Don't people understand the ending??
The final scenes in Switzerland are a perfect ending to a brutal film like this. After dealing with a psychotic mother as a child, then being stalked by a psycho who pins her eyes open so she can watch him murder people, a man who follows her to another country and murders her last friend in front of her.. she has pretty much lost her mind, and is crawling on the ground like a child talking to flowers and insects! How do people not get that this is a perfect way to end the film. Doesn't anyone remember the final scene of "Psycho," when Anthony Perkins is talking about not hurting the fly on his hand? Just like the girl in "Opera" he is trying to hold onto some shred of sanity, even though it is too late. I guess people forgot the earlier scenes, where the girl had to listen to opera music recorded over a voice telling her to relax and assuring her things were fine, and she decides to play it, when the killer is inside her home coming after her. she was unstable from the beginning, so the end is realistic. I'm just amazed at how many people watch films and then insult something like this, just because they dont' "get it." Anyway I thought the end was perfect, and I am glad that Dario Argento refused to cut out the ending when the US distributors asked him to; he simply refused, and avoided a sterile, forgettable and crappy ending to a very good film.
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