Extremely weak ending. Seems the writer/directer didn't know a good way to end it, so he just ended it pretty much right in the middle of a scene. Cheap.
shareWhat do you mean? as I recall, the foreboding was part of the point. You do your best to live your life forward, but the specter of death is always at hand.
shareNot cheap. It's actually a good open ending (which I find to be rare).
Just assume they live hand in hand, happily ever after, living for today while always watching over their shoulders.
Either they beat the monster or you'll have a sequel. This ending works perfectly for both possibilities.
Didn't the pool turning red mean he had met his demise? The guy following them in the last scene was just another It, or so we are teased.
sharethe person behind them in the last scene is not another It because he looks to the right and to the left, whereas the It stares at you & homes in on you, also a normal person would be using the sidewalk like that, whereas the It can come from any direction and not rely on man-made paths like that.
the ending, and perhaps also the meaning of the movie is what the user acidraindrop commented: "you do your best to live your life forward, but the specter of death is always at hand". its also the last dialogue in the movie when Yara is reading Dostoyevsky in the hospital: "When there is torture there is pain and wounds, physical agony, and all this distracts the mind from mental suffering, so that one is tormented only by the wounds until the moment of death. But the most terrible agony may not be in the wounds themselves but in knowing for certain that within an hour, then within ten minutes, then within half a minute, now at this very instant – your soul will leave your body and you will no longer be a person, and that is certain; the worst thing is that it is certain.”
you could just take the movie literally as a good horror story, but it could also be that the "monster" is a metaphor for death, and the "curse" that we pass on are our genes or our hopes that by reproducing we are somehow extending our time, that our death may not be so final