relationship change throughout the course of the film up to the climax was heartbreaking.

The acting was spectacular and so realistic especially when it came to the main family unit, and the use of Lycanthropy to represent the change girls go through during puberty was just genius.

I think my only issue with the film is, I just wish the mother was more involved than she was, at least near the very end. I get why they made her and the father so absent in the film narratively, but at the same time the mother was being characterized as someone who does truly care for and want to be there for her daughters, and I was really glad to see her stepping up near the end, only for her to get lost at that damn party!

and as much as I love the ending, I think a better one could've been like this;

Bridgette and Ginger are both physically exhausted from fighting in their bedroom, Ginger is starting to slowly transform. their mother returns to the house after losing them at the party, assuming the girls would go back home if they were in danger. the mother finds the girls and the syringe with the cure, and she has to choose which of her daughters to save. She ends up saving Bridgette because Ginger is far too gone, and the movie ends with the mother holding Bridgette as they cry over Ginger's body.

What do you think?