The feel good, tidy ending where [spoiler]Chris is saved by the joke TSA guy[/spoiler] is rubbish and really undermines the horror of the film...
They should have stuck with rumoured darker, original ending where the cop from earlier in the movie shows up and then we're left not knowing what Chris' fate is...
Why was the director so afraid to go for the darker ending? Who is he trying to please?
I wonder if that black lives matter thing did not happen if he would have used that ending but i wonder if there was a way to show there can not be any winners ticking the Chris won people off somehow.I will never understand the people who claim that Chris won when he could be scarred for life and if they wanted a sort of happy ending it should have been done differently even if I prefer whatever ending has Chris not being able to escape his fate and who knows what would happen to rod if I wrote the ending
shareI'm curious about this. I hear there is a much darker ending on the dvd extras but i've yet to be able to see it. I agree I think it when for the crowd pleaser ending when Peele really could have brought it home much better with something darker.
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The director was probably trying to please guys like me, who actually like a somewhat happy and conclusive ending to finish off such a story.
shareis it really happy if chris is scarred for life and thanks to his experience with rose's mom will have a hard time getting therapy
shareThat's why I said "somewhat" happy ending. Yeah, story was dark and full of horror enough that him possibly not even getting out of it in the end would have been to much. Nice that he could drive away with his friend and possibly get over that horrible experience with time at least.
shareYeah, I enjoyed the ending too. An inconclusive ending would have annoyed me.
shareWhen the car with its flashing lights drove up at the end, I fully expected it to be the highway cop from early in the film -- not just because it was made me to look like that (a fake-out), but more because it felt like that was what the story needed. A jokey rescue by his jokey TSA buddy just felt like someone had slashed the film's Achilles tendon as it ran for the finishing line.
Apart from anything else, it didn't resolve anything. The TSA buddy had given the cops Chris' name and that of his girlfriend's family, so when they turned up dead Chris was going to have a lot of 'splaining to do. And with the family all murdered, the zombie servants dead, the photos of all the previous boyfriends probably hidden away again, Chris was going to be in some strife. It wasn't over.
I don't need everything in a mystery/thriller to be tied up neatly, but there were other aspects of the story that were made to seem significant but weren't handled very neatly, and should have been -- such as the deer (was it really an accident? the family didn't seem all that surprised, and the deer in the basement was made to seem more than just an ironic coincidence), the cop on the highway (was his probable-racism meant solely as foreshadowing? were we meant to think everyone in that area had attitudes like that?), and the abduction of the bloke on the street in the opening sequence (so it wasn't just the sister's carnal efforts that brought subjects into the business? was this the brother's efforts, rather than finding people to sleep with?). It did feel somewhat fragmented, and I wondered if the writer/director had thought these things through before making it. Or did they just seem like good tension-builders and red herrings? (In which case, frankly, they smelled a bit.)