Meaning of the final quote?


As the boys are walking away together into the sunrise, the following quotation pops up on the screen before everything fades to black:

Voice from the Lake: "What for each of us is inevitable?"
Yudhisthira: "Happiness".


What does this mean, and how is this relevant to the film's climax?


I have to get more pudding for this trip to Hawaii.

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Maybe that both good and evil people can derive pleasure from either the positive and beneficial deeds as well as the downright toxic, awful, negative and destructive ones - in the last case, as incredibly sad, paradoxical, unfortunate but also inevitable, as it may sound.

The dark truth about human nature, so to speak.

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We don’t think it’s fair of you to ask us to write an essay telling you who we are because we are all a basket case a criminal and athletes a beauty queen and a brain

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2 captainbucky - apologies for any inconvenience of course, but was the "We don't think its fair of you to ask us to write an essay telling you who we are" part of your reply meant to be directed at ME, possibly my user habit of "asking people..." here and there, or was it meant to somehow reflect what you thought the quotation the OP referred to REALLY meant and was asking?

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I think in the simplest terms and the most convenient Definition.

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Cool, so I guess, although it sounded a little like it, it wasn't a complaint at me personally, right?

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Not at all fine sir

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:)

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Don’t you forget about me

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Like in that Simple Minds song, yes? )

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Correct ☹️

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I'll be alone, dancing, you know it, baby. :)

P.S. Have you seen this film, captainbucky, and what did you make of it? Long story short, I have indeed seen it yes, and mostly I thought it was rather average overall, and about a 4 or at most, a 5 out of 10, I would give it.

Mostly, I found it to be a rather dull and disappointing effort and the final scene relying a little too much on shock value, and it wasn't really anything too special on a technical level either, with most performances being average at best, and there are infinitely better British, thought-provoking, metaphorical and even controversial and shock-value oriented films out there. Its OK to see it once just to say you've seen it, but don't get your hopes up high. Not completely without merits, but not particularly impressive either.

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Could this perhaps also be why Tony Blair may have been proud of his previous achievements which may have actually done some GOOD and is still nonetheless defending his decision to launch an attack on Iraq in 2003 with USA, even though that decision of course was BAD and in the last 16 years or so, causes many people to despise him and call him a war criminal in need of life imprisonment for the act?

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