Yup. I think it was Collative Learning with Rob Ager who made the point that the spinning top was his wife's totem, not Cobb's. So Nolan was playing a bit of THE PRESTIGE on the audience with a bit of sleight of hand.
Oh! That would make sense because you can't use someone else's totem right? That would make Cobb's totem his wedding ring. So, in the dream he has it on but outside of it he does not. Either this means that he made it out and everything is cool or it means that Leo forgot to put the ring prop back on.
thanks for pointing it out, I was jsut about to go on a rant, that didn't eyplain crap, observant people knew that the top never was his totem to begin with, he explaines it ind etail, that you can neither tell anyone about it nor that you can use another one.
Because these are "Lady and the Tiger" endings. The explanation is that there's no closure, no final answer, no definitive end. The story stops and you have to simply accept that that's all you get. They're not puzzles to be worked out, no hidden meaning to suss out. Zip, click. Done.
that's not entirely true, the only one like that was inception, and the last one was just meant to confuse you, the entire movie was meant to make no sense, there's meant to be no explanation
Stating that it 'is what you want it to be' IS explaining WHAT kind of ending it is. It doesn't spoon feed you the actual supposed ending, it explains that it is MEANT to be ambiguous, therefore it IS an explanation...it just seems like it was NOT the sort of explanation you WANTED to hear. :)
The ending to birdman (at least the way I think of it) is that he did in fact successfully commit suicide, she looked down and saw his body, but as she was raising her eyes to the sky, she saw his soul. I think it adds more of a poetic feel to it
I'm aware. What annoys me is people who still don't understand it. What's not to understand? Yes the ending is a little open ended and up for interpretation but overall the rest is pretty straight forward. So if I see it on another list of "ENDINGS FINALLY EXPLAINED!" or "FILM ENDINGS NO ONE UNDERSTANDS" I'm throwing a shoe at someone.
You have to admit that if you watched it for the first time then it is confusing if you don't take in what the film is trying to do . but I totally understand why you want to throw shoes haha
J De .. That the beauty of movies and Music, different interpretations. I get, at then end, he sees his kids.. And no longer cares.. He is with them regardless of dream or not.. I wish I didnt care...
I thought fight club and memento ending are self explanatory. But i agree that donnie darko ending a little bit confusing. I had to pause every text that show up and read it plus watch it 3 times to understand..
Inception is pretty easy to decipher. 1. Cobb wouldn't have seen his kids faces if it were a dream. 2. The top wouldn't have wobbled if it were a dream. 3. It's implied with the gun placed on the table that he shot himself to escape limbo and wake up on the plane along with Saito.
Also he never wears his ring in the real world but he always wears it in the dream and in the final scene he isn't wearing a ring so it's the real world
*THAN* It never fails to amuse when someone puts down others intelligence, then can't figure out simple grammar. "Then" makes absolutely no sense where you put it. Think about the words you use, grammar isn't the hardest thing on the planet to learn, life gets a lot harder than that.
Yeah, 2001 should have been here instead of batman. But because people wanted to give batman more thought than it deserved, and it's more contemporary and on peoples' minds, or because this youtuber didn't see 2001 or was not able to explain it.
But jumped out where? Middle of the ocean? No one saw him? He swam back wearing the bat suit? It purposely left ambiguous. It shouldn’t of been but it was.
He jumped of off helicopter with a nuclear bomb of 6 miles? And he survived. I want to believe he died. That makes more sense. Or he jumped next to that bridge.
i love you guys!! and the only reason i'm this overflowing with joy is that you included movie titles and their exact spots on video. this is just professionalism. as a person who didn't watch most of these movies and is totally scared of getting any sort of spoilers, i thank you from the bottom of my heart
Vanilla Sky is my favorite movie. I literally ball my eyes out the minute he looks up at the vanilla sky and says “Let them up there read my mind” and then he looks down and Penelope Cruz is standing there so beautifully lit and the beautiful Sigur Ros song starts playing. Ahhh I’m getting chills just typing it out. If anyone needs ANY kind of explanation for Vanilla Sky, let me know. I can tell you everything. I’ve seen it at least 10x and the original just as much
Hey just seen this..n my mind really twisted with so many questions...who was sophie really is??is it Penelope or is it Cameroon?n y did sophie avoided david after accident???did sophie loved him or not??n who is ellie??y cameroon diaz hit him n though she said she thought he was a vandal she wasn't shocked to misunderstood him as a vandal looked like she was really intended to hit him..n so many:/
"Mulholland Drive" needs to be understood in relation to his previous film "The Straight Story" an uncharacteristically normal film with broad appeal. It's main audience was aging Americans and became incredibly popular in that demographic. This demographic is also rather uninterested in keeping up with every film genre and current film being made and their directors like the yonder generations are. They saw a nice movie by a nice man who also made a new movie. They were advertising "Mulholland Drive" this way. I remember when I went to see it in my local theater, it was filled with nothing but whitehaired nice people thinking they were going to see another nice movie. When the film took its inevitable turn, I looked around and saw an entire theater filled with horrified people who all thought they had lost their minds. I suddenly realized what Lynch had done.
The bird man ending has to be the ending that has made me the happiest of all the movie endings in all my life, I love the way of how when Sam see’s her father flying through the sky, making her enter into a delusional reality that her father is still alive flying with super powers and making her bond with him even more stronger than before gives me a smile all the time whenever I think about it, it’s always makes me happy to see the fact that he has succeeded on making himself a real super hero to the eyes of his daughter and to see that she now is on the same direction he was
Why would that make you happy? He was delusional and he made his daughter delusional, he was also depressed and killed himself, so why's would you be happy that his daughter is on the same delusional path to kill herself
Mulholland Dr is about a woman (the blonde) who comes to Hollywood to make it as an actress. She is going to get a job in a movie but the director's lover (the brunette) gets it instead. She's disgruntled so she hires a hitman to kill the brunette. It turns out she loves the brunette and feels guilty so she kills herself. The first two thirds of the movie are her dreams that take place between when she pulls the trigger and when she dies. The last third is the back story (in the real world) of how the suicide induced dream came about.
Close to how I interpret that movie. P.S. Never tried to understand it though. I was merely re-watching it for the third time as an atmospheric lesbian movie, when suddenly understood what the movie is about. ))
good! You got really close, but mixed up some details from the dream sequence with the reality sequence. The blonde is a third rate actress, in love with the brunette. The brunette, chooses to marry a director for career purpouses. Blinded with jealousy, the blonde has the brunette killed, then, overtaken by guilt commits suicide. All the first part of the film is the blonde dream before she actually dies. Also there are to consider a ton of tie-ins with Twin Peaks mythos, but that would take a really long time
Just adding some little but important details, there is the symbolism of the blue box, kind of representing the "portal" to the real word, and that the dream sequences is how she sees herself, as a good actress that is loved by everyone. The "no hay banda" part is directly saying that everything until the theater part was not real, so they decide to open the blue box and see the real, sad world.
