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Please explain the final scene of the film....


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The final scene of the film shows Olivier walking in the woods, then meeting another man who appears to be the flying instructor from the time Hicham took him kite-gliding. Olivier and the man greet each other and then walk into a cabin on the edge of the woods....then, end of film.

This scene made no sense to me. Was the implication here that Olivier and the flight instructor are having an affair? Or what? Someone please help with an explanation....to me this was a totally bizarre way to end the film.

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the flying instructor is olivier's new boyfriend. the last 10 minutes has the narration of hicham reciting his letter to olivier, confused about the sudden breakup.

appaently olivier went back for the 'free' 2nd lesson afterall ...

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Hmmmph... I think that might be one leap too far (oh, I just made a pun I think!). OTOH, I don't have a better explanation.

A few of the reviewers have issues over the plots continuity and this was just one of many unexplained scenes. (I've been reading the reviews because of my own questions)

No one has yet commented on Marc's apparent inability to drive in a straight line! :-) That for me was the biggest unanswered question and most unsatisying scene!

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I think Marc driving into a tree was showing how he really couldnt hurt someone else. Everytime he goes to hurt that one guy he can't go through with it. The car crash just shows that...I think..

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My impression with Marc's inability to defend himself yet his ease when it came to hurting his family might be just a dynamic so many of us are all to aware... we hurt the ones we love because we know they won't leave us.

In the movie, in French, he says to Christophe that "You said you'd always protect me."
Marc has a lot of growing up to do ... and unfortunately it won't happen any time soon.

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I think the movie is ultimately about how these three brothers learn to grow up and be independent. Marc was the brother who thought his brothers got in the way. He has to suffer the fate of growing up because he has no choice - his other brothers have moved on. Christophe gets a job and finally a woman, the only one in the movie (besides the two female approximations). Olivier learns, at the scene where his two brothers are fighting, that devoting himself completely to them ends in heartbreak. I think Hicham gives him that opportunity to break away, but ultimately Olivier doesn't want to fall into the same pattern as before, except with someone new. I think the final scene points to that. Olivier is going to take the second flight, and he is going to do it alone. Whether he is sleeping with the instructor is immaterial, the fact that he has decided to have a life of his own making is the point.

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure Marc's swerving into the tree was because of a sudden decision not to go ahead with the killing.

As for Olivier, the take-home message for me was that the relationship with the boyfriend may be dead and gone, but it had an impact, a meaning, and left a legacy. Before, Olivier was too scared to go off the cliff, but thanks to the experience with his boyfriend he has overcome that fear. Olivier learned from the relationship and with a new perspective he is moving forward.

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I also wondered if the flight instructor was a new love interest but decided no, on second viewing of the film.

My take on dumping Hicham was that Olivier chose to stay in his familiar (family) rut rather than venturing out to freedom with someone that will probably treat him in a better way than his family. It's a common human theme.

But in a way Olivier did learn to take a new path. Afterall, he overcame his fear of going off the ledge which offered a symbol of his triumph.

Perhaps Hicham should have beat the door down and taken Olivier away with him, because it appears Olivier may have been ready to escape his familiar existence.

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