Alex Dead?

Alex is alive at the end. If David and Alex were dead both bodies would be in the morgue. The solo narration at the end doesn't make sense if they both are dead. David was talking about friendship at the end. Having seen the movie we know Alex is the friend who loves to talk. Alex would never let David have the last word.

One friend is dead; one friend is a fugitive; and one friend got the money.

There can be only one.

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He's not dead. No major arteries or organs were hot. Sure he bled out but, in the end, it's only David being covered up and put in the freezer.

Maybe the idea is that it could be both
Someone else has mentioned that Danny Boyle movies CANNOT be taken at face value. Maybe it's meant to be ambiguous, and open to debate.

I think he's screwed either way, in my opinion to safely move him from that kitchen they would need to cut away the floor board that the knife is through, meaning they would find the money.

He's alive, that's the whole point of the ending.

It is sad to say but he is dead.

Couple of things:

a) the "mugshot" right in his face (that's my first red flag)

b) the passive paramedics (that's a detail i skip 'til i got here)

But the most interesting thing is how Boyle/Hodge played with our expectations: Introducing us with the narrator character who failed to survive using an ambiguos time perspective:

a) the initial/final speech, we don't know when exactly takes place

b) the Alex greeting of the police officer it could be at anytime

Cause if he eventually survived he would go to jail, so what it would be the reason detre of that drop of blood over the money bill? And the his laughter afterwards?

I think it's a little bit surreal, but what definitely helps the cult status of the movie is the final montage and specially the tone of the song played.

I was thinking why where they taking photographs of him instead of rushing him to the hospital ASAP...

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