Question about the ending - MAJOR SPOILER!
***Don't read if you don't want to hear about the ending***
I saw this film last night for the first time after finding it on a list of Harmony Korine's favorite French films. I had never heard about it before but I found it enormously beautiful, mesmerizing, and touching.
I have a question about the ending, though.
Before we find out Pierre was shot, we see that he was apparently cured from his vertigo which was a symptom of his war trauma. But the police reports that he was about to kill the girl with his knife just when they arrived on the scene and that's why they had to kill him.
If this is what actually happened, I wondered that if he was "cured" from his vertigo, i.e. overcome his war trauma, would this not also mean that he was healed and not attack the girl as previously suggested by his girlfriend Madeleine's friend.
I would be interested in hearing other opinions. I really loved this film.