Hasn't anybody thought that the scene where Esposito discovers that Morales had imprisoned Gomez by himself, might be imagined by Esposito in order to have the right ending to the story and to finally finish his book and get over it?
shareOriginal post: Please do us a favour and edit the thread title to something like "About the last scene...", It's a bit of a subtle spoiler for those who haven't yet seen the film.
Thanks a lot.
For a movie that starts with a highly romanticized scene and is about writing a novel - reminding us how fact and fiction can mix up - to end with a romanticized scene is at least an indicator to consider the possibility of it's fantasy nature.
The key is Irene saying the novel could have a better ending, so I guess the question comes down to this: is it a movie about a man writing a novel reigniting a past relationship in the process, or IS IT THE NOVEL ON FILM, which has a happy ending BECAUSE literature can be fictional?
Both possible, when creators leave a door open or two, I never decide which one is "true", point is, we get to think about different interpretations and that's cool.
of course it is a valid question.. we are expressly told that the protagonist of the film is in the process of writing a fictionalised version of the truth... so it's not like 'you could say that about every other movie' as some of you claim
if that were the case every movie would have this thread on its messageboard wouldnt it
Totally agree with your point. I cannot bring myself to accept that the ending was all imagination, but the creator of the movie was mature enough to leave it open for the audience to decide. There is not one decisive scene that tells us whether the final scenes were real or imagination ("Irene saying the novel could have a better ending" scene could have been a subtle way of saying that She still loves Esposito). I will watch again to satisfy myself though.
Btw nobody pointed out how good the humor in the movie is- I could completely connect with the funny scenes even though I am from different cultural background.
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I don't think the imprisoned Gomez was only an imagination. In fact the only way this case could end is like this. After leaving Morales house, Esposito tried to put all the facts and dialogues together and he found that Morales wouldn't shoot Gomez because he thought it would be a very easy sentence ("What would 4 bulets do for me?" and the scene where he told that the prisoner would only had a letal injection and he would asleep..). So he invented an "fair" sentence - imprisoning for life and complete isolation... (sorry for my English).
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who knows if it is true or not, but it makes a lot of sense.
My fakedar is seldom strong enough to catch that stuff, and I don't re-watch films obsessively to try to figure it all out.