Why did Caroline look back at the end of the movie??

I have seen that look before kids,It's pure doubt and fear in those eyes.
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One girl, I drove through three states wearing her head as a hat.

my theory may be stupid but whatever...

I don't think he didn't understand her. he just didn't remember the question.. he didn't care about her like she did about him :) it was just a game - she is a hot chick and he is mentally retarded - he stands no chance to get her so he had to be two times cleverer than other boys... he had to talk about internal beauty and other stuff like that - chicks love it!... :):):) sad but true
Agata_PL

It wasn't exactly a negative look of doubt.

It was not a undecisive look. She made her choice knowing the consequences, she suffored the entire movie just to make it work and make everybody else understand that they are both going to be together no matter what anybody else thinks or says.

Everybody is unsure of the future with there partners, nothings for sure, so they wouldn't make her look back because of that.

She looked back because it had been one ride never to forget, the expierence put that expression on her face would it not to you? Everything from the entire movie if you understood it the way it was meant to be understood put that expression on her face, and that's why it ended that way, it had too. If they continued walking and it ended without her looking back, that still doesn't make any promises for there future. It wasn't about doubt. It was about everything.

Maybe she was glaring at everyone.

Caroline was actually a cold blooded killer, and nobody knew. It was all part of an elaborate plan to murder Pumpkin(I love the pie, by the way). That one look was all the warning anyone had, and everyone missed it. That night, she garroted him mid-coitus. (I think I'm gonna bake one tomorrow, if I go shopping) If only one could have better interpreted her vague grimace, a tragedy may have been averted... but for how long? (maybe some cookie dough and just smoosh some nuts in... man, I'm hungry)

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. -Neitsche

I'm really shocked that nobody has brought up the film's obvious nods to Cinderella (Pumpkin, in this case, being Cinderella).

The line in Carolyn's poem about turning Pumpkins into coaches...

Furthermore, I'd be disappointed if her glance back at the end was anything as obvious as "Oh gosh, what have I gotten myself into!"

Metaphorical meaning v.s. literal meaning: the filmmaker is calling on us, the hoi polloi to recognize the difference, and co-existence of the two. Reflect, people. Reflect.

I loved this movie. It had a tone as solid as iron.

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Christine Ricci was looking back, confused by something the director shouted to her as she was walking down the field. Shoddy editing caused this scene to be left in the final cut. The actual scene was supposed to have the characters of Carolyn and Pumpkin walking across the field, pumping their fists in the air a la Judd Nelson in Sixteen Candles.

That look was her realization that getting what she wanted might not have been such a prize. A Pyrrhic victory.

You can see a similar scene at the end of "The Graduate". When Benjamin and Elaine finally take a seat on the bus and just sit. The exhilerated looks fade and they begin to look unsure and uneasy.