I actually really appreciate the thought that went into the points this video made apprised to the other videos floating around. Much more detailed! Nice.
i totally disagree on the dark knight and especially on bird man. About birdman, everything at the end scenes were perfect. The husband-wife, the father-daughter and the friend-to-friend relasionship are all better than ever. The same is true about the woman that wanted to destroy his play. Also all the paparatsi are all over him and finally the all known scene where he jumps out of the window and the girl watches him fly. Let me point out that she wasn't surprised or scared but she just smiled, totally what I would do if I watched my father fly. All that's true because it actually isn't, it's all in his mind. He was thinking how it would be if he had survived the shot but, news flash, he really killed himself on stage.
The Dark Knight Returns? Do you assume that your audience is made of a mentally challenged crowd? How about you do 'Enemy' instead? You know, a movie in which you probably need an explanation to understand it's brilliance?
Preach man. Sad to think people thought the Nolan movie endings on this list were confusing. I guess any open ended ending in a movie must be confusing.
yes. And "more violence"? Texas and US murder and gun crime rates are half of what they were a couple of decades ago. Shooting rates are way less than ever today, and even if the setting is 2005 that was way way down from the early 1990's so the sherrif thinking 2005 (novel) or 2010 (film) violence was more is absurd answer
Film snobs love to praise movies with ambiguous endings. "The writer/director is so brilliant! By not having a definitive ending, it allows you to create your own and challenges your perceptions!" I'll let you in on a little secret: Writing satisfying endings is hard. So when an ending is left open/ambiguous, probably about 90% of the time it's because the writer/director couldn't think of a good way to end it, so they said "Fuck it. I'll just leave it open and people will think I'm some kind of genius." There was an episode of the sitcom Still Standing where the parents find a bunch of pictures drawn by their youngest daughter. where none of the characters have hands. They agonize over what this symbolizes and when they finally ask her about it, they ask if it's because she feels powerless and that was a way to show it. The little girl shrugs and says "I'm just not good at drawing hands." The only difference with open film endings is that the people behind them are happy to take credit for it being some clever decision that they made.
kronosx7 so they were alive on the island and all that really happened but they all died on the island and met up in the church after they died? nothing on the polar bear or statue and was that community real or no?
I don't remember the statue but the polar bear was an animal that escaped from the darpa initiative and they didn't all die on the island, remember the sideways reality where it kept flashing to scenes from them off the island? That all happened to, they all died at different points in their life but the purgatory is timeless so no matter when or where they died, they all showed up there at the same time.
Some of them died on the island for sure, Jack definitely did but some of them also got the plane working and escaped. Hurley became the islands caretaker so he probably did too.
Mulholland Drive honestly is UNDERSTANDABLE (with some scenes that just can be said to be "Lynch being Lynch"). Though he will NEVER explain any of his films, he did have that insert that came with the DVD's that were like (I believe 9...) "things to look for while watching Mulholland Drive'. Though everyone should take away what they got from it (and some got none...) I do think there is a pretty solid story there.
why did so many people find inception confusing??!!! It was beautiful and completely made sense if you paid attention. It's definitely not a movie to just watch from halfway in but if you actually pay attention it all makes sense as far as the ending goes, The ending was perfect it led us to believe that he died because his item was still moving but at the very end before cut to black the piece started to wiggle and slow down meaning he actually was still alive .
You guys really seem to be going in tge " screencrush " direction by recycling old videos and using new titles so you can continue to just keep pumping out as much content as possible. Quantity over quality I guess.
Inception - You never wake up into a new dream, you always just end up there mid stride. Birdman - You'll notice the hing point at his "attempted" suicide after his play. Suddenly everything turns around. In reality, he is actually dead and everything from the stage suicide forward is him coming to terms with passing on. Seeing his daughter finally accepting him with all his "powers" puts him at rest, even if it is all in his mind before he dies.
I'm surprised that 2001: A Space Odyssey wasn't on this list. Perhaps too many people would be thinking...never mind the ending! Explain the whole film!! (But I love the film.)
To look for "an explanation " in the some of these movies is like to ask for an explanation for a musical piece. Movies are not just about the story, they also take us to an emotional journey. Mulholland Drive is one of my favorites. It shakes the viewer, and seeks to disturb. The confusion about what is happening adds to it. Like looking at a Goya painting, or at Guernica after being told your mom is dead.
yeah but did anyone ever "explain" it ? I mean I don't think there is any explanation of this film, you just experience it, you watch it again and again it's like a mushroom trip
Yea there's a supposed Explination by Kubrick. So the Man lives the rest of his life in that Room, that Room is basically a Menagerie or a Zoo for a Human. The Art being French Renaissance but wrong, kind of like a Zoo enclosure. He's being Kept there by Beings of Pure Light and then when he dies he is reborn and sent back to Earth as the Strarchild. That's supposed to be Kubricks Idea. Idk if that's 100% true tho...
Cloud Atlas? Although, when I watched that we didn't read the synopsis and thought it would be fun to watch something we didn't know anything about. We picked the wrong movie to do that to. Waited the whole movie to figure out what was happening, and we ended up more lost than your missing sock.
If u understand about the Eastern religious mythos, it won't be hard to understand what Cloud Atlas is trying to say... It's about consciousness in a cyclical reality bounded by flesh, (Reincarnation)...
"...some leave their last scene amBIGuous to keep audiences THINKing..." The narrator's odd inflections are unsettling me. I mean, I'm Australian, so it's not the accent. It's the way he stops and starts and emphasises unexpected parts of words.
The only confusing thing about it, was the fact that most of the "science" in it, was complete trash. Plus the whole plot, of course. Which part of the movie didn't you understand?
The science of Interstellar wasn't "trash". Actually it wasn't anything too special either, typical relativistic tropes you'll find in a lot of films where the director wants to play smart. Sure the whole wormhole and tesseract thing wasn't science but since we don't know what actually happens in singularities you can give it the benefit of the doubt. What WAS trash is the fact that after 2.5 hours of full scientific nerdgasm the movie is conveniently tied up using the card: "the power of love is the essence of the universe", which is utter wank
Here goes The Real Birdman explanation. Are you ready? Movie start showing him levitating and asking how we get here? But before that we see flaming meteor in the sky - thats the real begining. Then he just going back to work as usual. Mind work is not over. In this point all happening in his mind alone, he has already died - drowned in waters after medusas killed him. He did not get out of it. He is now working out his relationship especially with his daughter who he did not see - his biggest regret. In mean time his egoistic tendencies keeps coming back at him and distract him again as he fight with them all the time. He can't leave without sorting things out. Was it the great spectacle, the great performance on the stage the meaning of his life? No. Haven't you asked yourself if what we see is real? Was it not curious to you that he change scenery like in magic dream? From one place to another. One moment he is in bar talking with his biggest critic, he go out make few steps open next door and found his daughter in some place just there as if waiting for him. They both bashed his ego, helped him to realize he is not the centre of the universe. That he does not exist. They inspire him to look deeper for others to drop his tendencies. Even the scene where he shot himself in the head turns out to be ... he shot himself in the nose? Really? You still think its real? And when he get off the bandages mask that peculiar resambed birdman mask what we see? A purple nose? Thats it? Wheres gunshot wound from yesterday? Why he got any nose for that matter? The answer is: It's unreal already. Its all happening in his own mind. And when he get out of window, he flyed out and finally let go, droped self importance, and his daughter sees it. In this very moment we see what he see, as he finally percive her and see her happy. Thats liberates him.
