There are Movies that always either end with a ‘and-they-lived-happily-ever-after’ or tragic ends; then there are movies which ends abruptly- giving the audience a chance to ‘imagine’ an ending themselves- which again sparks hundreds of different endings in fan-fictions.
Here is a list of such confusing movie endings!
1. Inception, 2010:
Back in LA, Cobb spins his totem on the kitchen counter to determine if he’s dreaming, then decides instead to go outside and play with his estranged kids, leaving it spinning. . . and the camera cuts!
Explanation: Finally reunited with his children, he’s happy to live in ignorance. but that the spinning top is not Cobb’s totem, it’s his wife Mal’s, so essentially the top’s actions don’t mean anything one way or the other. Cobb only wears his wedding ring when he’s in dream worlds, not in the real world – some theories suggest the ring is his real totem, and the fact he’s not wearing it in the final scene places the ending in reality.
2. Planet of the Apes, 2001:
Leo escapes the Planet Of The Apes in his ship, travels through the time vortex and touches down on Earth… but all is not as before. Instead of the Lincoln Monument, sitting in the grand marble chair is monkey overlord Thade.
Explanation: The reason this Earth is now run by monkey and not man is because the time vortex works in reverse – so the monkeys on the Oberon at the beginning crash-landed on Earth thousands of years in the past, giving them time to dominate the planet by the time Wahlberg got home.
3. Interstellar, 2014:
Matthew Mc Conaughey’s intrepid explorer survives a trip down a wormhole and emerges from the other side, where he’s rescued by the human race, who have long since left Earth and set up camp on Cooper Station.
Explanation: The “fifth-dimensional space” at the center of the wormhole is a construct placed there in the future, so Coop can get the message to his young daughter via binary code. Once he’s tossed out the other side the mere seconds translated to around 90 years to the rest of the world. Murph, who eventually received her father’s messages via her childhood watch on how to solve the gravity equation, was able to help transport the human race off-planet to a conical space station that was eventually named after her. When she’s finally reunited with her father, now younger than she is; Coop then jets off to be reunited with her, now aware that time has passed differently on the other side.
4. No Country for Old Men, 2007:
Sheriff Ed Tom Bell fails in his mission to arrest criminal Anton Chigurh and bring in outlaw Llewelyn Moss alive. He starts recanting two dreams to Ellis, the first about losing some money that his father loaned him, the second about following his father on a horse carrying a horn of fire. The dream, and the film, ends abruptly.
Explanation: Sheriff Bell spends the entire movie in despair about the state of modern society, but as Ellis says at the end of the movie, things were no better in the generations before them: “You can’t stop what’s coming.“
5. Shutter Island, 2010
Teddy Daniels is told that Shutter Island’s missing mental patient, Andrew Laeddis, is actually him; he’s been allowed by hospital staff to live out his delusion of being a US Marshal in an attempt to free him from it. Despite showing signs he understands, Teddy/Andrew then regresses, blowing his last chance at normal rehabilitation and booking him a swift appointment at the lobotomy clinic.
Explanation: Andrew knew his alter-ego Teddy was a creation of his own making, and that the guilt he suffered after murdering his wife was enough for him to engineer a lobotomy, finally putting himself at rest.
Source: Yahoo Movies
By: Archa Dave
