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The Ending

posted 15 years ago by HalesRay
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A lot of people who I've talked to about this movie didn't like the ending. I wasn't exactly a big fan of it either, but it seems everyone has a different idea of the meaning.

One of my friends said he was asking because he thought it was him. She was probably right.

However, I wasn't worrying about why he asked. I was worried about -how- he asked. When they were playing 20 questions before, he danced around the gender question and did the questioning in his own, odd way. But then, at the end, his second question was about gender. The whole trip changed his life, but it also seems to have brought him more down to earth.

Anyway, just some random thoughts.
Thoughts and feelings on the ending?

[–] Screen_Queen 13 years ago

I took the final line "Is he a man?" to be reflective of Mercer himself. Like he's asking both Kate, and himself, raising the question of whether this trip has changed him at all. It's open to interpretation. I would definitely say yes, not just because saying no would defeat the whole point of the movie, but because, as you've pointed out, he's become more straightforward and certain about knowing what he wants, as demonstrated by how quickly he asks the question "Is he a man?" the second time around. I liked the ending. The fact that it's a question at all makes it fascinating - people have the capacity to change but a lot of them don't, even when life-altering things happen, because it's easier to stay the same. To me, that he even asks it means he has.

I only do it with superheroes.