A lot of people were confused by the ending to the film Buried. To understand the ending, you need to know who Mark White was. Mark White was a man who was supposedly kidnapped and then saved 3 weeks before Ryan Reynolds' character, Paul Conroy, was taken hostage and buried. But at the end of the film Brenner (the guy on the phone) tells Paul they found Mark buried in a coffin. So why did he lie to him? The obvious answer is that he wanted to console Paul and give him hope. The hostage Mark White had been buried the whole time, but he didn't want to tell Paul Conroy that. The truth is that the US State Department has a low success rate of rescuing hostages, so they wanted to give him false hope to keep him calm.
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| Ryan Reynolds as Paul Conroy |
PAUL
How many others have there been?
DAN
Since I got here? Hundreds.
Journalists, contractors,
soldiers...hundreds have been
taken. It’s one of the only
functioning businesses out here.
PAUL
How many have you rescued?
Dan is reluctant to answer the question.
PAUL
How many?
DAN
Not many.
PAUL
Tell me their names.
DAN
Who?
PAUL
Any of them. Make me know they
really do matter to you.
DAN
Mark White.
He couldn't name anyone they rescued because they had all died, so he named the most recent man who was kidnapped. Paul Conroy was just another name to them.
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