call it
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i got here the same way the coin did
welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
confusing movie endings explained comp
has some serious problems that he's
tried to bury down there and i'm not
about to just open my mind to someone
like that for this list we'll be
attempting to explain various movie
endings that left viewers frustrated and
confounded naturally this entails a lot
of spoilers what do you make of these
endings let us know in the comments
below
number 10 no country for old men adapted
nearly word for word from cormac
mccarthy's novel no country for old men
is basically an anti-thriller look i
need to know what i stand to win
everything
how's that you just tend to win
everything call it it defies most of the
genres conventions in the end the hero
fails to catch the bad guy and retires
out of frustration in the movie's iconic
final scene bell recounts a dream he had
to his wife how'd you sleep i don't know
had dreams
well you got time for him now
anything
interesting there always is to the party
concerned to some this was a
frustratingly anti-climactic ending but
it's all in keeping with the story's
themes bell can only find comfort in his
dreams with a false impression of his
long-dead father his use of then i woke
up seems to suggest that he realizes the
falsity of the dream for belle there is
no comfort to be found in the cold and
dark reality i knew that whenever i got
there he'd be there
then i woke up number nine enemy before
he became famous for his sci-fi epics
denis villeneuve directed a canadian
drama called enemy in the movie's famous
provocative ending adam goes to tell
helen that he's leaving only to find a
gigantic spider in her place
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the spider cowers against the wall and
adam's size and disappointment the
spider is a symbol of adam's commitment
or more accurately his lack thereof he's
stuck in helen's metaphorical webs so he
sees her as a creature that generates
literal webs are you lying to me
i
you're lying to me but even more
important is the spider's reaction it
recoils in fear because helen discovers
the startling truth of adam's infidelity
i i really don't know what you're
talking about
i think you know adam realizes that he
has hurt helen and that he cannot commit
so he sighs and resign defeat
number eight life of pie this movie is
based on yann martell's novel of the
same name which was the recipient of the
esteemed man booker prize for fiction
and then richard parker my fierce
companion the terrible one who kept me
alive
disappeared forever from my life the
ending is ripped straight from the novel
presenting two different scenarios one
scenario is what we saw with pie in the
animals in the second and arguably more
realistic scenario the animals are
replaced with humans so
the hyena is the cook
the sailor is the zebra
your mother is the orangutan
and
you're
the tiger the older pie then asks the
writer which story he prefers and both
he and the insurance agents like the
animal version better the movie isn't
about which version is right but how the
viewer became enraptured by an
imaginative story it teaches us about
the power of faith and believing in the
improbable even if a more realistic
outcome is presented so which story do
you prefer
the one with the tiger number seven the
king of comedy martin scorsese's the
king of comedy bears many similarities
to taxi driver one of the most obvious
is the ambiguous and dream-like ending
he reported that he had been spending
his time writing his memoirs which had
been purchased by a leading new york
publishing house for in excess of one
million dollars rupert is sent to prison
following his crimes but this isn't what
we see what we get instead is rupert's
big comeback as he writes a popular
memoir and becomes a successful comedian
said he had used his stay at allenwood
to sharpen his material he said that he
and his people were weighing a number of
attractive offers and that he looked
forward to resuming his show business
career unfortunately we don't know if
this actually happened or not however it
likely occurred in rupert's head many
clues have been brought forward that
seem to suggest its fantastical nature
this includes rupert's past daydreams
throughout the movie his prison-like
suit the curtain that looks like prison
bars and the bizarre way the announcer
keeps repeating his
introduction ladies and gentlemen let's
hear it for rupert pumpkin
wonderful rupert pumpkin ladies and
gentlemen rupert wants to be famous and
it cost him his freedom
number six tenet viewers need an
evidence board and some strings to make
sense of tenet even for christopher
nolan this one is out there it's best to
get to the nasty part before i care one
way or the other we learned that neil
was actually recruited by a future
version of the protagonist so the
protagonist in turn caused the events of
the movie to transpire hey you never did
tell me who recruited you neil i only
guessed by now
you did protagonist then realizes that
