Headscratchers / Tusk (2014)

• The ending. So, Wallace's girlfriend and best friend, upon finding the mentally shattered Wallace, decide that the best legitimate solution is to put him in a wildlife sanctuary to live out the rest of his days as a walrus?! As opposed to, say, taking him to a legitimate medical authorities for help!?
  • Rule of Creepy =/= Rule of Funny =/= Rule of Drama =/= Rule of Symbolism?
  • I imagine it was his own decision. Like, it's a bonkers movie, but he's a walrus now. He's got two options: be released from the skin suit and go through life as a fully disabled man, without hands or feet or a sound mind, watching his girl and his best friend move on as he tries to live a human life fully dependent on someone's full-time care? Become exactly the kind of wretched, broken thing he used to ridicule for a living? Better to be a walrus.
  • The epilogue takes place a year later, so maybe in that time they tried to go a more humane route and failed: He's a pretty much unheard of medical case, so it's possible they tried to seek medical help only to be told there was nothing that could be done for him other than euthanasia
    • Uh, no. Medical science is pretty advanced, and it's extremely unlikely that some skilled surgeon would be unable to undo the work of a 70+ year old lunatic's amateur surgery. They could even count it as experimental since it's such a unique case and it wouldn't hurt their stats. Also, Wallace was in Howe's captivity for what? A week? A month? There's no psychologist who is even willing to try and deprogram him? And all of this is ignoring that Wallace cannot live as a walrus. He can't eat raw fish, he can't stay warm in icy water, he doesn't have the lung capacity to stay under water. The entire ending makes precisely no sense.
    • The ending makes no sense, but a weirdo mutilating a guy and stuffing him into a walrus-shaped meatsuit, in such a way that not only does he survive the amateur surgery in a filthy operating theater, but manages to not die of internal toxicity due to a woefully unsanitary environment and a total lack of functioning walrus bowels, is totally okay? That suit is a horrible combination of a onesie and a diaper, both made of human leather and designed to be completely sealed. If you're really gonna split hairs about it, Wallace probably should have died during the leg amputation because his completely untreated stumps would have left him bleeding out in seconds.
    • Given the Fate Worse than Death situation Wallace faced a Mercy Kill would have been a more dignified method for him.
    • A Mercy Kill is against medical ethics in most countries and requires consent where it is legal, for reasons. However, if a patient objects to a procedure, you generally have to stop if it's at all possible—even if it is undoing his transformation into a walrus, no means no. This does raise a lot of other questions, though...
    • Most notable is the fact that Wallace is not in a sound mental state to make decisions about his own care and health. It’s entirely possible that the best friend and girlfriend COULD have acted and got Wallace the care he needed, or at the very least got power of attorney to do so.