Movies with no end often disappoint viewers because they spend two hours telling a story with no real ending. But if handled properly, the ambiguous ending can spark all sorts of discussions on the way home.
The Coen brothers are known for their ambiguous endings, such as mill, a serious person, barton funkand most of the debris buster scruggs song.Their most famous unspecified ending is arguably the best picture award winning neo-western masterpiece Grandfatherand finally Sheriff Bell feels as lost and confused as the audience.
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No Country For The Aged (2007)
Great adaptation of the Coen brothers from the work of Cormac McCarthy Grandfather It’s a tense cat and mouse thriller. Josh Brolin plays Llewelyn Moss, a hunter who stumbles across a briefcase full of drug money; Javier Bardem plays a sadistic killer named Anton Chigurh, who is sent to get drugs.
In the end, Moss is killed offscreen — not by the killer who hunts him down throughout the film, but by some random criminal.
Founding (2010)
Fans Discussed Christopher Nolan’s Last Moments Start more than ten years. Most of the discussion revolves around whether or not Cobb is in Dreamworld, but that doesn’t really matter.
The important thing is that Cobb walked away while the top was still spinning. He didn’t care if it was a dream or not. After everything Fisher had in mind, he just wanted to spend time with his kids, even if they were just a subconscious reproduction of his kids.
driving (2011)
Check out Nicolas Winding Refn’s New Black Pearl driveRyan Gosling’s nameless getaway driver character accidentally gets involved in a fateful robbery and becomes the target of a ruthless crime syndicate.
While Ron Perlman’s gang boss character meets a gruesome end on the beach, the film’s final moments make the ending of the story ambiguous.
2001: Space Adventures (1968)
Stanley Kubrick’s Original Screenplay for the Sci-Fi Epic 2001: Space Adventure It turns out that satellites orbiting the Earth are nuclear weapons. Starchild will detonate the weapon, destroying all life on Earth.
But the director changed his mind because he didn’t want to make two films in a row that ended in the destruction of Earth by nuclear weapons (according to his 1964 masterpiece of political satire). Dr. Strangelove). Instead, he made it ambiguous, and it became one of the most iconic ambiguous endings in cinematic history. Each viewer can interpret the ending in their own way.
French drug ring (1971)
Gene Hackman Starring in William Friedkin’s Classic Crime Thriller French connection Play as tough cop Popeye Doyle as he relentlessly hunts down French drug smuggler Alain Chanier on the streets of New York City.
In the film’s hazy final moments, Doyle kicks Chanier off the screen and hears a gunshot. According to the title tag, Chanier was never discovered.
That (1982)
An alien threat has invaded John Carpenter’s Arctic research outpost problem Can take on any form, including an exact imitation of any scientist working at the facility.
By the end of the movie, it’s unclear if they’ll be able to defeat the Beast, or if they’re all really themselves and one of them isn’t an alien in disguise.
Drunk Country Song (2013)
Another attempt by the Coen brothers, inside lewin davis Not much of a plot. It’s like a series of episodes in a folk singer’s life as he travels through 1960s America, jumping from one gig to another. Oscar Isaac’s incredible performance is the basis for the entire film.
In the final act, Bob Dylan steps onto the stage under the gas lights, destined to stardom that Levine missed while Levine continues to live his life with the flow.
Chinese Zodiac (2007)
In this case, the film’s inability to provide an ending can be blamed on real life’s failure to provide an ending. david fincher can’t finish chinese zodiac The identity of the killer has been revealed, as the Zodiac has never been caught or identified.
It’s fitting for Fincher to take on an obscure true-crime story, as his career has proven him to be a master of ambiguous endings: se7en, boxing club, lost lover.
Shine (1980)
Few films are interpreted quite differently than Stanley Kubrick’s shine. Its on-screen horror is seen as a metaphor for alcoholism, child abuse, mind control by the CIA and the Holocaust, and the admission that the moon landing was a fake.
Wendy and Danny eventually manage to escape the murderous ax-wielding patriarch, but the final shot is so vague that it’s unclear exactly what’s going on in Overlook.
Rashomon (1950)
Masterpiece of Akira Kurosawa Rashomon It revolves around the murder of a samurai and the sexual assault of his wife. The bandit in charge, the samurai’s wife, the samurai himself speaking from the grave through a medium, and the woodcutter who witnessed the event all give conflicting accounts of the same story.
While all four try to express their best selves through false versions of the story, Kurosawa argues that truth is subjective. There is no “right” answer. Rashomon – it’s explainable.