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the ending?

posted 8 years ago by KawaiiKiwi
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What's the meaning of the ending supposed to be? what do the pills she found mean? I looked it up and they are pills to cure insomnia, but how does that fit in the movie and why does the movie end with the phone call to her daughter? I didn't really get it... there is no resolution at all.

[–] sengalraja 8 years ago

Those pills were the ones michel was mixing in with the coffee to put her to sleep I think. Can you tell me what goes on after that and the gist of the convo with her daughter? There were no subtitles provided for this part of the scene.

[–] KawaiiKiwi 8 years ago

Oh yeah I forgot he was trying to put her to sleep. Why do you think? Was he trying to replace her by the new girl because he realized she was too crazy?

And on the phone she just tells her daughter she is coming back soon, and that she loves her. She says it a couple times and hangs up. During the credits scene they enter a movie theater and she asks if they have a love story movie showing, and if it ends well. The lady answers 'Yes' so she asks for two seats. Then a woman starts singing 'Be careful my love'.

[–] arjunkelaiya 8 years ago

And there were two torchlights. and Michel's seat was seen being vacant. I assumed they (Cops) arrested him (or them) probably due to runaway daughter!

[–] padzok 8 years ago

...he was trying to put her to sleep. Why do you think? Was he trying to replace her by the new girl because he realized she was too crazy?

He had been putting her to sleep for a few weeks.

This was so that he could sleep with the latest mark without the worry of Gloria murdering the mark before they got hold of the money, as had happened with the last two.

It's definitely possible that he was considering actually killing Gloria and setting up with Solange instead. But I don't think he had already made a firm decision to do that. He'd already had long enough to kill her if that's what he wanted.

He was sort of under Gloria's spell, just like she was sort of under his. He would not have found it easy to kick his Gloria habit, even if he wanted to, and even though he must surely have realised that Gloria was bound to be the end of him.

During the credits scene they enter a movie theater and she asks if they have a love story movie showing, and if it ends well. The lady answers 'Yes' so she asks for two seats. Then a woman starts singing 'Be careful my love'.

I assume Gloria gave both of them enough of the sleeping pills to kill them both. I assume the cinema scene was her dying dreams.

Alternatively, she killed him first, washed him (possibly as per the opening scene of the movie) and then killed herself, or else descended into madness.

[–] miya6550 8 years ago

My interpretation is that Gloria kills Michel (the scene where she washes him like what she does in the morgue), fuelled with anger and jealousy after realizing he has been putting her to sleep in order to sleep with the single mother, and is forever haunted by the loss of Michel. The part where they go to see the movie "The African Queen" is her happiest time together with Michel. That's why in her subconscious, she enters the theater with Michel in the hope of seeing a movie with happy ending. The flashlights in the back are supposed to be a metaphor of her guilt of losing Michel.

Any thoughts?