The bullet also broke the window behind Gruber.In the exciting and climactic confrontation, the injured Gruber stumbled backwards and crashed through a pane of glass while holding onto Holly"s arm and metal Rolex watchband, nearly dragging her with him.The 96-minute film was considered ground-breaking for its explicit violence, rawness, cannibalism, and somber ending.The film ends on a bittersweet, unhappy note when the couple realizes that their chaste romance is over.Plot SynopsisFilm"s Opening Sequence: Sows Taken to Market, and a Young Orphaned Runty Piglet:The film"s opening was a harrowing voice-over account (by off-screen melodious Narrator Roscoe Lee Browne) at a gigantic Australian hog farm where pigs were being loaded up into a truck to be taken away to market ("pig paradise"):"This is a tale about an unprejudiced heart, and how it changed our valley forever.