MovieChat Forums > A Zed & Two Noughts (1990) Discussion > Questions regarding the ending (Huge Spo...

Questions regarding the ending (Huge Spoilers)

posted 15 years ago by adrizacv
2 replies | jump to latest

After watching the film there are many details that I didn't seem to grasp. Warning: Don't read ahead if you haven't watched the film.

1. Why did Alba wanted to die? She had just delivered two babies and found Phillipe.
2. How did she die? It just seemed to me that she lied in her bed and instantly died for no good reason.
3. Why didn't her family give her body two the twins if, as she said "everything was settled"?
4. What does Van Hoyten say to Venus regarding her entering the zebra cage? What was her purpose in doing so? Did she wanted to be killed by the zebras? And if so, why?

Thanks in advance, and I just want to add this is one of the best Greenaway movies I've seen. Greenaway's obsessions are all over the place: Art history, scientific knowledge, strong dominant females and strange sexual behaviors.

Great film not to be missed.

[–] SherlockVonEinstein 13 years ago

1. she was responsible (partly) for the death of two people and had just brought two into the world. she paid off her debt, so to speak, and had found someone to care for the children. hence the "everything is settled" line.

2. it seems to me that she "willed herself to death." i think that scene wasn't meant to be taken literal. she chose to die, that's all.

3. i'm not sure about this one. it seemed to me that she had given her body to the twins (she said she had written a letter and had it sealed in an envelope), but they had a change of heart.

4. was she being killed by the zebras? at first i thought she was going to fornicate with them, refering back to the first conversation we see them have, where they joke about such a thing. then once the zebras started to make noise, i thought she was killing them. after all, he detested the zoo having black and white animals because that created competition for his own zoo. (remember, he was color-blind and wanted to open an all black and white animal zoo.)

[–] 13 years ago

[deleted]