I didn't get it. Did she die as was implied or was that some kind of dream at the end? I will agree that it was a stupid ending though.
shareShe's definitely there at the station. How she survived, I don't know...but she's real.
shareHey, James Bond is certainly dead at some point in practically every movie, but inevitably comes back without explanation and nobody ever complains about that.
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Awful ending. It almost looked like they gave up, or ran out of money or something and just tacked on that final scene. At first I thought this was just Part 1 and the rest would follow next week, but no, this was the whole thing. Awful, very bad program, waste of some good actors
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The ending made no sense.
Was Victoria really shot?
How did she survive after taking a bullet and disappearing in the lake?
Why did she hide the fact that she had survived, especially from the man she loved, only to show up at the station, in utter silence, as he was boarding a train that would take him off to trench combat in World War One?
Why no explanation, apart from the obvious that there was no logical explanation?
(Was Victoria supposed to be faking her death to retain some kind of undercover status? If so, why conceal that from Hannay until the train station scene?)
Was it all a dream?
Typical of BBC nowadays, the director was amateur hour, the script was dumbed down, witless & incoherent (i.e. horribly paced--just one dam* thing after another), the camera work attention deficit, and the lighting dark as hell. Admittedly, the actors were physically attractive--& in looks, if not accents, pre-1914 in type. Unfortunately, their characters were under developed and not particularly interesting. It didn't help that the lead Richard Hannay was PC predictably soon delegated a second place cypher to Victoria--the "feminist-suffragette".
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I felt he was dreaming/wishing whatever you want to call it. I don't know if the PBS cut anything out of it as they are famous for doing but in the scene I saw it looked like she was a memory.
It’s good to dream
Look forward to a sequal:)
Really like Rupert... and i don't mind that the TV remake is a bit different.
After all, it's good entertainment for a relaxing evening.
However, I too am puzzled by the "dreamy" ending.
Did you think his conversation with the brother was part of the dream too? -- because the brother says "I came to say good-bye, .... but not for me."
shareI never even thought of it's being a dream. To me they seemed to be simply tacking on a surprise ending.
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Rupert and the audience think she's dead. She reveals that she's still alive, but her commitment to her country is stronger than her love for Rupert, so she goes off to her service in the war (yes, she's a PC feminist) as he goes off to his . . . with only a "promise" to meet again when it's all over.
I admit there was a major plot hole not explaining how Victoria had survived especially with a bullet wound to the shoulder and falling into the cold water of a loch. Perhaps they filmed it and just didn't put it in the finished movie.
I do think she showed up at the station to show him that she had in fact survived and think perhaps the reason she didn't speak directly to him was to maintain her work with the secret service bureau. This was a romantic take on the story the earlier remakes did not have and you have to admit it was kind of romantic to have her show up.
You have to think of the situation from their point of view. They had no idea that the war was going to last as long as it did. I do know that the opening months of the war did not have the classic trenches that they would later in the war. As I remember from school the Germans had a plan to take Paris within a few months. Had that happened the war could have been a short one.
The problem I had with the movie actually was with the biplane shooting through the propeller with hadn't been developed in 1914 and the cars that were all post WWI models. I didn't let those mistakes take away from my enjoyment of the movie and yes I'd like to see a sequel to the movie.
She was shot by that german guy and then when she was in the river she swam away to make it seem as if she was dead. so that way she could fool anyone that might be after her because she is a secret agent. that is why her brother said at the end that is was top secret, because it was. her death was faked. they didn't let Hannay know because then they might be out in public, when she is supposed to be hidden. then she came at the end to give Hannay a reason to survive the war.
Some men are just too interesting to die
But see, this is my problem with the concept of having faked her death. No one but Hannay was there to see it who wouldn't already conceivably be 'in on it' (the other two high-ranking spy people). If you're going to fake a death for spy purposes, there should really be someone there to tell the enemy, but the prisoners had been taken and the German who shot Victoria was then promptly shot by Hannay. It just seemed unnecessary to me, when they could have just had her leave him on the pier to continue her spy work and then had the final scene.
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The ending was terrible. I don't think it was a dream sequence because of the presence of her brother who pointed her out and told him he couldn't approach her due to security reasons.
That being said it reminded me of the movie Enigma, a much better film about WWII.
In it a beautiful British spy works undercover to find spies or collaborators during the Enigma project. She goes missing and appears to have been murdered and dumped into a deep lake. The man who loves her, who is framed by the real mole, decides she didn't die but took this way out to escape from an intolerable moral position this work had placed her in.
After the end of the war, he appears to see her walking down a London street from a distance. But does he really? Many people think this is just his imagination on seeing a woman who resembles her. She looks the same as the last time he saw her three or more years earlier.
I might add in Enigma the spy tries to escape, but fails, on a German submarine in a Scottish bay just like this movie.