The Ending
I missed the ending. What happened after Shandurai woke up and went upstairs?
shareThat was left in the air. The movie ends and we never know if she open the door or not.
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Hi there,
don't know if the italian version I just watched minutes ago is the same as the one you watched.
Said that,she wakes up,picks up the bottle of champagne,climbs the stairs and reaches kirby.
They spend the night together.
At morning a taxi delivers the freed husband, who rings longer than a postman...
:-)
She leaves the bed.
the film ends
to me she goes down the stairs to welcome him
but can't say if :
- they live together in mr Kirby's house
- they split and she lives with mr Kirby
her behaviour suggests that leaving the bed,she feels like she paid her gratitude to mr Kirby
and now will live with her husband,but can't be sure about it.
enjoy good movies
matt
(quote: to me she goes down the stairs to welcome him
but can't say if :
- they live together in mr Kirby's house
- they split and she lives with mr Kirby )
didn't see this film, but why can't be it this solution: they 3 live happily ever together? :)
This is the answer of my French teacher, when we discussed a similar situation of an old French lyric: a soldier came back home after many years, but his wife thought he was dead and already married to another man. they were all sad and very painful. What should they do? Some said the wife should stay with his new husband, some said the wife should go back with the soldier. At the end of class, we ask our teacher what's her opinion. She said: Live with both together, why can't women have 2 husbands? We all agreed that's the best solution to such a situation. My teacher at that time she was 70s years old. She is a French. I adore her. :)
it's been a long time since i've seen the film. i saw the american version, i didn't know that there are different versions, if i remember correctly she does not open the door. her husband waits at the door for a long time and then picks up his suitcase and walks away. when the husband rings the bell she gets up, imo, out of guilt. she leaves the bed which symbolizes her involvement with Kinsky, but never opens the door because she realizes that she no longer feels for her husband the same way as she did in Africa. i think she felt for her husband for not as much as a loved one but as one who was arrested wrongfully and mistreated unjustly. she found new life in France and her husband represented everything that she left behind, therefore she maybe was afraid to face him and perhaps be obligated to leave her new life.
shareIt's set in Italy and her husband never walks away when she fails to open the door. We don't know if she ever does open the door or not. It ends with him standing at the door. I certainly don't think she was in love with her husband, not when the movie takes place anyway. She tells Kinsky that she respects her husband very much and that he's a great man, but never mentions love.
shareI don't believe she would have left her husband for Mr. Kinsky. She said she loved him and spent the night with him but it was her way of thanking him for getting her husband out of jail. When the doorbell rings, Kinski has his arm across her almost trying to keep her from answering. She is almost in tears but eventually pushes his arm off her and gets up. She has to get dressed, meanwhile her husband is waiting outside. I believe she gets dressed and answers the door and eventually leaves with him.
shareThe push off of his arm is the key.
She went to get her husband.
Why get up at all....
Btw, Bertolucci is the finest living film maker.
The husband does not walk away. She gets up to go to him and it seems she has opened the door as the film ends.
Its that man again!!
I don't think she opens the door. "Mr. Kinsky, I love you", She was very specific.
shareIn the version I saw (in the U.S.), she somehow wound up in bed with Mr. Kinsky, and was still lying there as her husband rang the doorbell the next morning. She never got up.
STILL RIDIN'! FIGHT THE POWER!
Can't say anything for sure about actually what happens with she and her husband but I did see her husband picking up his bag from the ground by the hand he was pressing the call bell and retreat a little.
shareThat was kind of a sad ending, but it was pretty clear to me what happened before the husband showed up at the door.
STILL RIDIN'! FIGHT THE POWER!
All of you--stop thinking.
The ending is nebulous. There's no way to determine what really happened.
It is a beautiful enigma.
Accept it.
Carpe Noctem!
After she slept with him (notice that she wakes up at the other side of the bed), the door bell rings many times. Finally she pushes away Kinskys arm and gets out of bed.
We can't know for sure if she opens the door or not. But the pushing away of Kinskys arm is not very tender, so my bet is that she does.
+++ Hey, I know what a restraining order is. I had girlfriends before, you know... +++