The ending in the film is so haunting and breath-taking, it just knocks me out. The music, the crash, the episode playing out on the living room floor. I really cannot think of a better ending in movie history. Just incredible! And yes, I know, the whole film was great. It is just that the ending is so good!
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It's amazing and I feel that the music is one of the main reasons why the whole sequence is so powerful. I can't remember the last time an ending moved me so deeply.
shareThe rest of the film is terrific - Peter Weir was getting back to the visual, non-verbal poetry we saw in his early Australian films in this one - but the ending alone deserves to go in the time capsule, under the category of Greatest Sequences In Film History.
"Everyone else may be an a**hole, but I'm not!" - Harlan Ellison
Agreed here. The scene is powerfully emotional for reasons almost too complex to articulate. It's not just the tragedy of the thing; there's some kind of beauty in it too, almost an unexpected kind of fateful rightness. Kind of reminds me of Theodore Roethke -- "I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. / I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. / I learn by going where I have to go."
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This film tore me apart when I first saw it. I'll never forget how it made me feel and the power in the ending. Every time I see it I wish that I had been smart enough to see it in a theater but instead I waited for laserdisc to rent it. As gut wrenching as it was at home I cannot imagine what it must have been like to experience it in the big screen.
Few films ever capture the power of life and death. This one did. And it's a crying shame so few people have seen it.
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I gave this a 10/10 rating. Without that ending, I would've given this an 8/10.
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