anyone get the ending?? (spoilers) - Conversations with Other Women (2007) Discussion

[–] CaptainStigmata 18 years ago

Basically she was giving up on her marriage, or atleast that is what I got from the comment.

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[–] michelleexxxx 18 years ago

Well does that mean she is going back to Aaron Eckhart or the man?

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[–] huntley_haverstock 18 years ago

I just saw the movie tonight and I'm pretty sure she was asked something else. Here's how I remeber it going

Man (to taxi driver): are you married?
Woman's taxi driver: are you from new york?
Man's taxi driver: yes (then something about kids, I can't remember)
Woman: Used to be, not anymore.

The conversation went something like that. Either way, she was answering the taxi drivers question about where she was from, not the man's question about marriage. She would not have been aware of what the man asked since he was in a different cab. It's a bit confussing, but that is how it's meant to be.

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[–] lionphish 17 years ago

She was saying that she used to live there, but not anymore.

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[–] Omidg 17 years ago

no, they got back together. and you could also conclude that when the screen, which was split into 2 parts during the whole movie, became 1 at the end.... at least that's what I got

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[–] t_mac 17 years ago

that's the point.. you're suppose to have different opinions... you can take both characters drivers, and flip flop the questions, and build your own ending. only the writer knows what ACTUALLY happened.

either way.. quite a film.

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[–] candylady 17 years ago

Even though they are filmed together in the taxi, the screen is still split and the decor is different. What I got is that she has finally said goodbye to her first marriage with A. Eckhart and know it is now in the past.

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[–] robotsliveyoudie 17 years ago

also in that last scene was the closest match the 2 slit screens ever came to in the entire movie. this film is good!

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[–] jjschueppert 17 years ago

Um, I think it's a pretty clear-cut movie. They go their seperate ways.

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[–] cycysi 17 years ago

I think she begins to question her marriage and 'the man' enters in the cab quite upset about relationships and so on...

but it's clear that the director wants us to think they go on to the same direction - and maybe together (because of the same decor at the end); even if they are actually in different cabs.

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[–] pal55555 17 years ago

I didn't think they went their separate ways. I thought that they ended up in the same cab, when the two screens became one.

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[–] lalalisahhh 17 years ago

Agreed. The ending made perfect sense. They both went their separate ways.

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[–] velvet_virginia 17 years ago

Um, no I don't believe it is a clear-cut movie, otherwise people wouldn't be having all these questions. There's no reason to act like a know-it-all. The movie is meant to be leave questions unanswered, encouraging its viewers to interpret certain things as they believe them to have happened. Unless you know the director or you are somehow privy to the inner workings of this film, there is no reason to act so superior.

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[–] jjschueppert 17 years ago

Nope.

It was very obvious she was referring to not living there anymore.

They don't get back together. Seriously.

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[–] Jes' Sayin' (5958) 5 years ago

This

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[–] krj47 16 years ago

And, I think, the scenes coming together at the end was to show the sad longing they both had for the relationship. And the realization that... it was over.

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[–] spooly_montana 16 years ago

I agree with the statement about the relationship being over, and them parting separately, but read the joining at the very end in the "same" cab, as saying they were thinking of each other as they drove away from each other! wonderfully executed, by showing them in two separate cabs, then together in the same cab. Notice how they both look over, towards each others direction, but not really at EACH OTHER. They have a longing, but they are separate in the end. Almost like they knew it could never be, but the feeling was still there. And of course two different cabs, backgrounds, and voices, they were not leaving together. although that would have been clever to film them both angled sideways more, and then cut between, and then show them both in shot together. That would have been cool. But that was not meant to be.

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[–] clharrison-1 17 years ago

she was answering the man's taxi driver,
and he was answering the woman's taxi driver

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[–] zepaddict 16 years ago

Agreed. She was responding to whether she's from NY. When she said that it confused me so I flipped back on my DVR and it was definitely her cab driver asking about where she was from not if she was married. Pretty sure they did it that way to make us wonder though. Thank goodness for DVRs.

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[–] Marbeque 16 years ago

The way things are edited it sounds like she is responding to being married, when she is talking about living in NY, it's how the director wanted us to hear it though. I'm 100% that they are not getting together in the end it's just putting an end to "them."

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[–] stephenotis 17 years ago

she simply meant that their prior realationship was her impresion of marraige, and that her current "marriage" was just that.....a non-marraige

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[–] moviefan_42 17 years ago

I agree with stephenotis. She was "answering" the question of whether she lived in New York. However, the split dialogue (as if to compliment the split-screen) was written so the audience hears her answering the question of whether she was married. In effect, the writer is having her express her true feelings about her current situation. She was MARRIED once - to a man she truly loved. Now, she is simply married - to a man who will not betray her. There is no risk, no danger and therefore no excitement. Theirs is (as stephenotis put it) a non-marriage.