Wasn't this video already uploaded by Looper a while ago? I recognized it because I saw the scene from Birdman as the thumb nail, the explanation to the ending is the only one that stuck with me after it and I still remember it without even seeing the movie. Idk I could have future vision or be insanely high but I need to know if this video is a re-upload.
I love your explanation for mulholland drive. All David Lynch movies and side projects are like that. Well maybe not Straight Story, but i think he did that movie to throw his fans a curve ball.
Pop.Up I think most people are more confused about the entire movie than just the ending. It's a strange movie, but anyone who really wants to know can look up enough of the director and writers explanations.
I remember I was really confused by the ending to The Brady Bunch Movie! I mean...sure, they have the $20,000...but it was too late. The house was already up for auction. So Dittmeyer could simply outbid them! I was all so confusing!
I really didn't get the Vanilla Sky ending comment. Can soemone explain? I thought the ending was what was explained... everything just happening in his head, he making a decision...brought back to life... is this wrong?
experiments in time travel gone horribly horribly wrong. Look up time travel paradoxes, best explanation is that, we ( humans) cannot time travel with out avoiding extremely disturbing and perplexing paradoxes that should leave even our sharpest minds to just let the whole thing go, we just are not made for it. That movie is a very good fictional example of why.
With Predestination it wasn't so much the ending that confused me. But how did it all begin. How could that impossible story of started if he was his own parents?
+binary day that's the point of the entire film. Predestination is about the bootstrap paradox, to explain it the best I can; Say a young man is given a gold pocket watch by an old woman, later in this man's life he builds a time machine where he goes back in time so he can give the watch back to the woman when she was younger, this would mean the watch has no origin and isn't logically possible, making the watch a paradox.
it wasn't that confusing. the part where Jane and John met and fizzle bomber's death pretty much explained that his/her life was the perfect orchestra of a never-ending loop. connect the dots and you'll find the possibility of the loop.
How is it not confusing, explain pls. I loved the film, thought it was really clever, how he designed everything in his life, how everything that happened was of his own making. But what is never explained is how it all started. How was it possible he existed. With Saccharin3D idea of the watch, it could have had another beginning, that became part of a loop. Someone else could have given the woman the watch, she gives it to the time traveler and he travels back to give it to the woman, who then starts the loop by giving it to the time traveler. But with Predestination, there is no other way it could have ever begun. Because he is both parents and the child.
You forget one critical element of "No Country": The speech Ed Tom has with Ellis where he ponders what has happened to him, and whether he is man enough for this job in this violent world anymore. Ellis recounts a tale that took place almost 100 years earlier, depicting the violent end of a family member who drowned in his own blood after being shot by desperados. He ends by essentially telling Ed Tom that the world has always been violent, but that it isn't going to wait on Ed Tom to figure it out. "That's vanity," Ellis states. So while Ed Tom may now realize he is too old to continue being the guardian of the light, the world will move on without him, violent as it ever was, and will give the old man no country to pasture.
So the No Country For Old Men dream - here's my take. I think Tommy Lee's character is thinking about death - specifically about his own death. He does mention first that his father died young, and that he is the older man. In the dream the two of them are riding towards the mountain pass and the father passes Tommy by on their way to the pass. Tommy says that he wasn't told, but simply knew his father was going on ahead to start a camp fire for warmth, and then also describes the white torch being carried by his father. The mountain pass itself is death, or the place people go when they die - and because the Father only lived about 30 years, he reached the pass sooner than Tommy - both in the sense that he died many years earlier in the story, but also in the sense that he completed life's journey quicker and in the metaphor his horse moves faster. Tommy is therefore thinking about what it will be like to meet his father again, something I think he is closer to doing than he lets on.
Yeah, I'm surprised this video does such a cop-out on that one. The film is actually pretty clear once you figure that part out. The first half is the idealized dream world of a woman who felt betrayed and used in the real world.
Yeah yeah yeah.... ending-up-to-audience's-own-interpretation-rubbish again and again.... just admit it - laziness, insufficient budget, trying to look witty or deep, ran out of idea, utilizing "abstracts" as veil for whatever I mentioned previously... seriously man, if everything requires audiences' own interpretation then you better give us a part of your pay check! Ambiguous endings are so super overuse and abused! Dear Mr Directors, We audience wants to see YOUR vision and world within your work! If films just want to act-smart and always using ambiguous ending then why the hell do I even want to pay and watch a work thats supposedly YOUR vision?!
Regarding Birdman, I agree with you that he successfully committed suicide, but Sam didn't hallucinate seeing her father fly away, because that entire scene didn't happen. He's dead, and this is his happy dying dream about what's in store for his future. His delusion, not hers. Right before the final scene, we see a few images that mirror those shown at the very start (something burning up on entering orbit, etc.), and it serves as a start and end point of sorts. So why does the scene play after he shot himself instead of right at the end of the movie? Because it's not signifying the end of the movie, but the end of his life. When the movie starts it's a way to show personally significant yet abstract memories from Birdman's past, and when it occurs again it's his life flashing before his eyes as the curtain falls.
an interesting theory i read about Birdman was that Riggan actually did kill himself on stage. The whole film appeared to be taken in one shot, but after he kills himself on stage, continuity is broken and other shots are edited in. The continuity is broken as Riggan's life ended. What that final scene was, in essence, was a fantasy or perhaps "heaven" where everything is how Riggan wanted: daughter's love and acceptance and world-wide fame.
What's really cool about this movie is that the mystery man character is supposed to be Fred's jealousy personified and if you listen to the conversation they have at the party scene, it can be read as a man talking to his own sense of jealousy. "How'd you get into my house?" "You invited me."
Surprised the Life of Pi wasn't on here. It ended with a question. Was the story of fantasy, survival, and self becoming real? Or was the story of logic and survival real? It really makes you think because scientists don't want to here religion involved into logic, while religious folk understand science but put beliefs and faith into perspective and defy all logic.
Life of Pie wasn't exactly confusing. The ending part actually was brilliant. The hero told an amazing story but when asked by his interviewer whether the animals that supposedly shared the life boat with him really were animals or rather animal manifestations of actual people that had survived with him he told a far more believable version of the story with people. At the beginning of the movie the protagonist believes that the animals in his father's zoo have souls and are sapient and sentient beings, including the tiger. He wants the tiger and the other animals to be what he believes they are. Divine creations. His father quickly demonstrates what a vicious and dangerous animal a tiger is. The boy still can't let go of his belief that animals aren't different from people and that influences his story. The boy also struggles with which faith he should accept and follow. He switches faiths three times I believe and finally settles on Muslim. This is another clue to the amazing story he told. He chose that one much like his faith. The paradise island that just magically appeared is another clue. Even he doubts it was really real. When finally asked which of the two stories is the right one he asks the interviewer which one he prefers. If my memory serves me right the interviewer found the amazing one with the tiger way more colorful and memorable. "And so it is with God" the protagonist concludes. To me this is a clear case of what attracts people to religion. That everything they are and experience all have some higher meaning and is way more magic than just the cold, logic world of science. As such the protagonist told a "better story" that still was a fabrication and a lie. Much like religion.
