The ending of the film is often a mystery to the audience, and it will cause a lot of controversy because of these endings. We may not understand what the last scene the director shot means, or we may misunderstand the creator's ideas, especially when they use metaphors and allegories. Our final impression of the film is directly related to how we understand the final scene.
Advent
Although Dennis Villeneuve's film story is still ongoing, it gives the audience a lot of hints, but the main idea is not described until the end. This kind of sci-fi drama consists entirely of closed circles, in other words, the story ends where it begins and begins where it ends.
Viewers may think that the film begins with the past of the protagonist, linguist Louise Banks, but eventually we realize that these episodes come from her future. After Amy Adams' character learns non-linear alien language, time becomes a circle for her.
The flashbacks we see at the beginning of the movie about her dead daughter and divorce from her husband haven't happened to her yet. Louise knew her future, and although she knew she would lose her children and her lover, she decided not to make any changes.
This is the main idea of the film: time is not a straight line. If you look at time like an alien, it looks completely different. Everyone decides their own destiny.
Mother! 》
"They were happy. They know everything, just in different ways. The character played by Javier Baden spoke about the reader's reaction to his book. The same goes for people who have seen this movie. After the release of Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller, the Internet was filled with different views of the events and different interpretations of the film's ending.
Almost all of the director's films are full of symbolism, Mother! " is no exception. At the heart of the story is human violence against nature, and the film itself is a biblical fable.
In an interview with Variety magazine, Darren Aronofsky explained that Javier Baden played God in the film, Jennifer Lawrence was nature, and the house was earth. Nature is tormented and exploited. And the cataclysm at the end of the film (when the house burns down) is the result of our violence against the planet.
Birdman
Alessandro Iñárritu's film, which tells the story of an actor who has lost his mind, is difficult to understand. In the final scene, we see Reagan's daughter walk into an empty hospital room and look at an open window with talking and sirens coming from outside.
Emma Stone's character bows her head, slowly raises her head, and smiles. Some viewers must have thought it was a happy ending, while also suggesting that Reggan could actually fly. But it is more likely that the protagonist actually committed suicide and his daughter simply hallucinated.
Sam loses touch with the real world and plunges headlong into the fantasy world where her father is still alive. The relationship between Reagan and his daughter is key to understanding the film.
Batman: The Dark Knight Rises
At the end of the film, Bruce Wayne tries to save Gotham from a nuclear explosion. He loaded the bomb into the plane, flew quickly to the ocean, and exploded there. The city was saved, and grateful residents mourned their hero and erected a monument to Batman. Alfred went to Venice, where he met Bruce, who was very fit, and Sat at a table with Selina (Catwoman).
Many viewers thought it was Alfred's dream. But you may recall that in Batman's lab, the characters said the plane was autonomous. Most likely, Bruce dropped the bomb on a plane as far away from the city as possible, then faked his own death.
Also, in that scene in Venice, you can see a necklace on Selina's body, which was Wayne's mother. She wants to steal it at the beginning of the movie. Alfred didn't know about it, so it couldn't have been a dream he had.
Interstellar Exploration
When Roy embarks on a mission to find a missing spaceship, he also intends to end the Lima project and save his father. When they are finally reunited, the young McBride realizes that his father is not the hero he considers.
Clifford fled into the abyss of space because he knew there was nothing left for him. The most emblematic scene occurs when the rope connecting father and son is broken.
When Roy returns home, he finally understands and accepts his place in the universe. He was freed from emotional and physical loneliness, he no longer had the burden of finding his father, and he was ready to be reunited with his ex-wife. Interstellar Exploration is a film about self-knowledge and important changes in the human soul.
"Blindfold Your Eyes"
When the protagonist finally arrives at the shelter with his two children, he discovers that it turns out to be a school for the blind. This is very symbolic. It was This blind belief in Mallory that allowed her to walk through the rapids completely blindfolded. The film makes you think about what weaknesses are and what strengths are. In the real world, blindness is a limitation, but in the movie, it's a protection against monsters.
Mallory can only save her children if she opens her heart to love. In the final scene, the protagonist names her son and daughter and then releases the bird, who destroys the wall she had previously built for herself. The epilogue is a metaphor for hope and faith that everything will be fine, and the bird box is Mallory's cage that keeps her feelings inside.
The Perfect Stranger
In Paul Gnoveser's play, a group of friends get together for dinner, enjoy a full moon eclipse, and everyone has a great time. When they started talking about cell phones, one of them suggested they play a game: put all their phones on the table, answer all the calls, and read all the text messages aloud.
In this deceptively simple but fun game, friends realize that they know nothing about each other. This is the main point of the film: all of us, like the moon, have two sides: the bright side and the side that no one sees.
But the ending of the movie confuses many people. The lead actors laughed and left the house holding hands as if nothing had happened. If they don't play the game, the night will end like this.
No disappointment, no resentment, no shame. All the problems are on the dark side of the moon. You have the right to decide which is better – the truth of suffering or the happiness of ignorance.
Black Swan
At the end of the film, Nina (Natalie Portman) falls down in the first act of the performance and leaves crying to change clothes for the second act. In the dressing room, she sees Lily (Mila Koones) ready to take her place on stage. The girls begin to fight, and Nina pierces her opponent with a piece of glass and kills her. Then she hid her body in the bathroom and completed the second act.
Later, in the locker room, Lily, who was completely alive, visited Nina and told her she was doing a good job. Natalie Portman's character realizes she's been fighting herself and has a bleeding wound in her abdomen. At the end of act three, Nina falls into the hands of the director, bleeding to death, and we realize that dancers will hurt themselves in order to be perfect.