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The Ending- Spoilers Obviously


So the end the question is- did she want to kill him or did she chicken out of the suicide pact?
Her expression gave nothing away and the lingering shot on her hand seemed to suggest loss.

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I got the impression that she chickened out at the last second

Yeeash..the fire rises!

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I got the impression that, after reading his notebook and realising what he wanted them to do on the viaduct, she had no intention of killing herself. In my view, she'd realised the relationship would never be as good as she wanted it to be so she'd decided beforehand that she wouldn't jump. I think when he said she wasn't qualified to murder people, she didn't like that. It seemed, as far as serial killing went, he was a bit of a sexist and only wanted to kill people who pissed him off. I'm thinking this because she didn't look conflicted about jumping or not jumping.

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I took it as her way of getting rid of him too.

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What I read in to it is she intentionally let him jump because she realised the relationship wasn't what she wanted it to be, and was never going to be. Funny scene though watching him plummet to his death and hit the ground with a thud.

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Actually, it's quite basic... she can blame the murders all on him...

Plus... the sex was getting bad, he didn't get on with the dog, or call it the right name, he snogged the "hen", he lied about his redundancy, and didn't like her murders.

Not to mention getting pally with the nutty cyclist.

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I didn't think she let him die intentionally, i don't think the character was cunning enough to do something that would've involved that forethought, she was quite impulsive with her murders

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"she was quite impulsive with her murders "

Aye, maybe that's part of it. Her home life was rather staid...

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She decided she could only live with one control freak in her life. Her mother

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i think she had no intention of jumping and that she was smarter than you think and realised the only description of her was "she was an angry woman" so she could get away with the murders plus the relationship had gone stale for her

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I wonder if her mother would end up being her next victim. All she seems to want is to be left alone with the dog

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It is of course left deliberately ambiguous and her not jumping and watching him land is for me the last streak of jet black comedy.... But I do find it hard to buy into the 'she could now blame it on him and get away' school of thought.

Firstly the dream / nightmare sequence has a part which she is being led from the bridge by police. It looked like it might have been taken from a deleted sequence as it does not look remotely dream like - unlike the other pieces of the dream sequence...I take it to be a kind of foreboding or shadowing of what is to come.

Secondly the lost necklace presumably ended up in the dead hen's hand, which might well be why the police have come to consider foul play. A big hoo-haa is made by her about the lost necklace the next morning, she even states that she remembers having it at the restaurant. All of this doesn't mean she can't blame Chris for all the murders of course, but with the necklace and trail of bodies (including Chris) it seems to me the police are very near to catching and charging her. I thought the ending was greatly executed, just as good as the ending of Kill List. Wheatley knows how to keep a film playing in the mind.

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I took it as entirely intentional. When Chris called her a witch, he was right!

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I wouldn't say it is meaningless as evidence. It's not the hens necklace, her friends can testify to that. It also probably tells the story of a struggle if it is, say, clasped broken in the Hen's hand...

hypothetically the police could very quickly get a description of the 'angry woman' from the friends at the Hen party along with the story of what happened to make her angry. From here on the couple would become clear suspects and obviously the police knowing the necklace does not belong to the Hen party would trace where the necklace was purchased from. Good police work would trace the origins of the necklace to Chris sooner or later. Hell even dodgy police work could do that.

As soon as the necklace is established to have belonged to Chris then only two possible suspects exist - Tina or Chris....It's not rocket science.

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Incidentally why do you say they only maybe be able to identify Tina? There were over three women who all got a long hard clear look at Tina in a bright room. The incident and therefore memories of her are probably further highlighted by the drama she created by shouting at Chris and quizzing the Hen. The group probably noted that Tina and the Hen left at roughly the same time.

Tina has no chance of getting away with it, at the very least she would be taken in for interrogating. And I think the bridge police scene is probably something that was cut out of the final scene. But it's easy to see she's going to get caught, mainly as there is no other way to explain the Hen murder.

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At the end... she was not so sick.
She only want to love.

Oscar
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I interpreted it as she bottled it at the last second, although given the fractious state of their relationship and that she had seen his plans in his notebook I'd perhaps lean towards she let him go on purpose. Hell of a gamble though as if he had held her hand tightly she would have been dragged over with him. Which brings me back to believing she was prepared to jump and it was sheer luck that she bottled jumping and he released his grip as he went.

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