The ending is explained pretty clearly. He finally comes to terms with what he's become and pretends to still be in denial so they take him to lobotomy. He gives his friend a nod before he finally walks away so he knows the truth and at the same time, so WE as an audience know the truth as well.
He was a psychopath from the beginning .. He become mad after he saw his Children killed by his wife and then he killed his wife ... Anyone will be psychopath if this happens to them ... So its simple ..though i had to watch it 3 times to fully understand it.
Inception ending appendix: Anyways, this is to add on the Inception ending. Christopher Nolan said that you could pick your own ending and yours is right, but there’s one more thing. The main guy Cobb, forgets that it is a dream or reality. In short, he doesn’t care if he is in a dream or not.
At 11:05 - 11:09, can anyone tell me the movie this clip is from. It looks pretty awesome, but I can't find any further info on it. Thanks in advance.. ;)
Mulholland Drive is very explainable. Naomi Watt's is the character we see late in the film, a washed up Lesbian actress whose Hollywood dream is crashing down all around her. She shoots herself and the entire first 2/3 of the film is the dream she has before passing on. In the dream her love who spurned her in real life is now completely reliant on her, the director who stole her lover is put through the ringer, the hitman she hired to kill her lover is a bumbling buffoon who couldn't possibly succeed in the hit she put out, the mafia controls Hollywood and picks who gets the roles therefore justifying her lack of success, and in the dream she is a Knockout actress that the casting directors love but the mafia conspiracy keeps her from getting the role. Also in the dream it starts to be about her career too much at one point and she has to course correct and refocus on her true love fantasy. The key represents her ultimate sin, putting the hit out, and the homeless trash person is her own darkside she is trying to repress in the dream.
I'm reminded of a line from the movie Waking Life. This movie was already explained to be a dream so anything that happened in it is open to interpretation, however, there is a line from a director whose name escapes me when he quotes two other famous directors talking about a movie, one was William Wyler. The other director's movie cost him two million and he said it was a dream within a dream, whereupon Wyler said to him "you just lost two million dollars." I see no virtue in making a movie ending so confusing that you need to have someone explain it to you.
The birdman one is wrong. He doesn't hallucinate its representative of him holding on to an idea of himself. Him jumping out of the window and flying isn't a hallucination either, its representative of his daughter seeing him free from the burdon of this previous idea.
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What other confusing movie endings should we feature next?
Enemy
Looper paper town
the fountain
Been a while since I've seen looper but he basically kills himself to stop the little kid from growing up to be the crime boss.
Magnolia
Film directing 101: Make a confusing ending and everyone will think you're a genius.
Well that's Nolan....
That is so funny and true
Directors don't do that.... writers do.... hmmmm
True.
These enigmatic storylines are just a cheap tactik to try and get people talking about the films
Pay attention to Inception... DiCaprio always has his wedding ring on in dreams. He wasnt wearing one in the final scene!!
Thats an old one
Nice I never caught that
Yup. I think it was Collative Learning with Rob Ager who made the point that the spinning top was his wife's totem, not Cobb's. So Nolan was playing a bit of THE PRESTIGE on the audience with a bit of sleight of hand.
Oh! That would make sense because you can't use someone else's totem right? That would make Cobb's totem his wedding ring. So, in the dream he has it on but outside of it he does not.
Either this means that he made it out and everything is cool or it means that Leo forgot to put the ring prop back on.
thanks for pointing it out, I was jsut about to go on a rant, that didn't eyplain crap, observant people knew that the top never was his totem to begin with, he explaines it ind etail, that you can neither tell anyone about it nor that you can use another one.
Half of these you just said "The director said the ending is whatever you think it is." You didn't explain shit.
Because these are "Lady and the Tiger" endings. The explanation is that there's no closure, no final answer, no definitive end. The story stops and you have to simply accept that that's all you get. They're not puzzles to be worked out, no hidden meaning to suss out. Zip, click. Done.
that's not entirely true, the only one like that was inception, and the last one was just meant to confuse you, the entire movie was meant to make no sense, there's meant to be no explanation
Stating that it 'is what you want it to be' IS explaining WHAT kind of ending it is.
It doesn't spoon feed you the actual supposed ending, it explains that it is MEANT to be ambiguous, therefore it IS an explanation...it just seems like it was NOT the sort of explanation you WANTED to hear.
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And the other half weren't confusing at all. It was just people who watched the movie overthinking the ending and coming up with weird theories.
um calm down sir i love it
The ending to birdman (at least the way I think of it) is that he did in fact successfully commit suicide, she looked down and saw his body, but as she was raising her eyes to the sky, she saw his soul. I think it adds more of a poetic feel to it
These enigmatic storylines are just a cheap tactik to try and get people talking about the films
when she looks up, she find those birds he saw
What about "The Room" I wanna know the hidden mean behind "Oh hi Mark!" :V
I'm fed up with this woruld!
I cant tell you it's confidential........Oh hi doggy
I did not hit her, I did noooot
And that laughing
Hannah Reed "I did naaaaht" FTFY.
I swear to god if I hear someone question the ending about Inception one more time Imma throw a shoe at them
I'm aware. What annoys me is people who still don't understand it. What's not to understand? Yes the ending is a little open ended and up for interpretation but overall the rest is pretty straight forward. So if I see it on another list of "ENDINGS FINALLY EXPLAINED!" or "FILM ENDINGS NO ONE UNDERSTANDS" I'm throwing a shoe at someone.
You have to admit that if you watched it for the first time then it is confusing if you don't take in what the film is trying to do . but I totally understand why you want to throw shoes haha
I fully understand cuevacuev13. That said, can you help me out with this? What's the ending of Inception all about anyway?
J De ..
That the beauty of movies and Music, different interpretations.
I get, at then end, he sees his kids.. And no longer cares.. He is with them regardless of dream or not..
I wish I didnt care...
cuevacuev13 Who throws a shoe? Honestly!
The Dark Knight was not complicated. Donnie Darko? Fight Club? Memento? Do movies that actually have answers for fucks sake.
Donnie Darko is pretty hard to explain in one video, but I agree that Dark Knight is so fucking easy to understand
Hobosdkcheese it was the dark knight rises, not the dark knight.
Donnie Darko is the only movie that has an ending without an actual explanation.
Hobosdkcheese donnie darko forsure man
I thought fight club and memento ending are self explanatory. But i agree that donnie darko ending a little bit confusing. I had to pause every text that show up and read it plus watch it 3 times to understand..
Inception is pretty easy to decipher.
1. Cobb wouldn't have seen his kids faces if it were a dream.
2. The top wouldn't have wobbled if it were a dream.
3. It's implied with the gun placed on the table that he shot himself to escape limbo and wake up on the plane along with Saito.
Also he never wears his ring in the real world but he always wears it in the dream and in the final scene he isn't wearing a ring so it's the real world
But what if it’s Mr Caines dreams so he can see whatever Caine wants him to ?
Sending Adraine or whatever her name is to make him dive deeper
If you were confused by the ending to batman you should probably just give up on life, it gets a lot harder then that.
*THAN* It never fails to amuse when someone puts down others intelligence, then can't figure out simple grammar.
