What happens in the end?
I have seen this movie twice, but never the end!
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- spoilers for anyone reading this lol -
well, basically she goes to move out with this other guy.. don and jill have this huge argument about how jill thinks she's free but she just keeps dropping people because she's like scared to love or something. so she leaves, we see don trash the place a little. like 2 min later she comes back in and tells him that she had a shadow vision and he's like "was it a lamppost?" and she's like "no.. it was ralph..." and then she tells him that she cheated because she had her eyes open and then they hug and kiss on the floor and it goes to credits the eeeeend.
????????????????? so htey stay together in the end???
shareI'm afraid so, just watched it on TCM tonight - and that ruddy ending completely ruined what to me up to that point had been this highly intelligent, near _perfect_ piece of film!
I do hope this wasn't how the original play had it, is all I'll say :/
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"Never finish what you can't start!" ;)
But it's not a typically 'happy' ending as such.
She wants to run away from him because he's not like the other guys she's been with- she feels if she were to get sick of him after 6 days, like her husband, she would break his heart because his mother said he 'falls hard' for girls and he'd depend on her and would be too fragile to leave alone because he'd need her.
But he says that it's HER problem, not anything to do with him- she just doesn't want to take the risk of being in love with someone. He tells her not to stay with him out of pity because he's blind, but not to use it as an excuse to leave him either.
The end is a risk- there's no big declaration of love as such- he's stronger and could handle any future rejection and she's accepted that- and she decides to risk making a commitment and seeing where it goes from there.
Yes, she comes back, but not before it's made clear that he's strong enough to be alone and would be able to move on with his life if she didn't.
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No that's wrong. The ending is absolutely appropriate. If Jill had gone off with Starsky it would mean she had not changed or grown. The point of the movie is that everyone changed or grew from interacting with each other. the mother changed, And in the end Jill changed. If you look carefully there are parallels between the Mom and Jill, but you have to look carefully.
sharethat ruddy ending completely ruined what to me up to that point had been this highly intelligent, near _perfect_ piece of film!
I do hope this wasn't how the original play had it, is all I'll say :/
That's kind of how I felt, but possibly for different reasons. I kind of hoped Jill would leave Don for a longer period of time; long enough for him to find courage to pull himself up by his bootstraps, to begin being more productive with his life/career and not because he had his mother or Jill to lean on. On the other hand, Jill may be a better person for possibly finding the courage to have a long-term relationship with Don (or anyone), so maybe the ending didn't totally suck ;)
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