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[–] atzoulini 17 years ago

they definitely take separate ways but the end does makes sense. Although in the movie she is going back and forth and she never admits to him that she loves him or that she is bored with her secure and predictable life, in the end she finally admits that the only marriage she considers real is her previous one. And she gives him the message that he is special when she gives him her pack of cigarettes. for him, the fact that she trusts him with something her current husband has no idea she is doing, smoking, confirms her feelings about him. Great movie, HBC is AMAZING, loved the chemistry between them.

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[–] saneman1 16 years ago

Well if one took a real dark view, then one could think she arranged for some friend to pretend to be her husband and make those calls just to have this charade for Aaron. And the reason why she left originally must be the same reason why she would not get back with him. She seemed to have some depression problems.

The other could be more straightforward. It is what was shown. She just answered some question about living there and the editing conflated in an artisitc way to give it another meaning about her being married to Aaron , and is in a marriage for the heck of it with the cardiologist.

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[–] near_sea 12 years ago

i agree with you..i felt like she meant it when she said "used to be not anymore"
that means she didnt get remarried and maybe she doesnt wanna get back together with him even if she has feelings left for him.

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[–] tralala_girl 16 years ago

I just saw the movie for the first time and I think it's amazing. It does not have a happy ending/feel-good factor which I think makes it more reflective of life. I agree that although her taxi driver asked her whether she lived in NY, she was also actually answering the question if she was married. I think when she answered not anymore, she was referring to her marriage with Eckhart's character. I think she was realizing that it was her last chance with happiness or with passionate love with him and she has to give it up for the more "stable" life she has built in London. The merging of the two screens at the end was brilliant and I think it showed that they had different perspectives throughout the film when they were physically together but it was only at the very end that they were actually together in their loneliness.

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[–] the_Poppuns 17 years ago

I don't know I got confused.

Is it possible that she actually wasn't married?

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[–] fordraff 17 years ago

As others have written here, Carter was answering the taxi driver's question about whether she lived in New York. If you have the DVD, listen to the director's commentary. He explains this entire final scene. And, no, he does not mean to bring the two characters together for a reconciliation at the end, as he also makes clear. This would ruin the entire thrust of the script, which, to use a corny cliche, is that you can't go home again. Although it seems as if the two characters are in the same taxi, the director pointed out (if I recall correctly) that the background seen through the taxi's rear window is different on each character's side of the cab, making clear it's still a split screen. The Director's Commentary on the DVD answers many of the questions brought up by various people on these message boards.

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[–] IHeartEternalSunshine 17 years ago

I will watch the Commentary :) I LOVED this film

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[–] wornxragdoll 17 years ago

here's how i see it.
the reason they look like it's one shot and not a split is that these two people wants to be together but connot.
they might wish this, but the taxi is moving and so must they.
despite the feelings they share.
it's too late, that's why they only had one night.

i do love that she saids how she isnt married anymore.
it brakes my heart.

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[–] fabsrw 17 years ago

besides, how boring would it be if they end up together at the end of the film! it would be just like any other chick flick where the boy gets the girl. This is what I like about these kind of films (like Before sunrise) that they're more like the real world where boy don't always gets the girl (he he just like Alan Jackson's song Here in the real world)

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[–] Kaniket 17 years ago

I thought she had lied to Eckhart through out the film about being married to Jeff so that they do not get back together.

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[–] pepepotamo2001 17 years ago

Sorry but NO... Jeff called her, say that he loves her and will wait her at home, like Eckhart told about the message in the phone. So, she´s married.
I´m sorry.

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[–] cornelia123 17 years ago

Yes this also confused me. Gee, it's just come out in the UK, how come you have already seen the DVD with Commentary et al?

I too thought that what she meant was that she was once married to Eckhardt but not anymore, now guilt, curiousity, or what have you, has been lifted and she is truly free to pursue her life, it's a closure of that part of her life. Her answer refers to Eckhardt because he's who she is thinking of as she is leaving New York and her past, ie him. That's not to say that she isn't currently married to somebody else and that she will leave him. I think she found stability and a 'mature' love and that's what she wants, and not the youthful passionate and painful love she had with Eckhardt. Maybe Eckhardt was selfish and a liar ( ie. typical Lawyer) whilst her current husband is compassionate and trustworthy ( ie. typical Doctor).

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[–] SaguaroD 17 years ago

Well the ending may not be straightforward but it's competely true that they were in seperate cabs talking to two different people.

The ending might have subliminally been suggesting that they got together again or what not but where they were during the scene is pretty straight forward unless you just are'nt paying too close attention.

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[–] bluemorning11 11 years ago

I didn't get the end ..

The driver asked her : " You care which way I'll go ? "
She answered : 'No'
but she had to go to the airport , isn't she ?

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[–] TamPalm 11 years ago

Literally, she meant she didn't care which route he took to get to the airport. Figuratively of course, like the rest of the film, it was a sort of double entendre and meant more than one thing. That would be that like her ex-husband (who also answered that he didn't care which way), from that point on, the most passionate relationship of her life has essentially come to a close (at least for the foreseeable future) and everything that follows kind of doesn't matter, is kind of blah.

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