"Then" makes absolutely no sense where you put it. Think about the words you use, grammar isn't the hardest thing on the planet to learn, life gets a lot harder than that.
Tiggerpup there was nothing about intelligence 😂 stfu you fuckwit 😂 he's talking about life being difficult 😂 you sir fucked up
You sound like someone who doesn't watch rick and morty...
Lmao right? A simple ending.
Doc Holliday lmao
The ending of Inception is the reality. In his dreams, he is wearing his wedding ring and in the real world he is not.
Every single one of these examples were either not explained or not confusing.
Lmao love this
Without a second thought "2001" is a must for confusing endings!
The Star Child at the end is the next stage of sentient evolution.
Yes, I do know that. I wanted to know why it wasn't on this list.
Then not confusing at all then?
For me no but for most yes. :-)
Yeah, 2001 should have been here instead of batman. But because people wanted to give batman more thought than it deserved, and it's more contemporary and on peoples' minds, or because this youtuber didn't see 2001 or was not able to explain it.
7:11 Only person that noticed that bird fall into the ocean? Even the timing is perfect!
If anyone was confused at the end of the dark knight rises, quit watching movies. That didn't need to be explained.
Blackhawks88 y'all pretentious movie buffs need to calm down
But jumped out where? Middle of the ocean? No one saw him? He swam back wearing the bat suit? It purposely left ambiguous. It shouldn’t of been but it was.
Well aren't you an uppity little twat smear?
He jumped of off helicopter with a nuclear bomb of 6 miles? And he survived. I want to believe he died. That makes more sense. Or he jumped next to that bridge.
@@dirgramsey6132 he can glide pretty far distances at pretty fast speeds
i love you guys!! and the only reason i'm this overflowing with joy is that you included movie titles and their exact spots on video. this is just professionalism. as a person who didn't watch most of these movies and is totally scared of getting any sort of spoilers, i thank you from the bottom of my heart
Vanilla Sky is my favorite movie. I literally ball my eyes out the minute he looks up at the vanilla sky and says “Let them up there read my mind” and then he looks down and Penelope Cruz is standing there so beautifully lit and the beautiful Sigur Ros song starts playing. Ahhh I’m getting chills just typing it out. If anyone needs ANY kind of explanation for Vanilla Sky, let me know. I can tell you everything. I’ve seen it at least 10x and the original just as much
Hey just seen this..n my mind really twisted with so many questions...who was sophie really is??is it Penelope or is it Cameroon?n y did sophie avoided david after accident???did sophie loved him or not??n who is ellie??y cameroon diaz hit him n though she said she thought he was a vandal she wasn't shocked to misunderstood him as a vandal looked like she was really intended to hit him..n so many:/
"Mulholland Drive" needs to be understood in relation to his previous film "The Straight Story" an uncharacteristically normal film with broad appeal. It's main audience was aging Americans and became incredibly popular in that demographic. This demographic is also rather uninterested in keeping up with every film genre and current film being made and their directors like the yonder generations are. They saw a nice movie by a nice man who also made a new movie. They were advertising "Mulholland Drive" this way.
I remember when I went to see it in my local theater, it was filled with nothing but whitehaired nice people thinking they were going to see another nice movie. When the film took its inevitable turn, I looked around and saw an entire theater filled with horrified people who all thought they had lost their minds. I suddenly realized what Lynch had done.
Bird Man's ending was her looking to heaven...
The bird man ending has to be the ending that has made me the happiest of all the movie endings in all my life, I love the way of how when Sam see’s her father flying through the sky, making her enter into a delusional reality that her father is still alive flying with super powers and making her bond with him even more stronger than before gives me a smile all the time whenever I think about it, it’s always makes me happy to see the fact that he has succeeded on making himself a real super hero to the eyes of his daughter and to see that she now is on the same direction he was
Why would that make you happy? He was delusional and he made his daughter delusional, he was also depressed and killed himself, so why's would you be happy that his daughter is on the same delusional path to kill herself
Birdman: She looks up because she know's he is dead and no longer suffering.
Not exactly. She looks up because he didn't compromise and overcame what his critics thought possible, within the movie.
Right.
@@uppercutgrandma4425 wrong.
My sister and I watched Vanilla Sky for years trying to understand it, We eventually gave up and I believe we made the right decision.
2001: A Space Odyssey had a pretty complicated ending.
Not if you listen to Kubrick's own explanation.
Mulholland Dr is about a woman (the blonde) who comes to Hollywood to make it as an actress. She is going to get a job in a movie but the director's lover (the brunette) gets it instead. She's disgruntled so she hires a hitman to kill the brunette. It turns out she loves the brunette and feels guilty so she kills herself. The first two thirds of the movie are her dreams that take place between when she pulls the trigger and when she dies. The last third is the back story (in the real world) of how the suicide induced dream came about.
Close to how I interpret that movie. P.S. Never tried to understand it though. I was merely re-watching it for the third time as an atmospheric lesbian movie, when suddenly understood what the movie is about. ))
The oniric world of David Lynch
good! You got really close, but mixed up some details from the dream sequence with the reality sequence. The blonde is a third rate actress, in love with the brunette. The brunette, chooses to marry a director for career purpouses. Blinded with jealousy, the blonde has the brunette killed, then, overtaken by guilt commits suicide. All the first part of the film is the blonde dream before she actually dies. Also there are to consider a ton of tie-ins with Twin Peaks mythos, but that would take a really long time
Now give us an explanation for Lost Highway. :)
Just adding some little but important details, there is the symbolism of the blue box, kind of representing the "portal" to the real word, and that the dream sequences is how she sees herself, as a good actress that is loved by everyone. The "no hay banda" part is directly saying that everything until the theater part was not real, so they decide to open the blue box and see the real, sad world.
I actually really appreciate the thought that went into the points this video made apprised to the other videos floating around. Much more detailed! Nice.
2017: Batfleck's the wave of the future.
2018: That's cute.
Beware the pattinson wave is coming
@@chaoseverywhere9885 after this trailer it sure is
It seems no one at Looper actually watched Mulholland Drive.
LOL! I was thinking the same. Masterpiece!
Agree phenomenal film, i saw it 8 times it actually gets better
How isn't 'Enemy' on this list?
Totally agree. Was completely lost.
split personality disorder cured by killing off one of the personalities. Similar to the plot of Identity.
i totally disagree on the dark knight and especially on bird man. About birdman, everything at the end scenes were perfect. The husband-wife, the father-daughter and the friend-to-friend relasionship are all better than ever. The same is true about the woman that wanted to destroy his play. Also all the paparatsi are all over him and finally the all known scene where he jumps out of the window and the girl watches him fly. Let me point out that she wasn't surprised or scared but she just smiled, totally what I would do if I watched my father fly. All that's true because it actually isn't, it's all in his mind. He was thinking how it would be if he had survived the shot but, news flash, he really killed himself on stage.
The Dark Knight Returns? Do you assume that your audience is made of a mentally challenged crowd?
How about you do 'Enemy' instead? You know, a movie in which you probably need an explanation to understand it's brilliance?
hi,
Kreddi The Dark Knight Rises not The Dark Knight Returns
Preach man. Sad to think people thought the Nolan movie endings on this list were confusing. I guess any open ended ending in a movie must be confusing.
rjarana, not "k pax", not "the tall man". i'm just saying.
