The ending... - Transylvania (2006) Discussion

[–] laomedonte 17 years ago

I think that the ending gives you the idea of their future live. The two accept the conditionals: she's got a son from an other man / he's an unemployed traveler man. When the two are agree they met each other another time to start a new live!. It isn't a dream, it's real live.
Well, that's my opinion... what do you think?

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[–] sagiye 17 years ago

anyway you look at it, its a sad ending.
Its as if they both have to give up on something, maybe even give up on themselves and their dreams and hopes.
They are not satisfied with their situation, but find some comfort in each other.

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[–] dromasca 17 years ago

I would have liked the movie to end one scene earlier, with the girl disappearing. During this whole movie she is ongoing a process of melting into the Transylvanian reality (well, better say fantasy, as what this film shows has very little to do with real Transylvania) and becomes more and more like a Roma. Her disapearing would mean a complete merging into this foggy fantasy. The last scene in the real movie was not clear to me either, I like to think about it as belonging to dream though, because I could find no explanation about where he is driving and how he knows where to look for her.

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[–] alma099 16 years ago

I absolutely agree with you, dromasca: the "complete merging into the foggy Transylvania" would have been a logical, natural conclusion, and I found the apparent happy ending a bit unsatisfying. But then, I'm not sure it is a happy ending either. Like in many other great films, it is this very ambiguity that really counts. Anyway, as a Romanian living in US, I must say this is a GREAT film, despite its cinematic licenses. I can't fully understand those criticisms coming primarily from my Romanian fellows, that the film is not "authentic." For them, I must repeat what has been said before on this board: this film is not a documentary, it doesn't aim to ethnographic accuracy; it is a fiction film, and as such Gatlif has all the rights to make licenses and fictionalize the reality, in a truly cinematic spirit.

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[–] pisces_foo 16 years ago

Isn't it just an imagination? He is sitting in the bar and imagines how sad he will be if he finds that she has left. Actually she is still there waiting for him.
I took it as a happy ending. Both of Zingarina and Tchangalo are complete because they have overcome inner struggles. A new life is born. They are cured. Through the trip, they found their hopes back.

The existential truth is that we all know that we must die.

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[–] Conny-7 16 years ago

I think they stay together and find comfort in each other. She ha given birth to the other guy's baby and he accepts this.

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[–] moon-is-mine1 16 years ago

I think he just imagined how it would be if he went back to her too late just as Zingarina first imagined Milan was happy to see her and then we see what really happens. When Tchangalo imagines she could leave him he finally realises he loves her enough to accept the child of another man.

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