maybe I'm thick but I don't quite get the "end" of Felix -- I guess Mr. Braun as his "care" now that he's married Felix's mum had him kidnapped by two ruffians after his cheating at cards (is the card cheating exposed?) -- and they send him off to a bar where he drinks his life away & plays cards?
It seemed he was in another country,but I have the same question.
shareIt was fashionable to make wastrel sons 'emigrate' and better themselves in some 'new world'. It was argued that the dilettante atmosphere of Europe spoiled them and they would be better suited to a wilder, more rugged clime were men did manly things like farm, hunt or build things.
The laugh is that Felix is going to do none of these things, he's never going to change his ways. In fact, he now has the freedom to do what he likes without upsetting any of his relations! The girl at the bar will try and do to him what he did to Miss Melmotte - get a leg-up to money - but she could be another Ruby.
I don't think they really "sent" him away, I think he was just at his old tricks again. I believe had the show not faded out right as he slammed his glass down on the table we would have seen him get up and follow the waitress into the back, feed her crap about how much he loved her and they'd be in bed within the hour. Everyone changed to some degree, or moved forward in some way except him.
sharefunny, these were my thoughts precisely :) according to the poster behind him he is in France... that's all I can add to this
shareFelix was a cad from beginning to end. The ending simply shows that. He has not and will not change. Still playing cards and chasing the skirt even in his banishment to the continent at the hands of Mr Broune. He selfishly used and ruined his mother and Marie. There may be a fleeting sympathy at times that he is simply a "naughty boy", but he is a grown man and then ending is showing he is and will remain a cad.
From the painting on the wall of the bar where he ended, it appears he was kidnapped and released in France. Now that he has the ability to cheat at cards, he can probably support himself at last at least. After a few years people may forget the bad things he did and he can come home again.
As a rule when you mix genres in a movie you're in trouble. --William Goldman