If you watch and listen closely you can tell that Teddy has been cured or is back to normal and that he is just faking it to act like as if he is not.
He wants the lobotomy to be turned into a vegetable so that he forgets the past and what happened to his wife and kids rather than to live with that reality for the rest of his life.
It really is a good twist ending.
or in other words
"and it was all a dream"
a real cop out ending
I admit that this movie is a bit too contrived and goes on too long, but Warren is right about the ending.
He's faking being insane because he wants the lobotomy to forget what he did. Even the psychologist is arguing that he doesn't need the lobotomy.
Say what?
Where are you getting it that I am suggesting it was a dream at all?
It wasn't.
The workers along with his former partner set him up with a fantasy to act out to cure him and it worked.
And then he decided that he did not want to live with that cure and wanted to be "cured," with a lobotomy instead.
sorry yeah my reply was a little flippant , i wasnt suggesting you thought that , it was my (probably incorrect) overriding impression and disappointment , at the twist.
OK
Thanx for clarifying.
If you are disappointed at this ending do you have an idea for an ending you would have preferred instead?