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How It Should Have Ended --Add your own!--

posted 9 years ago by n-milo
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Loved the movie, but with such an ambiguous end, I couldn't help but add to it... continuing on from where the movie originally ended, I went with a take on a Hollywood Cliché end (yes, I know this is in no way faithful to the source material, but I wanted to have fun with it... please add your own!)

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Near sighted woman sitting by herself in the Restaurant, someone walks up to her just off screen, she turns to the ominous presence.

David walks out of the bathroom defeated, unable to blind himself. Walks to booth, but she’s gone!

He hears her scream his name, looks out window to see the Short Sighted Woman right before she’s tranquilized and dragged into the Hotel Bus.

He runs outside as the bus takes off… He continues running as the bus vanishes in the distance.

——

David arrives at the Hotel, heaving and covered in sweat. He ran the whole way and its now night… the bus is parked out front.

Inside the hotel, the Short Sighted Woman wakes up in the Transformation room… She starts screaming.

David hears the screams [yes... lots of screaming] and heads towards them-- sneaks into the hotel (using his skills gained from the Loners), He’s dodging guards and taking out guests left and right…. He manages to grab a tranquilizer gun off the last guard he encounters (they’re standing just outside the Transformation room.)

David opens the door, dramatic reveal: the Loner Leader is there (oh yeah, she survived the whole dog attack and escaped the grave… only she’s gnarled and bloody, looking every part the monster she really is…)

Long story short: She knocks the tranquilizer gun from Davids grasp, they fight, she gets the upper hand and is about to kill David with a scalpel...

She then says something here, to the effect that she’s been in-cahoots with the Hotel the whole time… or insert any other fitting big twist cliché.

Right before she’s about to deliver the final blow, she’s shot by the tranquilizer gun— Reveal: the near sighted woman holding the gun, she just pulled off some very Daredevil-ish skills (blind but uses her other senses.)

David and the Near Sighted woman embrace… She says something about being thankful that he didn’t skewer himself with the knife, he apologizes that he didn’t join her… she replies with a joke that makes everything alright (a play on the ‘blind leading the blind')

They look over the unconscious Loner Leader, David has an aha moment.

Fade to--

POV: eyes opening on Davids face.

The Short Sighted woman, her eyesight now restored! --they embrace one more time [gotta love 'dem embraces!]

Loner leader lies unconscious on the operating table… ehhh, lets make her dead--

Kk, so Loner Leader is dead on the operating table, she’s got hollowed out eye sockets. David explains that he used the transformation skills he gained when he transformed the heartless woman into an animal — He continues, says he first learned about the procedure when the Limping man brought it up at dinner one night [remember that scene?]

David goes into details, organ transplants etc… Near Sighted Woman cuts him off as she realizes…

'OMG… I can see you so clearly now.' She starts to get it… blinks, opens he eyes wide, scans the room, ‘I don’t need contacts!'

David face turns sour.

'I’m not Near Sighted anymore!' she exclaims.

David turns and looks to the camera, with an 'awwwww shucks!' look on his face.

Freeze frame on David's expression as we fade to black.

[–] kerouac-49783 8 years ago

I think after sitting in the booth for as long as she did the waiter should have brought her a lobster.

[–] JaniceMarieFoote 8 years ago

The fade to black part makes me think he successfully blinded himself.

Though I would like to have seen him next stumble awkwardly back to their booth to join shortsighted aka blind lady. They then order and eat. Shortly after it fades to an end as they gingerly saunter through the city as a newly born blind couple.

This is my ending to this movie.

FYI I really enjoyed the rest of it!
Whatever that says about me, who knows!!!

[–] phillyboots 8 years ago

Best part of the ending is the sublinal suggestion that you continue talking about this film.

I believe he may have actually gone ahead with it due to the implied importance of having things in common with your partner.

May you receive all that Karma has to offer.

