SPOILER: READ THIS ONLY IF YOU HAVE SEEN THE FILM! "Samaritan Girl" is a brilliant and haunting film, but the double ending may be difficult for many Western non-Buddhist minds to understand. This is how I saw the ending and the motivations leading up to it: The father is the prostitute-killer, that is why he becomes psychotic when he discovers his daughter is one. He plans the trip to the wife/mother's grave, intending to kill the daughter and then turn himself in. This is exactly what he does. The second ending, when the girl wakes up again and the father has (impossibly) painted hundreds of stones yellow so she can practice driving the car, is in reality her death-dream, her transition into the bardo, and chasing her father after he has been picked up by the police is part of her letting-go.
Review of Samaritan Girl
