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Why did Maren eat Lee? ›

Sully, who is revealed to be Maren's grandfather, attacks Maren and is planning on killing and eating her, but Lee intervenes, only to be mortally wounded in the process. As an act of love and devotion, and to please Lee, Maren gives in and eats him, "bones and all", a rite of passage for cannibals like her.

Throughout the novel, Maren consumes several boys and young men who express interest in her, suggesting that her cannibalism is closely tied to her own romantic and sexual desires, even though it also prevents her from intimacy with others.

On her own, she is able to discover the truth about Sully and defend herself against him, drive a car across the country, survive for weeks on an abandoned farm, reunite with Lee, and, ultimately, start a new life without him. The ending of the novel marks significant personal changes for Maren.

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Maren's father, Frank (André Holland) is her Black parent. He's also not an “eater.” Parenting her, we learn, has been a matter of attempting to suppress, contain, and control her appetites while shouldering the fiscal, social, legal, and spiritual consequences when that endeavor inevitably fails.

In the book, Maren eats Lee against his will. In the movie, Lee is hurt when he and Maren kill Sully. Maren puts him out of his misery by eating him, at Lee's request. It's tough to say if the Bones And All ending is a satisfying horror movie ending.

Through Guadagnino's attentive work, cannibalism becomes a metaphor for closeted queerness: a way of dramatizing both the consummate longing and consonant shame of wanting something you shouldn't.

Travis has in fact been turned down by several eaters, and he begs a horrified Maren to eat him. Travis is one of the most complex and ambiguous characters in the novel. Though he treats Maren with kindness, she is disgusted by his request to be eaten and desires to get away from him as quickly as possible.

There is no true "hidden meaning" at play in Bones and All, it's simply a story about otherness. The beauty of the movie is that cannibalism can be seen as a placeholder for so many things, especially given the '80s setting.

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She was simply born this way, drawn to eat those who crave her, chomping them up, bones and all, until their bodies become a part of her own. This thing Maren does is unacceptable, and yet, for her at least, it is always inescapable.

Before meeting Lee, Maren encounters Sully, whose attraction to Maren is confirmed at the end of the movie. However, Maren never reciprocates the feelings that Sully has for her. Instead, she is extremely cautious around him.

Sully therefore represents a more ethical mode of cannibalism, as he does not kill people and has no “victims,” but rather, only eats those who have already died of natural causes. The first person he ever consumed, he claims, was his own deceased grandfather.