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WORST ENDING!!!! SPOILERS!!!!!!

posted 16 years ago by dinatekno
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First, to quote from eviltimes "After she puts the cash and some clothes in her valise, she drives somewhere, swaps the clothes for rocks and throws the valise with the money into a pond. The film then has a translation that says: "When God gives you a gift, he also gives you a whip." During the credits she is driving out in the countryside with the bird in its cage in the passenger seat." WTF?!?!?!?!?!

After CHOOSING to lie to the initial inquiry that she had the box of money, then going on to secure her passage out of the country and then KILLING and dismembering others AND having her (annoying) friend get killed, she decided to chuck it. And I am supposed to be satisfied with this ending - no way...

I loved this movie until the last 5 minutes. Take the bird, fly the coop - literally and figuratively - and enjoy the windfall - you idiot!!!

With her final toss of all that caused so much death and misunderstanding, she is worse than all those criminals. At least they were straight up about their intent and greed. She (by sheer universal chaos) just happened to be in a place where her selfishness and ultimate inability to own her destiny caused much death.

Very VERY dissatisfying ending...

[–] Danikaeyes 16 years ago

I kept thinking at the last minute, she'd take the rocks out, and I too, quickly become disappointed. Of course I wanted that happy Walt Disney ending with her in London. After all she went through, after all WE went through, isn't that what we, the audence, deserve ?

Hard to believe (and accept), some people do have a conscience.

Her conscience failed her at the police station. But the blood engulfing the valise was her first real moment of clarity.

And I kept thinking, she left the Myna bird ! But she didn't, she ended up, on her way home to see Mother, Father and the young ones, with Myna bird in tow. Quite possible being, the only way she was able to live with herself.

I was disapointed at first, but then, I considered the ending from the directors point of view, and what he was saying about Tum's shaken character.

Universal disagreed with the ending of Terry Gilliam's Brazil and actually created their own consumer-friendly ending (like what you want). After Brazil won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for "Best Picture", Universal finally agreed to release a modified version supervised by Gilliam.

Thank God Gilliam wasn't persuaded to appease the masses.

[–] cvincent1 15 years ago

Remember, she *has* to go home to Mom, to get the rest of the money...

[–] TeeWee30 15 years ago

I got the ending however I was still disappointed. It's frustrated to see her come out with nothing after all of that effort. As she drove down the highway it saddened me. Her sudden morality was too little to late.
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[–] b_um_p 15 years ago

"Blood money." ~ bossin45

Yeah. Exactly.
How could she enjoy the money knowing it brought so much pain and misery?
The money was obviously cursed, and after getting her paper cut in the midst of all those bodies and blood, Tum realizes that the money is loaded with some seriously bad juju, and no good could come from it.

So yeah. She dumps it in the same stinky lake where she dumped the bodies and the gun. And burns the fake passport. Effectively cleansing herself of anything she "gained" from the money.

i can absolutely see why you didn't care for it... but i thought the ending was perfect. Very poignant.

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[–] BrerRabid 15 years ago

It is what it is.

The ending could probably have as many variations as there are various cultures.
I've not been to Thailand, but can imagine that this might have been the ending that pleased, and spoke to the Thai's the most. If it had a Disney ending or a Scorcese ending would the story line actually improve?

The thing that got to me (in a good way) about half-way through, was that this was one of the better foreign dark comedies I've seen. I was chuckling after her second, of how many(?), mop and pail scenes! No big morality tale here - just a good dark comedy.

[–] archyteckie08 12 years ago

But the ending is a morality tale. Blood money is no good. That's why the writer/director made her ditched it. If she would have kept the money and got away, than we could concluded that this wasn't a morality tale.

The sappy ending wasn't so much a cultural thing but an outcome that the writer/director wanted. Asians are okay with non-Disney endings. It's Western Audiences who are troubled by sad endings. Americans are the worst; due to it being a culture that revolves around being very optimistic. The Asian movie market tends to be okay with sad or "realistic" endings. While more mainstream Asian films do have happy endings b/c they like to copy American movie making. The more dramatic ones, using traditional Asian storytelling techniques, tend to conclude on a sad note.

[–] AssetsonFire 11 years ago

The film was made in the aftermath of the 1997 stock market crash. Tum's sacrificing of the dirty money (embezzled by her boss?), burning of the fake passport, giving up of her dream of joining the West and heading back to the country was presumably an advice to the viewers by the film's makers, as well as a reflection of how many of them felt at the time.

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