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结尾森林中站立起的5头熊给观众留下了许多遐想的空间。片中的熊到底有什么隐喻？目前看到的最普遍的解读是：「熊才是原住民」。在充满民族矛盾和排外情绪的罗马尼亚村庄里，熊的出现是对人类这种狭隘争论的讽刺，毕竟熊才是这篇土地上早于人类的原住民。这是很多豆瓣网友的解读。在波米的《反派影评》节目中也是这么解读的。

但这是否是导演克里斯蒂安·蒙吉的本意呢？

在一篇Elissa Suh的访谈文章中，导演谈到了他想在结局中表达的一些想法：

ES: There's a bit of surrealism to the ending of the film. Without giving too much away, can you tell us a little about what you want the viewers to take away from the final scenes?

CM: With cinema, the things that you want people to get out of your film can't and shouldn't be verbalized precisely in just one single way. So if I want people to take something from the ending, I want them to understand that there's a character at the end who more or less has to choose between two different kinds of worlds, one of which is darker, corresponding to our subconscious, where things might pop up. They might be human, they might be animals, they might be instincts, or creatures coming from his imagination, or just an impersonation of his anxiety. I don't know what they are, but they are brutal and tempting him, luring him to go over there.

此外，在伊桑霍克与导演的视频访谈中，也提到了熊的意象的含义。这两次访谈中，导演蒙吉的表达是比较统一的。从中可以揣测导演在结局中所想表达的可能与众多网友的解读并不相同。以下是看了这两次访谈后的个人理解：

电影想要展现人们内心两股力量的斗争。一种是人类社会的文明与理性，另一种是人类作为动物的潜意识的本能与恐惧（例如排外的民族情绪）。人类活动的村镇社区和围绕社区的熊出没的森林正是代表了这对冲突，而男主（也包括我们每个人）都需要在两者之间做出选择。森林中的熊所隐喻的是人类动物本能的一面，而并不是什么「原住民」的讽刺。