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Added 2023-10-05 00:59:01 +0000 UTCWhat's an ending to a film that never leaves you and why?
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I'll say the very first Saw movie. I did not ecspect a sequel or series after the resolving finish. The villian arouse after after the protagonist cut his foot off (really messed up) and he electrocuted the next victim in defense of a deserved murder attempt! The endings to the sequels don't have impact like the shocking surprise of the first movie. Want to play a game?! Lol 😆
davis376 .
2024-08-21 17:30:25 +0000 UTCI'm not gonna lie, there are multiple songs that played in that film I can never think of the same way again. Genuinely some incredible use of music.
vince2k
2023-10-09 01:31:26 +0000 UTCThe Hurt Locker. Love something outwardly celebratory that's tinged with melancholy. The impurity of desire: finding meaning in the superficial rather than something that should actually be meaningful. Love when a movie about a piece of shit ends with them smiling, as if to say they'd do it all again. Scorsese does it a lot, but probably most impactful for me is the homestretch of Hurt Locker. He can't love his family because his only baby is defusing bombs, baby!
shotcumposition
2023-10-06 14:54:14 +0000 UTCThere are a lot of film endings that stay with me, but I’ll go with The 400 Blows. We spend the entire film watching Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud, in one of the great child performances of cinema) gradually have his life stripped away from him through a series of heartbreakingly bad decisions until he winds up in a juvenile detention center. In the last scene, when he escapes and runs to the beach, he turns around and looks at the camera…and the movie ends on that iconic, hauntingly ambiguous freeze-frame. We leave Antoine in a bleak situation, as uncertain about his future as he is. And all we can do is wonder and hope for the best. Yes, Truffaut made sequels that provided the answer, but they don’t measure up to how well the question was asked.
Bennett Oliver
2023-10-05 21:41:16 +0000 UTCGrave of the Fireflies. It's a movie you only watch once, because who but an utter emotional masochist would put themselves through such a tragic heart-wringing experience twice?
Brian Kelly
2023-10-05 11:07:23 +0000 UTCDead Poets Society - 'O Captain! My Captain!'
Ross Skilton
2023-10-05 10:03:55 +0000 UTCVertigo I'll never forget accidentally seeing the ending while channel surfing and then thinking "I need to rest of that." Consequently, its one of my top 5 favorite films and my gateway into Hitchcock. Its a haunting, brutal ending that never goes away.
Stephen
2023-10-05 07:52:51 +0000 UTCDefinitely agree with you on Aftersun. Theres a certain pop song I'll never think of the same way again...
Stephen
2023-10-05 07:47:43 +0000 UTCI can name a few but let's say Braveheart. Freedom scene to be specific. Captures spirit of the movie in perfect way. Wallace remained true to himself no matter what. It's inspiring. I saw this movie twice and that ending moved me to tears each time.
Oskitello
2023-10-05 05:38:27 +0000 UTCIn a good way , field of dreams. Oh, sent u something in the discord. U will be honored. Lol.
swift minus one
2023-10-05 03:34:18 +0000 UTCI felt her was more of a rebuttal than a companion piece to Lost in Translation. It seemed like Spike Jonze was giving his side of the story regarding his relationship with his ex-wife Sofia Coppola.
TenzingNorgay82
2023-10-05 02:47:40 +0000 UTCFor me, it’s Synecdoche New York. The first time I watched it, I just sat through the credits utterly speechless. My 15 year old brain was blown, as it made me think of life and death in ways I never thought of before. To this day, the ending still sticks with me as it beautifully yet depressingly summarizes the themes of the film without being expository or pretentious. One of my favorites.
Asher
2023-10-05 02:35:02 +0000 UTCit's low-key a comfort film for me, though there are a bunch of moments where the movie's so punishingly sad. Makes for a great companion piece with Lost in Translation
vince2k
2023-10-05 02:28:11 +0000 UTCI remember having extremely visceral reactions to the endings of three films. 1. Se7en, since its third act revelation completely threw me off guard. In hindsight, I'm still a bit surprised that I didn't catch onto the big reveal way before it actually happened, but that felt like a freight train. 2. Three Colours: Red, which has an ending that feels genuinely life affirming. I just remember having an immense smile on my face and that final shot has stayed with me for a while. 3. Aftersun, which might genuinely have the best b2b closing scenes ever? It sounds ridiculous because it's only been a year since its release and it's a first time feature film, but the last two scenes of that movie crystalized everything the movie was about and I still think about the film every week or so for the last year.
vince2k
2023-10-05 02:26:44 +0000 UTCThe Vanishing. The original movie I mean, not the American remake. L’oeuvre d’or. I just sat through the credits in complete shock and then another twenty minutes as the dvd menu cycled through, processing the absolute bombshell that the movie gleefully waited until the last few minutes to drop on me. Just wow.
LazyDoomShine
2023-10-05 02:17:49 +0000 UTCLast week I watched Spike Jonze's Her for the first time and I was completely unprepared for how beautiful it was. After the first viewing, I watched it again the next day to make sure I wasn't overreacting with unwarranted praise like I did with La La Land years ago and like that film, it is as incredible as I originally thought. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since. When Theodore said "I never loved anyone the way I loved you" to Samantha as his final goodbye, that almost made me shed a tear. Then the letter he writes to his ex-wife followed by the final shot of him and his friend Amy sitting on the roof together is the perfect conclusion to his character who is finally able to admit his faults and move on with more confidence and understanding with a melancholic but hopeful view of his future possibly with Amy. As an introvert who used to be a lot like Theodore, and still kind of is, this film spoke to me on so many levels and is now one of my new favorite films.
Wolfman Brandon
2023-10-05 01:44:58 +0000 UTCBelle de Jour is one of my favorite films and that ending is so bittersweet. It’s like Severine is reverting to her fairy tale fantasies to avoid the current situation. I love it. Now I just had a thought that Anna Biller was possibly inspired by the ending of that film for the ending of The Love Witch. They are very similar to me.
Shane Palamara
2023-10-05 01:05:17 +0000 UTC
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