Could someone explain the ending?

i thought it might have been his kid, maybe in the future. If this is a really dark comedy, i see it as life is pointless, and people have kids just to make themselves better and as sweet as it might appear here, its all devastation, this is his last hope

That's exactly what the ending is about. It's saying he's gone no where, and is basically a 35 year old boy (or however old he is). All the intelligence he has was never put to anything of use. Not furthering his mind. Not having any thoughts, ambitions or beliefs of his own. Just making fun of those who do. His "intelligence" was used only to make pseudo-clever comments to make his pals laugh, humiliate others in situations that are of seriousness for them (a nurse in his profession, people praying in a church, a cab driver trying to make a living), and to get women to have sex with him.

I guess this is a commentary on people who grow up with absent parents who give them a bunch of money and educate them through private schools. They give their children the best of everything but themselves. Then, as depicted in the movie, the kids use all the cleverness they possess to make cheap laughs, and talk about world issues they know nothing about like they are enlightened. They have no emotional attachment to anything and damage their bodies with drugs because subconsciously they hate themselves. On the other hand, consciously, believe they are above others because everything in the material world they have been given indicates they are above.

An interesting scene is when the girl was having a seizure. They guy looked at her like he didn't care whatsoever. So essentially sex has no emotional or spiritual attachment in any way shape or form. And when he's sitting with his father, while he is on his death bed, unconscious, he prods at him like a little kid messing with a sleeping animal, showing he has no emotional connection to his father. Everything is physical and material for the main character, and anything with any emotional, or intuitive (right brained) content is basically laughed at like it's a big joke.

A great scene was when the guy was talking about being with the only family he has, and how his parents died, and was an orphan. Then someone makes a quick joke about and they toast and completely dismiss it. Instead, of people who being mature and trying to learn about themselves, their minds, and others, exploring that subject matter that is so taboo to them, because it's emotionally charged, and *beep* real. So, we'd better avoid that and continue being 35 year old children by drinking and jumping around in our underwear.

I think the convicted rapist bit was just another example of his callousness, and the scene shows how attractive that attitude can be to a certain type of woman.

I was initially confused by the ending, but now I agree that it is about him being a child. I guess I was hoping for a better ending -maybe an ending where something changes, or something shocking happens- but this was just one of those endings that confirms everything you've already seen, with no surprises whatsoever.

"Under strengths... You just put 'Accounts.' That's just your job." ~David Brent, The Office

Immediately after watching the ending, I thought the sudden cut-away, as he's approaching the child , was somehow symbolic. As if you are meant to decide what happens next.

And judging by how he mistreated nearly everyone he came in contact with and seemed to posess no empathy for human beings, he could have messed with or tormented the kid in some way (like he did EVERYONE else), or just played innocently.

This is what I thought they were leaving open to interpretation.

I don't know if this holds any weight, or not.


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in the beginning, it is always dark