They probably had to find movies they thought they could explain. Some movies were too hard for them.
no country for old men wasnt confusing and what they talked about wasnt the ending
unk77nown77 look at that fucking bone
yes. And "more violence"? Texas and US murder and gun crime rates are half of what they were a couple of decades ago. Shooting rates are way less than ever today, and even if the setting is 2005 that was way way down from the early 1990's so the sherrif thinking 2005 (novel) or 2010 (film) violence was more is absurd answer
Pretty sure no country for old men is 1980
Huh? I hope so , there better be part 2 the clear whole thing up.
thank you for remembering the incredible Vanilla Sky
Film snobs love to praise movies with ambiguous endings. "The writer/director is so brilliant! By not having a definitive ending, it allows you to create your own and challenges your perceptions!"
I'll let you in on a little secret: Writing satisfying endings is hard. So when an ending is left open/ambiguous, probably about 90% of the time it's because the writer/director couldn't think of a good way to end it, so they said "Fuck it. I'll just leave it open and people will think I'm some kind of genius."
There was an episode of the sitcom Still Standing where the parents find a bunch of pictures drawn by their youngest daughter. where none of the characters have hands. They agonize over what this symbolizes and when they finally ask her about it, they ask if it's because she feels powerless and that was a way to show it. The little girl shrugs and says "I'm just not good at drawing hands." The only difference with open film endings is that the people behind them are happy to take credit for it being some clever decision that they made.
please do a video explaining LOST the polar bear the big statue all of it.
The island is real, the church at the end is a timeless purgatory that they all meet up at at the end.
kronosx7 so they were alive on the island and all that really happened but they all died on the island and met up in the church after they died? nothing on the polar bear or statue and was that community real or no?
I don't remember the statue but the polar bear was an animal that escaped from the darpa initiative and they didn't all die on the island, remember the sideways reality where it kept flashing to scenes from them off the island? That all happened to, they all died at different points in their life but the purgatory is timeless so no matter when or where they died, they all showed up there at the same time.
Some of them died on the island for sure, Jack definitely did but some of them also got the plane working and escaped. Hurley became the islands caretaker so he probably did too.
kronosx7 I'm gonna have to watch the entire show again now lmao but thank you
I hate when movies end on a cliffhanger
If that happens it needs a sequel
Mulholland Drive honestly is UNDERSTANDABLE (with some scenes that just can be said to be "Lynch being Lynch"). Though he will NEVER explain any of his films, he did have that insert that came with the DVD's that were like (I believe 9...) "things to look for while watching Mulholland Drive'. Though everyone should take away what they got from it (and some got none...) I do think there is a pretty solid story there.
I'm shocked Total Recall (original) didn't make this list as my family and I still debate the ending to this day. "Blue skies on Mars..." C'mon!!
why did so many people find inception confusing??!!! It was beautiful and completely made sense if you paid attention. It's definitely not a movie to just watch from halfway in but if you actually pay attention it all makes sense as far as the ending goes, The ending was perfect it led us to believe that he died because his item was still moving but at the very end before cut to black the piece started to wiggle and slow down meaning he actually was still alive .
I love how the actor of birdman is also chosen for the character of vulture in spiderman
The actor of birdman and vulture is known for being good as a flying character, thats why he is in a lot of roles where he is flying.
You should check out the Peter Sellers movie Being There. Was always curious about that ending.
You guys really seem to be going in tge " screencrush " direction by recycling old videos and using new titles so you can continue to just keep pumping out as much content as possible. Quantity over quality I guess.
I absolutely love this channel but if you're going to keep recreating the same videos, I have no reason to keep coming back to it.
Inception - You never wake up into a new dream, you always just end up there mid stride.
Birdman - You'll notice the hing point at his "attempted" suicide after his play. Suddenly everything turns around. In reality, he is actually dead and everything from the stage suicide forward is him coming to terms with passing on. Seeing his daughter finally accepting him with all his "powers" puts him at rest, even if it is all in his mind before he dies.
Best way not to be confused by a movie ending. ...leave the theatre half way through the film..
I love Birdman so much. Never seen a film like this. It's not simple but not a hassle either very well written.
Not exactly confusing. They just kinda make you think.
Why did you repost this? I was thinking what did I get deja vu???
I'm surprised that 2001: A Space Odyssey wasn't on this list. Perhaps too many people would be thinking...never mind the ending! Explain the whole film!!
(But I love the film.)
Gus Venables then why bring it up?
Right?!
To look for "an explanation " in the some of these movies is like to ask for an explanation for a musical piece. Movies are not just about the story, they also take us to an emotional journey.
Mulholland Drive is one of my favorites. It shakes the viewer, and seeks to disturb. The confusion about what is happening adds to it. Like looking at a Goya painting, or at Guernica after being told your mom is dead.
Musical pieces don't have a plot. And most people prefer their movies with a plot or at least a coherent journey.
Didnt yall already make this?
no fucking 2001: a space odysey? literally the most confusing movie of all time since it came out 50 years ago?
didn't that movie come out 16 years ago?
Magic Bagel what? no!
lol, 2017 - 16 = 2001. He was making a joke.
yeah but did anyone ever "explain" it ? I mean I don't think there is any explanation of this film, you just experience it, you watch it again and again it's like a mushroom trip
Yea there's a supposed Explination by Kubrick. So the Man lives the rest of his life in that Room, that Room is basically a Menagerie or a Zoo for a Human. The Art being French Renaissance but wrong, kind of like a Zoo enclosure. He's being Kept there by Beings of Pure Light and then when he dies he is reborn and sent back to Earth as the Strarchild. That's supposed to be Kubricks Idea. Idk if that's 100% true tho...
Cloud Atlas?
Although, when I watched that we didn't read the synopsis and thought it would be fun to watch something we didn't know anything about. We picked the wrong movie to do that to. Waited the whole movie to figure out what was happening, and we ended up more lost than your missing sock.
If u understand about the Eastern religious mythos, it won't be hard to understand what Cloud Atlas is trying to say... It's about consciousness in a cyclical reality bounded by flesh, (Reincarnation)...
"...some leave their last scene amBIGuous to keep audiences THINKing..."
The narrator's odd inflections are unsettling me. I mean, I'm Australian, so it's not the accent. It's the way he stops and starts and emphasises unexpected parts of words.
interstellar ?, drive ?
DRIVE = he dies doing the one thing he can do: driving.
Interstellar wasn't confusing, just silly. Overhyped trash.
Baychimo
sure u keep telling urself that
The only confusing thing about it, was the fact that most of the "science" in it, was complete trash. Plus the whole plot, of course. Which part of the movie didn't you understand?
The science of Interstellar wasn't "trash". Actually it wasn't anything too special either, typical relativistic tropes you'll find in a lot of films where the director wants to play smart. Sure the whole wormhole and tesseract thing wasn't science but since we don't know what actually happens in singularities you can give it the benefit of the doubt. What WAS trash is the fact that after 2.5 hours of full scientific nerdgasm the movie is conveniently tied up using the card: "the power of love is the essence of the universe", which is utter wank
I enjoyed the info==Thanks.
i will rant if shutter island isnt on this list...