[–] tylerlkeller 8 years ago

The ending needs nothing more. Like Inception's spinning top, the point of ambiguity isn't the important issue. In Inception, it doesn't matter whether the top falls or not, because Cobb has made the decision to be with his family and give up his guilt over Mal's death. In The Lobster, it doesn't matter whether David come back or not, because no matter what his decision, he still holds this falsified notion of love based on similarity and "suitability". If David blinds himself, it's out of this misguided desire to be more like The Short Sighted Woman. Blinding himself would still be a sacrifice, yes, and one made out of love, but it would still be a misguided love. If David leaves, it is because he doesn't believe he and The Short Sighted Woman are compatible, since she is now blind, and he is unwilling to make the sacrifice to be compatible. The ambiguous ending leaves open to interpretation whether or not David's true, real love resides with The Short Sighted Woman, but his real love is still blinded by this absurd rationale imposed on him by the society.

[–] hafaball-1 8 years ago

As they're running to the city, the van is coming towards them. With not enough time, he decides to push her over the side and he gets captured himself. She finds her way back to the Loners while, under new management, he's back at the hotel, but because he escaped, he's turned into an animal, but is allowed to turn into a lobster.

Years later, a new male friend of Short Sighted Woman brings her a lobster, and they both eat it! Muhahaha!

I know it doesn't look like it, but that little bird is really a dove asking us for world peace

[–] Mr.Big 8 years ago

Bingo

[–] tpmilloy 8 years ago

I think they should have shown David in the bathroom, preparing to blind himself, trying and trying but he just can't do it. He lowers the knife with a heavy sigh of defeat and... abrupt cut to: beautifully stunning photography of lobsters in the ocean while the credits roll.

[–] sharon-gregory888 8 years ago

As much as I think he may have really blinded himself, I think there's a valid reason to believe he faked it instead: -

Earlier in the film, he does a pretty decent job of faking being a psychopath (kicking a girl in the shins, barely reacting when he sees his brother was brutlly murdered). And before that, the narration says, "He figured it was easier to pretend to not have feelings when you do, than to pretend you do have feelings when you don't."

It's easier to pretend to be blind - or a psychopath, or whatever your partner is - than to pretend to have feeling (or senses) you don't have.

For this reason, I think he would bandage his eyes over and lie, and say he was blind.

But I could also believe he really did it, as well.

P.S. I also love tpmilloy's ending above me.

[–] jonathanflatman 8 years ago

I thought that the ending was abrupt as if a film reel was missing, the cast had given up or run out of money. I too was expecting a final cut to two lobsters in the sea which would had given a tidy closure and watched the film through to the final credits waiting for it; but I suspect that a definitive ending was never the intention of the director.

[–] mmserrano4 8 years ago

Except it wasn't supposed to be an easily digestible rom-com popcorn flick that builds into an outrageous third act action scene.

Those seven years of MacGyver finally payed off

[–] dsmilos 8 years ago

Did we watch the same movie? I thought thats exactly what it was supposed to be :/

8 years of MacGyver (if you count the reboot ...I do)

[–] mmserrano4 8 years ago

What action scene was there? There were scenes of suspense, yes, but no action scenes like in Adaptation (also a great movie).

The reboot is absolutely garbage and that's a quote from an episode of Chuck.

Those seven years of MacGyver finally payed off

[–] ElphieDefyingGravity 8 years ago

I loved the movie as well, and hated the ending. Total existential bullsh#$, although I'm having a hard time coming up with something else...maybe a shot of them walking into the transformation room, and a final shot of two lobsters crawling along the ocean floor (did you know lobsters are blind AND they mate for life?).

Whatever the end, it should have been met with "howls of execration"!

Et lux perpetua luceat eis

[–] rjmmcelroy 8 years ago

Yes! This is the ending that actually answers the movie's themes. Maybe THIS filmmaker tried to NOT conform. It left a sense of bitterness with just about everyone in the audience... which might well have been the point.

Regardless, it was not a satisfying movie. Unique; but, I'd avoid future films from this filmmaker.

[–] crystldawn (8) 6 years ago

did you know lobsters are blind AND they mate for life?

This is a perfect counterpoint to the supposition that ending with a screenshot of "The Lobster" indicates he couldn't blind himself and became a lobster. Alternatively, "becoming" a lobster could mean he blinded himself and DID mate for life.