Both men (and all the other males in the town) had been symbolically stripped ("undressed") of their masculinity or phallic-strength mounted on their hips.The film's tagline expressed this heme:"There is a miracle in being young...and a fear."One poster also described the reality of a 'first love' when feelings hat are new and somewhat frightening are heightened by a constricting society:Whether you live in a small town the way they do, or in a city, maybe this is happening to you right now.Attempting to stop both Rick and Alex, Colonel Choi and General Yang were presumably killed by a bomb dropped onto them by Jonathan from the last remaining airplane..Come with me my princess Anck-su-namun." One of the Arab diggers was consumed by the scarabs - all that was left was a devoured skeletal shape.