I just saw this the other day, but I happened to look away during the last narration and missed the subtitles. What did they say?
Did he leave the life of crime behind and disappear?
Did he turn himself in?
Did he kill himself?
WHAT HAPPENED???
If memory serves me correctly, the narrator reports that he is caught and executed.
shareThat´s correct. Not exactly a happy ending, is it? ;)
shareYes, just watched it and Caught, Convicted and Executed . . . The Fin ( All wound up in 15 secs )~ T
shareTalk about tacked on...unbelievably rushed and disappointing, after such a promisin slow burner.
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I think that's the point: it's anticlimactic, antispectular, antiromantic. The hero doesn't go with a bang, he just disappears, without any glory. In a way it's close to the realistic portayal of criminals in The friends of Eddie Coyle, starring Robert Mitchum and also released by Criterion.
shareFantastic ending and so brutal, for the audience. After all the twists and turns in Abel's escapades we learn that he was caught and executed just like that! I think this is, as another poster suggested, very realistic and I loved the ending.
Prior to these last few seconds, after Abel dismissed the sole loyal partner-in-crime, there was a shot of the handsaw hanging on the wall with other tools. I felt sure he was going to kill himself ... he didn't but as the final naration announces his fate we see him walking blithely with others on a Parisian street. I think he wanted to be caught having lost everything.
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