Last scene

Here's what I saw as the chronology (and if anyone who hasn't seen the movie is reading this, these are obviously major spoilers):

1) Krisha's first relapse (the bottle of red wine, which I assume was what she'd found peeking in the china cabinets earlier - they'd tried to keep alcohol out of her sight), and the turkey spill disaster.

2) After sleeping it off, Krisha remorsefully tries to re-enter the family dinner, but younger sister (Robyn?) takes her upstairs for the "tough love" talk. Krisha wants to do better, but this doesn't mean she's invited back downstairs with the family.

3) Krisha, left alone, goes into her son Trey's room. Looks at photos, trophies, etc., from her lost years without him. She lays in his bed because that's the closest she can get to him now. Sees the photo on the bedside table, which I assumed (just a guess) was an old photo of Krisha & Trey. She breaks down - there was hope & she ruined it.

4) Crushed and vulnerable, Krisha sees mini-fridge in Trey's room. Finds the white wine inside & relapses hard (with whatever she's snorting as well).

5) Drunk/stoned Krisha at her worst, angrily confronting the family a second time, trying to force herself on them (and especially Trey). Yelling, fighting, etc.

6) Final shot of Trisha's face, intentionally ambiguous on time & place & what's going on inside. She is what she is and you can love her, pity her, hate her, etc.

I think it couldn't be a flashback to the last time she was with the family, because I feel like people kept saying it had been 10 years. And the kids, especially, are all "present day" ages.

I saw it last night & am still shaken up by that ending.

It's fun to piece together the puzzle, but in the end I don't think it matters. We all see everything that happens, she gets *beep* up and destroys the fragile dynamic her family has cultivated in her abscence. Amazing film, amazing score, quite an experience.

I think the last scene is her committing suicide and her visually things in her mind. Also, she wasn't drinking wine. It was actually Dripping Springs vodka. I freeze framed it and was able to find it on the Internet.

http://drippingspringsvodka.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/DSV_075ml_Cup_SMALL.jpg

Like someone here mentioned, it was vodka she was chugging by the end, not wine, and those things she was snorting were some kind of upper, perhaps alkyl nitrites or "poppers" (club drugs).

Chugging vodka can kill you, especially if you mix it with uppers. I took the ending as her suicide attempt.

That last scene was a freaking hoot!! I rewound it around four times, starting with "I'm your mom! You came out of my body! You came out of me! No, you look at me and tell me you love me right now!"

Oh man! And then when they all start with "you shut the *beep* up!" "Don't tell me to shut the *beep* up, this is my house! YOU shut the *beep* up!" Gold. Solid gold. We were howling! Man, I can see why this is labeled a comedy. Also, how wimpy was Trey with his "I'm not your *beep* son anymore." Wooh, those were some Jerry Springer, high camp "no wire hangers!" histrionics and I, for one, loved it.

One question, though. When ole Krish was flashing back to her moment with her sister and herself in the bathroom the director was showing how she kept replaying and distorting it in her head right?

Krisha relapsed. 100%. I assumed those pills were adderall (maybe treys) - or the beta blockers the dad said he had. I side more with the adderall angle considering how pumped up she was afterwards in the dining room when she was screaming at Trey. I believe they made the relapse flashbacks hard to distinguish with intent - suggesting that the family has been through this time and time again. Its clear she buckled when she saw her mother. It wasnt clear if her mother recognized her or not, but the fact that it was unclear is most likely what spooked her- causing her to seek solace in the bottle. and once in the bottle- the filters are defunct- she wants to go all the way- hey its a celebration.. the thing is- she will most likely not be able to recover her trust from this episode. also- seeing how she treated that dog- she definitely has some issues and will most likely end up in a mental institute- or possibly a malnourished- grimy wanderer. i view this film more like a drama/horror. not comedy.