he began the tenet organization and he
kills priya before she can kill cat
essentially the movie's events were
preordained before they even began as
the protagonist set everything up and
knew exactly what would happen the
protagonist was pulling the strings the
entire time and he didn't even know it
darn time manipulation i told you you'd
have to start looking differently at the
world
i have to tie up the loose ends that was
going to be your job then whose was it
my
i realized i wasn't working for you
we've both been working for me number
five donnie darko if this list is any
indication jake gyllenhaal loves him
some confusing endings like tenet donnie
darko deals with the manipulation of
time philosophy of time travel
what is this
donnie learns that he was supposed to
die in the plane crash and that his
survival has opened up an alternate
timeline this alternate universe is
throwing the very space-time continuum
off its axis and the time loop needs to
be closed in order to save the world and
in order for the vessel to travel
through time it's got to find a porthole
or in this case a wormhole or well could
these portals
could these portals just appear at
anywhere anytime i think that's highly
unlikely and in order for it to be
closed donnie has to die in the plane
crash so that's exactly what he does
donnie travels back in time and
sacrifices himself for the good of the
universe allowing himself to be crushed
by the falling jet engine did you know
him
no
number 4 blade runner the ambiguity of
blade runner is compounded by multiple
factors all those
moments will be lost
in time for starters like 8 million
versions of the movie exist there's also
the fact that neither harrison ford nor
ridley scott can agree on its meaning
ford believes that deckard is a human
however scott has said that deckard is a
replicant she doesn't know
she's beginning to suspect i think
suspect how can it not know what it is
that seems to be the end of the argument
as scott directed the film this is made
even more evident in the director's cut
from 1992 which shows deckard receiving
a paper unicorn from eduardo gaffe while
most of the evidence points to deckard
being a replicant the ending continues
to be debated to this day it's too bad
she won't live
but then again who does
number three mulholland drive people get
headaches trying to figure out david
lynch he's just one of those directors
that places atmosphere and tone over
straightforward storytelling i can see
his face
i hope that i never see that face ever
outside of a dream in the final act of
mulholland drive lynch introduces the
characters of diane and camilla who are
carbon copies of betty and rita the
leading theory is that most of
mulholland drive takes place inside
diane's adult mind you sure you want
this
more than anything in this world she
imagines a better life for herself one
in which she's happy and fresh-faced
rather than washed up and jaded in the
real world diane hires a hitman to kill
camilla and when this is done she shoots
herself out of grief the end
when it's finished you'll find this
where i told you
number 2 inception christopher nolan
appears again only this time the answer
is a little more straightforward for
inception nolan deals with the
subjectivity of reality and this theme
is perfectly explored in the final
seconds of the movie she had locked
something away something deep inside her
a truth that she had once known but
i chose to forget dom cobb returns home
to his children and spins the top to
determine if he's dreaming or not but
when he catches a glimpse of his kids he
abandons the top and runs to them
we don't know if cobb is dreaming or not
but that isn't the point the point is
that cobb intentionally chooses to
abandon his totem dream or not cobb is
deciding what is real for him you're
just a shade
you're just a shade of my real wife
and you're the best that i could do but
i'm sorry you're just not good enough
his reality is entirely subjective and
he's deciding to live in a reality with
his children
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number one 2001 a space odyssey everyone
knows the ending to this film even those
who haven't actually seen it open the
pod bay doors hell
i'm sorry dave
i'm afraid i can't do that bowman is
pulled into some sort of
interdimensional vortex quickly turns
into an old man and then reaches for the
monolith before transforming into a
giant space fetus watching over earth
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it sounds like stanley kubrick directed
this thing on acid but there is some
meaning behind it the entire movie is
about the evolution of humanity and this
ending explores that concept further by
interacting with the alien monolith
bowman takes the next step in human
evolution and is reborn as the star
child the star child is then sent back
to earth to help its citizens transcend
and unlock the next great evolutionary
step in their biology i am putting
myself to the fullest possible use
which is all i think that any conscious
entity can ever hope to do
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