GoofyWillows ...
is it ranting time
GoofyWillows
Exactly what I was thinking.
isn't that hard to understand
Why? Because you need to watch the same damn list in every related video you watch?
Here goes The Real Birdman explanation. Are you ready? Movie start showing him levitating and asking how we get here? But before that we see flaming meteor in the sky - thats the real begining. Then he just going back to work as usual. Mind work is not over. In this point all happening in his mind alone, he has already died - drowned in waters after medusas killed him. He did not get out of it. He is now working out his relationship especially with his daughter who he did not see - his biggest regret. In mean time his egoistic tendencies keeps coming back at him and distract him again as he fight with them all the time. He can't leave without sorting things out. Was it the great spectacle, the great performance on the stage the meaning of his life? No.
Haven't you asked yourself if what we see is real? Was it not curious to you that he change scenery like in magic dream? From one place to another. One moment he is in bar talking with his biggest critic, he go out make few steps open next door and found his daughter in some place just there as if waiting for him. They both bashed his ego, helped him to realize he is not the centre of the universe. That he does not exist. They inspire him to look deeper for others to drop his tendencies. Even the scene where he shot himself in the head turns out to be ... he shot himself in the nose? Really? You still think its real? And when he get off the bandages mask that peculiar resambed birdman mask what we see? A purple nose? Thats it? Wheres gunshot wound from yesterday? Why he got any nose for that matter? The answer is: It's unreal already. Its all happening in his own mind. And when he get out of window, he flyed out and finally let go, droped self importance, and his daughter sees it. In this very moment we see what he see, as he finally percive her and see her happy. Thats liberates him.
Lynch films arent supposed to be explained but felt.
Wasn't this video already uploaded by Looper a while ago? I recognized it because I saw the scene from Birdman as the thumb nail, the explanation to the ending is the only one that stuck with me after it and I still remember it without even seeing the movie. Idk I could have future vision or be insanely high but I need to know if this video is a re-upload.
“Bat fleck is the future” lol 😅
I don’t know why that’s funny. It was an accurate statement. Batfleck had starring roles in two different films and a cameo in a third one.
I love your explanation for mulholland drive. All David Lynch movies and side projects are like that. Well maybe not Straight Story, but i think he did that movie to throw his fans a curve ball.
What about Donnie Darko?????
Pop.Up I think most people are more confused about the entire movie than just the ending. It's a strange movie, but anyone who really wants to know can look up enough of the director and writers explanations.
The only good thing about Dark Knight Rises is that I get to make this joke: My favorite part of DKR is when Batman gives Catwoman a pearl necklace...
I never understood any of Barton Fink.
So sorry.
rich evans lives in the walls
okrajoe Sucks man that movie was Dank as fujck
I remember I was really confused by the ending to The Brady Bunch Movie! I mean...sure, they have the $20,000...but it was too late. The house was already up for auction. So Dittmeyer could simply outbid them!
I was all so confusing!
“Batffleck is the wave of the future” Well... that comment didn’t age well did it?
I really didn't get the Vanilla Sky ending comment. Can soemone explain?
I thought the ending was what was explained... everything just happening in his head, he making a decision...brought back to life... is this wrong?
Nope, you`re right. Nothing confusing about that movie.
Half of the movies in this list are not confusing at all.
I loved vanilla sky it affected me like no other film other than donnie darko
Your thumbnail is a picture of Gollum, but I didn’t see any of the movies from JRR Tolkien’s books.
Predistination..hands down
experiments in time travel gone horribly horribly wrong. Look up time travel paradoxes, best explanation is that, we ( humans) cannot time travel with out avoiding extremely disturbing and perplexing paradoxes that should leave even our sharpest minds to just let the whole thing go, we just are not made for it. That movie is a very good fictional example of why.
With Predestination it wasn't so much the ending that confused me. But how did it all begin. How could that impossible story of started if he was his own parents?
+binary day that's the point of the entire film. Predestination is about the bootstrap paradox, to explain it the best I can; Say a young man is given a gold pocket watch by an old woman, later in this man's life he builds a time machine where he goes back in time so he can give the watch back to the woman when she was younger, this would mean the watch has no origin and isn't logically possible, making the watch a paradox.
it wasn't that confusing. the part where Jane and John met and fizzle bomber's death pretty much explained that his/her life was the perfect orchestra of a never-ending loop. connect the dots and you'll find the possibility of the loop.
How is it not confusing, explain pls.
I loved the film, thought it was really clever, how he designed everything in his life, how everything that happened was of his own making.
But what is never explained is how it all started. How was it possible he existed. With Saccharin3D idea of the watch, it could have had another beginning, that became part of a loop. Someone else could have given the woman the watch, she gives it to the time traveler and he travels back to give it to the woman, who then starts the loop by giving it to the time traveler. But with Predestination, there is no other way it could have ever begun. Because he is both parents and the child.
You forget one critical element of "No Country": The speech Ed Tom has with Ellis where he ponders what has happened to him, and whether he is man enough for this job in this violent world anymore. Ellis recounts a tale that took place almost 100 years earlier, depicting the violent end of a family member who drowned in his own blood after being shot by desperados. He ends by essentially telling Ed Tom that the world has always been violent, but that it isn't going to wait on Ed Tom to figure it out. "That's vanity," Ellis states.
So while Ed Tom may now realize he is too old to continue being the guardian of the light, the world will move on without him, violent as it ever was, and will give the old man no country to pasture.
No "The Shining"???
I'm pretty sure that was just a mind fuck that Kubrick wanted to put in
The Shinning wasn't that hard to understand
It doesnt end like the book , thats why is a weird end.
The solution is to stop watching book adaptations with the expectation that they will simply film the events in the book.
Kubrik Stated very early that this is not a gonna be the book
So the No Country For Old Men dream - here's my take. I think Tommy Lee's character is thinking about death - specifically about his own death. He does mention first that his father died young, and that he is the older man. In the dream the two of them are riding towards the mountain pass and the father passes Tommy by on their way to the pass. Tommy says that he wasn't told, but simply knew his father was going on ahead to start a camp fire for warmth, and then also describes the white torch being carried by his father.
The mountain pass itself is death, or the place people go when they die - and because the Father only lived about 30 years, he reached the pass sooner than Tommy - both in the sense that he died many years earlier in the story, but also in the sense that he completed life's journey quicker and in the metaphor his horse moves faster.
Tommy is therefore thinking about what it will be like to meet his father again, something I think he is closer to doing than he lets on.
Danger Dolan, is that you???
Hell yes, it is!
Mulholland Drive is easy to figure out. The first part is a dream by Naomi's character. The second half is her reality which includes hallucinations.
Yeah, I'm surprised this video does such a cop-out on that one. The film is actually pretty clear once you figure that part out. The first half is the idealized dream world of a woman who felt betrayed and used in the real world.
