I found it hilarious that Joan Crawford's character had to narrate the entire movie at the end, in case the audience didn't understand. Wonder whether it was necessary back then.
shareI don't think it was necessary, back then for this movie per say. I loved the twist. But, it is something how movies nowadays will end, leaving you to imagine what happens next. I personally hate those type of movies, the you don't know whether they survived or died, just tell us!!
shareI consider this last scene with Joan Crawford explaining things to her brother important because at the end she says she is going to help her daughter. The explanation sets this last bit up. The viewer is taken through it and then hears her say she will help her daughter, be there for her. Her brother expresses shock and concern which I think some of the viewers might have already been feeling after her "narration" of the events. But I think some viewers let go of those feelings and supported her decision to help her daughter. This was a much better ending and left you feeling sympathy for the murderer.
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If you have watched the documentary on the making of the movie (or read the trivia section) it is said that the ending is completely tagged on by Joan Crawford's demand because she doesn't want the movie ends with Carol going Berserk but to remind audience that *she* is the star of the movie.
For me the added ending about Lucy helping her daughter doesn't ring true at all. Throughout the movie Lucy is emotionally fragile if not down right unstable, after all she just got released from mental asylum after twenty years, but all of sudden she started acting like a doctor. It is ludicrous to see Lucy explaining her daughter's "condition" when all along she is the one who needs outpatient care. I don't mind a movie ends with someone explaining the whole story if it is done right, Psycho is one comes to mind. Of course Joan's ego won't let anyone else but herself to have the last words in the movie.
Explaining the behaviour of a character is in a lot of movie endings. The worst type is where there is a group of characters all chipping in with their pieces of the explanation, as the camera moves from one to another in turn.
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