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...What the hell kind of an ending was that?

posted 11 years ago by nivrehs
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Don't worry, I'm not about to rain on your parade with, "I didn't like this movie" or "it was so boring and pointless." I laughed at a lot of the awkward and quirky humor throughout. But right around the point when Seymour and Enid slept together, it just all went downhill. Not in a crazy *beep* type of way, but just sort of in a dragging, over-sulking, stalemate, dare I say boring way. I mean, what the hell happened?

Yeah, of course Rebecca wouldn't take her back because of her unreliable behavior, absence, and all-talk nature ("I'll get a job [and keep it]"). Who would want to remain friends with someone so negative and cynical who spends all their free time with their "other" friend anyway?

But how does that ending even count as an ending? A bus that hasn't come over the span of the entire film (which to my understanding was several weeks) just suddenly shows up? What? And then Enid just sits there and it shows up immediately afterwards? That was stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. A really cheap way to end an otherwise really original film. It's as if the screenwriters (or the original author in this case) just decided that they were bored with this script and gave it a quick ending.

I know, I know. You're gonna tell me I "don't get it." Right?

[–] Enigmaticocean77 (2433) 3 years ago

No, I'm not going to tell you that you don't get it... I think you're right. The bus ending sucked. If she had just gotten on a normal bus and left town I would have been fine with it, but she didn't. She got on a bus whose line had been discontinued for years. So, this quirky somewhat realistic film shat the bed at the end with a philosophical ending. I still really enjoy this film, but I've always despised the ending.