Interpretation of the Ending? SPOILERS**
I can't stop thinking about watching this film the other night. What an actress!
So much to discuss, but I most want to focus on a few key elements.
The Ending: I don't know if we're meant to know how he died, but as she approached the sidewalk crowd, we see yellow tape, so I didn't know if he jumped (but I didn't see a draped body or anything inside the yellow tape; did you?) Or did we see a hospital gurney being wheeled out from upstairs?
Well, regardless of how, we know that it was not with the bottle he bought from her(which he had secretly rturned to her purse at her house.) Which brings me to the point I wanted to make. I don't know how you, or she, interpreted his death, but I immediately felt it was the ultimate show of Love. He changed from being a disengaged selfish grumpy old man, to choosing his most important final act as an act coming from Love. Even though (he had explained that)he didn't like the other suicide options he knew that she felt that her very core had been compromised by his buying the bottle, and he chose to take a final course that respected her morals and needs.
Other things may have been going through her mind, on the sidewalk, but I think that her slight smile may have been because she realized this.
What do you think?
I'd like to hear if you noticed her way of dressing through the film. I took it as a wish to camouflage and protect herself, but also I saw it as a very boy-like way. I wondered if the director was using that key visual element to impress us of her youth and naivete. And of her world where she focused everything on her job, and didn't care about appearances or other societal norms.
Thanks for your thoughts. What a terrific film.
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