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The ending....???

posted 17 years ago by kayla_marshall99
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So I just finshed reading posts about other people's opinions on the ending...which I feel completely different about. Mainly, it seems people thought that Kimberly was "happy" and that's why she was crying at the end...but those were NOT tears of joy! Not by any means....
She really did seem genuinely upset when Brittany freaked out at her. She didn't try a rebound witty remark like she did so often beforehand...She couldn't even stand to look at herself on TV! She seemed ashamed to me...She kept switching channels from Randa's suicide news and that guy who I forget had whatever signifigance...she just seemed so upset and regretful at the end...like she was asking herself..."What have I done?"....like sort of asking herself in terms of the fame she achieved... "Was it worth it?"
Does anyone else feel this way?

[–] theram4 17 years ago

I completely agree. I got the sense that after spending the whole movie being totally uncaring and selfish, she finally started to be aware of what she'd done. All of that, for this? For being an actress on a show? She lost everything -- family, friends, social status -- and there's only so much that one's antipathy towards others can cover for that, and I think she hit that point and came to the realization that maybe she didn't actually have the whole symphony, the whole world, under her control.

[–] recalcitrant44 17 years ago

Or maybe that she did have the world at her control, and it didn't make her happy, which was her original intention. She was distraught over losing her man, much less to her best friend, and in the process, we learned that that guy was probably the only thing that cared about her more than her.

When you lose your balance, you fall down. She was trying to pick herself up, but at the end, she still was left with less than she started with. She was moving to a person's house that barely even knew who she was, she lost all of her friends, she was responsible for the death of someone, and her only real lifeline (her father) bailed on her. Throw in the loss of her brother, and you have a person in a deep hole without a shovel.

She thought that by bringing everyone to their knees, or at least to her level, that something would ease her pain. It didn't. And it made her no better than the idiot who blew up all those people at his school.

That's how I see it.

[–] wareb_99 17 years ago

Wrong. The correct interpretation is here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381505/board/thread/92530371

[–] lp10731 17 years ago

yes.. only he is correct..

-Hows that book?
-eh, its not that great... the covers pretty good though

[–] rocknroll6483 17 years ago

what an awesome guy.

[–] borednow22 17 years ago

I read that interpretation...which by far is very good. But I disagree with the fact that she was happy at the end. When the girls were at her house watching the news Kimberly or Brittany said something about how cold he looked, like he didn't have any feelings about what he did. When she was watching him at the end she started crying. I took this to mean that she was just realizing she was just as cold as he was. I do think she was happy she got exactly what she wanted, but felt regret over Rhanda's suicide and over losing everything she had.

[–] vpal9 17 years ago

I was about to say the same thing. The "key" was this school shooter. Kimberly realized that what she had done and who she had become was not too far from that guy. And if that last shot was nothing but devastating pain then Evan Rachel Woods acting abilities are vastly overrated.

[–] suckyoudry 17 years ago

i agree with you, bored. if that other poster was right, the scene where she's playing her violin and saying, "she shouldn't have done that" about randa wouldn't have made sense. i felt it was at that point where you start to realize she's feeling remorseful. also i think the falling out she had with brittany at the very end showed her vulnerability... she acted proud and wouldn't admit to her that she felt bad about it, saying every war has it's casualties, then cries when brittany leaves and it really hits her watching the tv.

[–] trinity-dude 17 years ago

It bugs me when people say the ending of this film is bad. I for one think its perfect!
The single tear represents to much. After all Kimberley has done to get where she is and prove to everybody that she is worth something, she's watching herself on TV, now all alone with nothing and no-one in the world, and realising that all she has done is become what everyone called her all along, a dirty little whore.

[–] Chadderssssss 12 years ago

Movies are to be interpreted by the viewer, there isn't necessarily a wrong or right opinion unless specifically stated by the director himself.

[–] ThoseLittleRabbits 10 years ago

i think she felt regret. she ended up getting everything she wanted, and she thought that would make her happy but it didn't

i've got feelings too, ya know - inbetweeners