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A spoiler, please!

posted 22 years ago by twob_ornot
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I saw the movie some time ago, and I can't remember the ending. Somebody enlighten me, please.

[–] jonesstu 21 years ago

Alice is left by her lover and Hire asks her to go away with him. She plants the murdered girl's handbag in Hire's room and tells the police. They come to arrest him and he flees across the rooftops, slips and falls to his death.

[–] floatingfrenchcloud 21 years ago

And before he falls to his death, he looked at Alice and said "thank you" -causes me a lot of wonders all these years why did he say so. I guess although she betrayed him, but she still is the ONE that makes him wanting to come out his darkness of living.

[–] davidyuill_77 18 years ago

it could be that he is thanking her for offering a vague glimour of hope she offered (or that he perceived she offered) to end his dreary existence and to finally start living. or maybe for providing proof that there was more to life than his dull life and appearance. i dont really know either. still, touching tale of loneliness and alienation even if a lot of the characters are hard to like

[–] clearancesale 20 years ago

And didn't he leave something in the bank safe before he died? Some letter that proved his innocence, adressed to the inspector, if my memory is right.

[–] esedwards 20 years ago

At the end of the film, the inspector finds a note addressed to him explaining his innocence and how Alice and he (monsieur hire) have ran away together. Unfortunately, they don't leave together which I think is an excellent ending because it demonstrates how Hire would never have been accepted by other people because society is too quick to convict anyone that appears to be different from what they consider the "norm."

[–] jlam888 19 years ago

But why did Alice do that to monsieur Hire? Why would she frame him if her ex lover had left her?

[–] 19 years ago

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[–] jlam888 19 years ago

And what is a muppet?

[–] puppydog000 19 years ago

I think Alice framed Hire because she ultimately loved her boyfriend more. She assumed that Hire would board the train to Switzerland and never come back, hence if she framed him for the crime no one would go to jail. Alternatively, it could be argued that she knew Hire wouldn't leave without her and she wanted Hire to get caught. The question is: did she have any feelings for Hire? I still can't get the ending and that slow-motion shot out of my head.

[–] ctigerlass 19 years ago

ask Jim Henson jlam888

[–] Yxklyx 17 years ago

Her lover had to get away because he thought the authorities were on his tail. He didn't leave her.

Note how the detective followed Hire to the boxing match but Hire was following Alice and her boyfriend. The boyfriend then thought incorrectly that the detective was following HIM and so he fled. I think this was supposed to happen several times in the story/movie. The boyfriend was all freaked out throughout most of the movie because he kept seeing the detective on his tail when in fact the detective was on Hire's tail and Hire was following Anna and the boyfriend.

[–] Satantangoandcash 8 years ago

The first thing the detective asked Hire outside the boxing match was where are they? He also told him he didn't think he was guilty and that if he didn't talk the crime would be pinned on him. That means that the detective suspected Emile and Alice and was at the boxing match watching them, not Hire.

[–] twob_ornot 19 years ago

I should have checked back here earlier. Now I can't remember the movie at all.

[–] kriss_kringle 13 years ago

After the detective found the coat wouldn't Alice's boyfried get arrested?And even if Hire left a note explaining that she didn't have anything to do with the crime,who knows what the detective did?In the end,she made the worse decision someone could have made.She lost Hire,and after the evidence incriminating her boyfriend,she would lose him as well.
Edit: I now realise that Alice would get arrested too because the detective would know that she planted the purse in Hire's apartment and lied about him being the killer.In the end,Hire dying,made it worse for Alice and her boyfriend because the truth came out.Kind of ironic if you think that she/they thought that framing Hire would get them off the hook.