I was horrified when she sent poor Bunzo away on the tram.
Would he have been better off if he scampered into the bushes when left in the park, to fend for himself and possibly unknowingly wander out into traffic? Or, is there a good chance a good samaritan would have found him on the tram and either adopt him or take him to the local animal rescue shelter?
Or, did Bunzo die too and rejoined Kumiko in the last scene?
he had better odds of surviving in the subway since he was a pet so he wouldn't have been able to feed and protect himself in the wild
but the ending implies he died so nobody helped him at the end :(
There's no shortage of animal samaritans in Japan, that's why she opted to put him on the subway. I worked at a Japanese high school and students were always bringing in injured wildlife that they'd found, so you can imagine a cute bunny would be snapped up quick.
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I don't think the rabbit is dead, but she definitely is dead at the end of the movie.
We constantly see her disregarding her healthy and safety, and the last scene we see with her before we see her frozen, snow-covered corpse is her wandering into the dark woods. It heavily implied approaching death. Thee next scene is a snow mound where she collapsed from exposure, probably trying to drink water from the nearby creek.
I'd say she is very much dead and the "waking up" in the snow scene is her in the afterlife. No one survives sleeping in the snow like that after wandering for days, not without being severely weakened and injured, but she wakes up like she's fine (nowhere near as pale as she was in the frozen lake scene). Then right after that, we see her ascending on a ski lift out of nowhere (symbolizing a heavenly ascent to the afterlife).
Then of course we see the entire scene from the Fargo movie laid out, which we are reminded was never real to begin with, and all the pieces are there, the treasure of inconsistent $100's, even the rabbit. It's the afterlife for sure.
Anyway, maybe Bunzo had to be dead to be there, but it isn't for sure. I think she was just reaching her afterlife reward, and it included one of the few things she liked from life, the rabbit.
Edit: Also wanted to add the real girl this is based on died on her hunt, too.
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She's dead. How do you explain going to sleep in snow and just waking up the next day? She froze to death, just like the real person did in the real story.
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