Yeah yeah yeah.... ending-up-to-audience's-own-interpretation-rubbish again and again.... just admit it - laziness, insufficient budget, trying to look witty or deep, ran out of idea, utilizing "abstracts" as veil for whatever I mentioned previously... seriously man, if everything requires audiences' own interpretation then you better give us a part of your pay check! Ambiguous endings are so super overuse and abused! Dear Mr Directors, We audience wants to see YOUR vision and world within your work! If films just want to act-smart and always using ambiguous ending then why the hell do I even want to pay and watch a work thats supposedly YOUR vision?!
Tara World I’d like to make up my own ending for a movie
You want some literal endings, they aren't that hard to find. Change the 'we' for 'I' in your diatribe, buddy.
Regarding Birdman, I agree with you that he successfully committed suicide, but Sam didn't hallucinate seeing her father fly away, because that entire scene didn't happen. He's dead, and this is his happy dying dream about what's in store for his future. His delusion, not hers. Right before the final scene, we see a few images that mirror those shown at the very start (something burning up on entering orbit, etc.), and it serves as a start and end point of sorts. So why does the scene play after he shot himself instead of right at the end of the movie? Because it's not signifying the end of the movie, but the end of his life. When the movie starts it's a way to show personally significant yet abstract memories from Birdman's past, and when it occurs again it's his life flashing before his eyes as the curtain falls.
Did I time travel? -laughing emoji- Cuz im pretty sure I watched this video a few months ago...
an interesting theory i read about Birdman was that Riggan actually did kill himself on stage. The whole film appeared to be taken in one shot, but after he kills himself on stage, continuity is broken and other shots are edited in. The continuity is broken as Riggan's life ended. What that final scene was, in essence, was a fantasy or perhaps "heaven" where everything is how Riggan wanted: daughter's love and acceptance and world-wide fame.
Three words
The Bee Movie
It's actually two words: Bee Movie
@@Davidovar34 yh but he used 3 words lol
Lost Highway explained would be great!
What's really cool about this movie is that the mystery man character is supposed to be Fred's jealousy personified and if you listen to the conversation they have at the party scene, it can be read as a man talking to his own sense of jealousy. "How'd you get into my house?" "You invited me."
Surprised the Life of Pi wasn't on here. It ended with a question. Was the story of fantasy, survival, and self becoming real? Or was the story of logic and survival real? It really makes you think because scientists don't want to here religion involved into logic, while religious folk understand science but put beliefs and faith into perspective and defy all logic.
Life of Pie wasn't exactly confusing. The ending part actually was brilliant. The hero told an amazing story but when asked by his interviewer whether the animals that supposedly shared the life boat with him really were animals or rather animal manifestations of actual people that had survived with him he told a far more believable version of the story with people. At the beginning of the movie the protagonist believes that the animals in his father's zoo have souls and are sapient and sentient beings, including the tiger. He wants the tiger and the other animals to be what he believes they are. Divine creations. His father quickly demonstrates what a vicious and dangerous animal a tiger is. The boy still can't let go of his belief that animals aren't different from people and that influences his story.
The boy also struggles with which faith he should accept and follow. He switches faiths three times I believe and finally settles on Muslim. This is another clue to the amazing story he told. He chose that one much like his faith.
The paradise island that just magically appeared is another clue. Even he doubts it was really real.
When finally asked which of the two stories is the right one he asks the interviewer which one he prefers. If my memory serves me right the interviewer found the amazing one with the tiger way more colorful and memorable. "And so it is with God" the protagonist concludes.
To me this is a clear case of what attracts people to religion. That everything they are and experience all have some higher meaning and is way more magic than just the cold, logic world of science.
As such the protagonist told a "better story" that still was a fabrication and a lie. Much like religion.
If it confuses you, try reading the book. The truth is a little clearer.
I absolutely loved Vanilla Sky. Watching it with the commentary was great too.
ironic this movie on the list, because the ending actually is the only thing not confuse about this movie
What about Shutter Island? The ending remained a mystery. You don't know if Leonardo was really a cop or a psychopath.
The ending is explained pretty clearly. He finally comes to terms with what he's become and pretends to still be in denial so they take him to lobotomy. He gives his friend a nod before he finally walks away so he knows the truth and at the same time, so WE as an audience know the truth as well.
IMO, he was a cop with severe depression and deep guilt over his children's murders and the fact he killed his wife.
Da house at da end of da street is so confusin
He was a psychopath from the beginning .. He become mad after he saw his Children killed by his wife and then he killed his wife ... Anyone will be psychopath if this happens to them ... So its simple ..though i had to watch it 3 times to fully understand it.
A mystery xD.
i loved the explanation on mulholland dr
Birdmans ending gives me the chills when im just thinking about it. it is PERFECT!
Inception ending appendix: Anyways, this is to add on the Inception ending. Christopher Nolan said that you could pick your own ending and yours is right, but there’s one more thing. The main guy Cobb, forgets that it is a dream or reality. In short, he doesn’t care if he is in a dream or not.
ugh the birdman ending explanation is wayyyyy too literal. I saw it as a surreal ending that perfectly tied together the themes of the film.
At 11:05 - 11:09, can anyone tell me the movie this clip is from. It looks pretty awesome, but I can't find any further info on it. Thanks in advance.. ;)
TECH SUPPORT!!!!!!
the last one is like when you are geting pounded in a CR battle and your friend says "how are you going to defend that?" and you say "Not defend"
Emma stone looking up at the ending i thought could be seeing his father go to heaven
Mulholland Drive is very explainable. Naomi Watt's is the character we see late in the film, a washed up Lesbian actress whose Hollywood dream is crashing down all around her. She shoots herself and the entire first 2/3 of the film is the dream she has before passing on. In the dream her love who spurned her in real life is now completely reliant on her, the director who stole her lover is put through the ringer, the hitman she hired to kill her lover is a bumbling buffoon who couldn't possibly succeed in the hit she put out, the mafia controls Hollywood and picks who gets the roles therefore justifying her lack of success, and in the dream she is a Knockout actress that the casting directors love but the mafia conspiracy keeps her from getting the role. Also in the dream it starts to be about her career too much at one point and she has to course correct and refocus on her true love fantasy. The key represents her ultimate sin, putting the hit out, and the homeless trash person is her own darkside she is trying to repress in the dream.
In Birdman he could have just been standing on a ledge.
I'm reminded of a line from the movie Waking Life. This movie was already explained to be a dream so anything that happened in it is open to interpretation, however, there is a line from a director whose name escapes me when he quotes two other famous directors talking about a movie, one was William Wyler. The other director's movie cost him two million and he said it was a dream within a dream, whereupon Wyler said to him "you just lost two million dollars." I see no virtue in making a movie ending so confusing that you need to have someone explain it to you.
This is a fucking repost. I'm so tired of this channel reuploading the same videos over and over again. Unsubbing :(
Yeah, that's exactly how I saw Birdman's ending. I'm not that quick, so I was surprised so many people didn't get it.
"Movie endings explained!"
"Make up your own mind!"
Disliked.
The birdman one is wrong. He doesn't hallucinate its representative of him holding on to an idea of himself. Him jumping out of the window and flying isn't a hallucination either, its representative of his daughter seeing him free from the burdon of this previous idea.
Anyone else only watch this because they thought from the thumbnail it'd be about "Amazing Spider-man 2"?
i have one of those spinning tops and it has inception printed on the bottom.