Worst Ending to a Film?
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shareYes, the ending was awful.
It was as if the writer just ran out of ideas so he just put The END on the story.
What were the effects on the family when Anne ran away? Did they just say she died during the Blitz? Did they look for her?
There was no pay off to the story at all.
why did they let her out?
Why if her mother let her out - did she not help her more proactively?
Why when they saw she was out did they act so normally?
What had they planned to do with her - lock her in her room forever?
What was the purpose of going through this charade to get him to tell the story to the little boy - i mean the old man was a small child at the time of the events?
What happened as a result of all this bad things they did?
What did she do after she ran away? Did she not tell anyone?
Considering the damningknowledge she had... they didn't try and find her and silence her? I mean they've been killing people for less!
Not to mention that throughout the first part of this film - it is very much made out that Christopher Lee is not Walter because of how the characters speak - i assume this was intentional and that the reveal of Christopher Lee being Walter was intentional because otherwise its just terrible writing - i mean how could the baby have any knowledge of what happened??? Did they gather round the dinner table after she had gotten away and discuss it? ridiculous.
It seemed (and would have made more sense) if Christopher Lee had been Eddie Redmaynes character - at least then she would have had a reason to come back and challenge them all - it would have been saying to the character who had assasinated her friend - i am here i know what you did and why you did it, and i wanted to hear you admit it was wrong. However Walter was just a child and the other a baby... what is she trying to gain...
It completely ruins the entire film - its pretty mediocre throughout - but it was watchable - and then the end, the end makes the film not make sense at all.
It's as though the film picks up a revolver and blows its own brains out because it has realised it got no idea how to bring all the strands together for the finale
Yeah, some of these questions I made up my own answers.
1 & 2) The mother let her out. At the very beginning we see the Mother purposefully isolating herself from her own family. So she knew what was up way before Anne. Since she didn't want to be locked up as well, she kept her mouth shut. Unfortunately, she was weak and allowed her daughter to be gaslighted. She must have heard something terrible if she finally took the action to let Anne out of the locked room.
3) I think their story was that Anne lost her fiance and flipped out of her skull. Who would question that? I mean, after all in the US, the Kennedy family gave their daughter Rosemary a lobotomy. Once she got out, they didn't make any sudden moves because their story was that she was crazy.
4) I don't know if they even had a plan. We know that Balcombe most likely wanted her killed. But the Father, Brother and Sister couldn't do it or allow it to happen.
5) I have no idea what was expected of Walter and his baby brother. That was truly where the film failed. Walter was just a kid who did what he was told. The baby sat in his carriage. Why Anne wanted to make a point to them just baffled me.
6) Who knows? I guess their appeasement tactics failed and it could prove to destroy their family if it ever got out what they did at the start of the war. Hence why they never searched for Anne.
7) I love to know how a half dressed woman, running through the streets in over sized men's shoes made this grand escape with no one noticing her or being untraceable to Balcombe. Made no sense.
8) Who knows? Maybe the reason why they couldn't kill her. They figured if she didn't talk when she first got out, then she wouldn't talk. And trying to find her would only get Balcombe urging them to kill her. So they left her alone. But really, this is only a big guess on my part.
It seemed (and would have made more sense) if Christopher Lee had been Eddie Redmaynes character - at least then she would have had a reason to come back and challenge them all
Yes, it would have been a better story idea. But no one would ever believe that tiny Redmayne (5'11'') would become big, strapping Christopher Lee (6'5''). There were a lot of elements to Redmayne's character that were just left hanging. Why was he so interested in being a spy and adulate Balcombe? He seemed to have an untoward obsession for his own sister Anne.
I think what makes the film so watchable was Romola Garai's performance. She turns it into something more, when there is nothing there. It looks beautiful photography wise as well. share