Movie endings are powerful things.
If all else fails, maybe we can just assume the various characters were dead the whole time?
Right, glad that’s been cleared up.
When their relationship is discovered, she’s blinded in retaliation by the Loners.
The Lobstercuts to black before we find out whether he does it, however.
What really happens at the end of Birdman?
Or in a darker reading, he simply leapt to his death.
Thus,Birdmanends the same way it begins: by challenging our perception of reality.
Does the ending of Inception really matter to the story?
The Wrestler ends before we see what happens to Randy
Certain movies end ambiguously on purpose.
Was American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman really a killer?
American Psychoboasts one of the greatest examples of an unreliable narrator in the history of cinema.
However, asFilm School Rejectspointed out, the denouement isn’t as vague as it initially appears.
The other killings did occur, though, because Bateman simply took out more accessible victims.
But that doesn’t explain how Sara (Emily Blunt) knows old Joe in the first place.
As for Sara remembering him, Johnson chalks that up to “semantics.”
Who was the Thing?
John Carpenter’s beloved sci-fi horrorThe Thingfeatures one of the most hotly contested endings ever.
However, this was abandoned by the end of the film to leave it undetermined.
By the end, Peter’s body is under the control of both Charlie and Paimon.
Likewise, the three heads required by Paimon are those of the mother, grandmother, and granddaughter.
While she’s reading it, the world around her begins to mirror the darkness on the page.
Susan, against her better judgement, becomes engrossed in her ex’s work.
“For Ford, Tony seems to represent integrity,“Vulturenoted, while Susan is superficiality personified.
Regardless, Batman is done fighting crime and is at peace one way or another.
He might even become Robin or Nightwing.
