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Did anybody else expected a more twist-heavy ending?


During the final montage and the flashbacks I actually thought this would turn out as a much more heavy twist. I expected something like Fightclub, with a multiple personality disorder, where Morales, Esposito and Gomez are the exact same person. When the alcoholic character said "you forget your past, you create a new one" and all these other one and two-liners, I expected the love story with Irene to be in his own mind, to work as a metaphor, for something the real person never experienced.

What supported this theory (in my own mind while the movie was still running) was the scene with Irene and Gomez, where she interrogated him saying certain degrading stuff to him. This scene was somewhat mirrored later, when the corrupt government official (who released gomez) said some things of the same kind to Esposito (you are just a lawyer, she is so much more) - something along the lines of this. (I watched it in german)


Now don't get me wrong, while the end credits were rolling I knew what just happened and I didn't even figure my own theory out fully (lol) but still, it just seemed to me that it would certainly end with a twist, where 2 or 3 characters are actually the same guy.

Anyone else had this feeling? especially while watching the last 20minutes?

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Yeah that wasn't much of a twist at all. I saw it coming from miles away.

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That would be just bullsh!t.

I know there are many types of films and each type has its followers and all of whom have a right to like or not like a film.

However I have always found films that rely heavily on a 'twist' for their fulfillment, a bit unsatisfing. They are usually mediocre 'twist' films, and yes I do rate Fight Club in that category along with films like Identity, The Sixth Sense, to name a few.

For some reason these twist films seem like utter *beep* to me, where the narrative on second viewing doesn't hold. Sure there are great twist films where the narrative only increases in value upon second viewing, like The Prestige.

Having said, that the movie would great lose it value and charm and the hard impact that the films ending has if it turned out that they were not even real people and you know. This film would definitely drop from being a top 5 material on many grounds to being another cheap 'twist' films. But then again thats me.



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I realized I should have seen it coming but I sort of don't try to figure movies out - it's like going to a magic show and then yelling, "DUDE, THAT'S SO FAKE!" That misses the point. When I watch a movie, I try to get into the Characters, and experience their point of view.

I didn't expect it until Benjamin pulled his car over and waited in the woods. I was with him the entire ride.

The ending blew me away - just so good.

What hump? 

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Actually no, I didn't. The whole movie I was expecting Gomez to escape and to never serve prison time for his crime. And that never mind what they did, the crime would go forever unpunished.
The dictatorship in ARgentina was a very turbulent time, lots of people disappeared everyday, so I just thought that Gomez would vanish and go on with his life somewhere else.
And that Esposito would always remember the case and suffer because of the lack of closure.
Besides, the multiple personality approach, unless it is very well made, I really find it stupid, not brilliant.
I really didn't expect Morales to imprison Gomez. It's just torture for him as well, he is also serving life, but in a different kind of prison.

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I really didn't expect Morales to imprison Gomez. It's just torture for him as well, he is also serving life, but in a different kind of prison.
Neither did I. I thought it was a great twist ending.🐭

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Absolutely agreed.

As you suggested, the problem in setting up a montage of one-liners tempts the audience into a phenomenally high expectation, perhaps even a game-changing twist.

The author's problem was that he needed to make completely clear to the audience Esposito's realisation that he could finally love Irene, first by priming the power of memory in the rapist's lockup.

But a realisation in love doesn't have the same dramatic weight as a realisation in a whodunnit or a suddenly unreliable narrator.

So yes, bit of a damp squib.

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I was actually expecting it to be revealed that Morales was the murdered but I'm glad he wasn't.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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