OK Ok call me stupid but I really dont understand the ending..when they arrive at their house at night and there is a party going on with a very wierd bloke smoking a cigyy...can anyone help?
shareI'm not sure, but aren't all the weird people friends of Helmut Berger? I suppose it means that the main characters might have got rid of him, but they can't get rid of his friends.
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I really hoped the recent showing on TCM would lead to some discussion about the very last scene
(when they arrive at their house at night and there is a party going on with a very wierd bloke smoking a cigyy). No clue here, absolutely none.
Don't make me laugh, your kung fu is so so.
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I think it would foolish to take for granted that the climax and denouement is entirely real (starting with the moment Caine sits down in his chair in the upstairs room to read and his reflection is glimpsed in the window). Much of it could be taking place inside his own head. I'm not entirely sure yet.
shareI agree with all of these posts from 5+ years ago. Boring upper class, boring husband, boring wife who wants some romance in her life (so what's new), and exciting(??)mysterious guy who is a petty criminal with no affect.
shareI agree w/ bluesdoctor that the final scene shows resumption of "normal" "boring" life. This is the party for which Thomas wrote the invitations. Don't know about the strange guy smoking a cig at the end, perhaps a relative of cast/crew.
Also agree w/ this:
In this, the movie is downright wrong and loses all credibility, affecting the by-now worn bohemian/hippy pretensions of the 1960's (and 1970's).However, I wouldn't say it loses all credibility; they were just bored w/ their lives.