How annoying. A movie about very ordinary people, ending in an extraordinary act of violence that I can't imagine being committed by even a crazy person. What a way to fuel unreasonable fears and keep people locked in their houses.
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Good example Murphy of more concentrated sensationalist violence bearing no resemblance to the acual level or likelihood of violence in the real world and yet another reason why many women think they're going to get clubbed over the head with an iron bar the minute they step foot outside the house.
share...when theyw ent to sleep in the car my husband said "Why dont they get a hotel room?" and then when "IT" happened we were screaming "THATS why you shoulda got a hotel room!!!!" SPOILER.... my husband didnt "think" the movie as much as I did....so like many people some of the ending was lost on him. In case any one else missed this: 1. when the two sisters are talking and the older one says something to imply she'd like to get them in a car accident that would kill herself and the mother. The younger sister says "I dont want to die" and the older sister says "You wont. your in the backseat." How ironic that in the end those are the charactors that end up dead. ALSO when the sisters had been talking about thier impending "first time" the younger one said she wanted to lose it to someone she didnt love at all....and once again...the ending works out that way. Maybe Im wrong or just cutting the film some slack.
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I interpreted the final moments to indicate that the daughter willingly had sex with the maniac who killed her mother and sister. After saying that she didn't want to lose her virginity to someone she loved, and then being led out of the forest with the policeman saying "she says she wasn't raped".
shareDid she want to sully her own reputation to make her sister look less sinful?
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yes it was a bit odd. However the movie kind of "ramped up" to that ending with the menacing freeway scene near the end. I started to feel that they were all going to get wiped out in a traffic accident.
shareI've been browsing the IMDB here trying to "get it" and I now am pretty sure I see what the director is going for in this ending.
Many parallels have already been pointed out here, such as seduction vs. rape, fulfilling Anais's idea of not loving her first partner, and the foreshadowing of death even coming true, albeit in a much more shocking way. I was sitting there expecting a car crash naturally, as was expected (whether it be random or at the hands of Elena).
Yet in the end it is sudden, shocking, out of nowhere. And right when you least expect it, all done within seconds. So many people have said "the director ran out of ideas" or "it's a gimmick" or "it's just shock value" or just think it doesn't fit the narrative. Many of you feel betrayed. Just like Elena's Italian lover betrayed her. The film betrayed us. As we watched it we were secuded, just like Elena. And in the end, pow. Betrayal. I believe this parallel is intentional, while many people feel betrayed, they have failed to realize that this betrayal mirrors Elena's experience.
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But I really didn't need an unrealistic ending to grasp the concept of betrayal. Now I'm onto figuring out the ending of La Ville est Tranquille. What is this new self-destructive theme in French cinema?
shareWho cares if this experience mirror's Elena's experience? That's not enough to justify this putrid ending. Not even close. It's just a weak rationalization, IMO. The director has a larger responsibility to the entire pacing and plot of the film to just cop out at the end on some flimsy notion that it mirrored one of the character's experiences. And it in NO WAY accounts for the fact that the killer/rapist didn't kill Anais after he raped her. So really...any way you slice it, the ending was horrible, and destroyed an otherwise powerful film. Honestly, I think the director suffers from some serious mental defect, and it comes across in all of her films.
"Love isn't what you say or how you feel, it's what you DO". (The Last Kiss)