Can anyone interpret the end? (Spoilers, duh) - Tristana (1970) Discussion

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I thought of it as a way for Buñuel to remind us about what an innocent woman Tristana was before, and the contrast to how cold and cynical she has become. In short: a reminder and a summary :)
I still can't figure out the meaning of her dreams about Don Lope's head in the bell, though. Ideas?

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[–] SeisCinemaSeis 14 years ago

I still can't figure out the meaning of her dreams about Don Lope's head in the bell, though. Ideas?

According to Buñuel himself he had a recurrent dream where he used to see his head severed from his body. So the entire scene may be a nod to his dream.
Plus we can understand those dreams as a "wishful-thinking" by Tristana, who despised (although also admired to some extent), Don Lope. Therefore the "dream" is the projection of her desires: Tristana wanted him to die.

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[–] mCihhh 10 years ago

She didn't murdered him, she only watched him die and didn't call for help. Even if she'd called, the doctor wouldn't arrive in time to do anything.

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[–] udippel 9 years ago

Wrong, plain wrong.

She did not actively murder him, but denying him the assistance of the medical doctor and especially her opening the window with the cold of the snow outside creeping in, exactly until he is dead and stiff would clock up a few years in prison for her in any civilised country.

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[–] franzkabuki 12 years ago

Whatever the precise reasoning behind its presence, it looked creepy as sh-t - especially with the way it was lit, swinging in and out of the darkness. The entire ending, 15-20 minutes, was simply outstanding, of course.

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

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[–] bcrumpacker 12 years ago

he's a ding dong daddy!

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[–] lucasmartins 11 years ago

after I watched the ending, I was intrigued by the last scene in the flashback: the scene of Tristana kissing Don Lope just before they had sex for the first time.

besides the interpretation of the lost innocence of Tristana, i think the whole movie after that point could be a dream.
Tristana dreamt meeting Horacio, a young artist, like a escape to her prison. and even the "bad part" of dream: the lost of her leg could be a metaphor for her repressed sexuality. and the ending of the dream is the death of Lopez, that she always wished for.

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[–] vinidici 11 years ago

By that method of interpretation there's no such thing as straightforward storytelling in film / TV narrative and EVERYTHING we've ever seen on-screen has innumerable and incomprehensible hidden layers of depth or means something altogether different than how we perceive it.

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[–] lucasmartins 11 years ago

I was trying to make a point here, and you came here and say something like that, that EVERYTHING has depth and incomprehensible hidden layers? what's next, you're going to say to me, "Transformers" has this depth?

I did not said that! I observed some signals to make my point, the final scenes were this signals.

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[–] dropkick23 8 years ago

By that method of interpretation there's no such thing as straightforward storytelling in film / TV narrative and EVERYTHING we've ever seen on-screen has innumerable and incomprehensible hidden layers of depth or means something altogether different than how we perceive it.

So?

There is nothing wrong with multiple layers of storytelling.

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[–] doughazelrigg 10 years ago

It represents, by way of a quick montage, her evolution from an innocent young woman to someone basically capable of murder (albeit a passive act)...it also shows how Don Lupe's weakness for women culminated in his own demise

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[–] udippel 9 years ago

it is not quite in reverse order. Actually, the movie starts with the 2 women walking in from left to right, and in the end they walk right to left. So they are walking out of the movie, or my preferred interpretation: They were coming from her mother's funeral and are going to his funeral. It also is the end of the path taken from left to right in the beginning to a new situation outside of that story.

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[–] mdonln 9 years ago

udippel says > it is not quite in reverse order. Actually, the movie starts with the 2 women walking in from left to right, and in the end they walk right to left. So they are walking out of the movie, or my preferred interpretation: They were coming from her mother's funeral and are going to his funeral. It also is the end of the path taken from left to right in the beginning to a new situation outside of that story.

Really, where did you see that? The scene you describe with the two women walking from right to left in the end wasn’t in the version I saw (TCM March 30, 2015). Are you sure you didn’t imagine it?

I hated this movie so much I only gave it a 3 out of 10 and that was a stretch. It took me several weeks to watch it because I could only take a few minutes of it at a time; very small dozes. Then finally I said I have to do this and forced myself to watch the good chunk that remained. The whole time I was hoping it would get better but it didn’t.

I was so hoping I'd find something here that would make it somewhat more interesting; some angle; anything I may have missed. When I read your comments I thought I’d found it but then I went back to re-watch the flashback sequence. I didn’t see any of what you said. I’m so disappointed.😞

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[–] prplayer 8 years ago

Bunuel just wanted to give us a few more shots to enjoy Deneuve's beauty

so many movies, so little time

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