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I didn't draw the same slavery conclusions but I did think exactly the same thing about the ice-cream eating scene at the end. Leticia was looking at the tombstones, planning on revenge killing Hank and was joining him in his own monster's ball. All the main characters are sort of victims and monsters trapped in cycles. Both coping with victimhood and abusing power over other humans in many interactions. A fabulous film about human dynamics, so yes, in a way the master/ slave dynamic - most starkly demonstrated at the end where it seems as if Leticia has wilfully succumbed to a position of dependence upon Hank, submitting and giving him infinite power to potentially eventually destroy her like so many other already fallen victims deemed weak in the sorry story - but I believe the final scene shows her engaging her monster side and planning on executing Hank. Strength in being the monster - yikes

posted 6 years ago in Monster's Ball (2002)