It is shameful for the director not to explain this kind of behavior.
The characters in the play can have two interpretations of Dave's death, dead or missing. Either way, this ending of the movie is incomplete.
If Dave finally understood it in terms of death, then her wife, children, parents, friends, etc. would want to know who killed it, and the police will investigate accordingly. If the final investigation is unsuccessful, the body can be found. Leave traces. But the plot of his wife, son's parents and others has not been arranged at all. These people must want to find the murderer and understand why someone wants to kill him. These movies are not given. It seems reasonable that no one will pursue it. It's over. After feeding him so much that Dave was a murderer, wouldn't the wife suspect that Jimmy killed him, neither the police nor Dave's relatives responded at all. It's confusing, but you made it clear.
Dave if understood in terms of disappearance. Jimmy sends money to their family every month. Then there is no need to contact the person involved in the case of the pedophile murder. After all, the pedophile was killed by Dave. If Dave is guilty of killing the pedophile, the police must arrest him. Sending money to Dave's house shows that the person is still alive. If Dave is innocent of killing the pedophile, will the police not care, will there be no judicial process to go, and the family and friends of the pedophile will not care, will they not be held accountable? Die to die? If you kill a criminal in America no one will come to you? None of these explanations.
No matter what kind of values your director wants to convey, no matter the arrangement of fate, the survival of the strong, etc., can you tell me your story well? Some stories can end abruptly, and the protagonist dies without any explanation. This is a mess, it's the worst ending I've ever seen.
Adding these plots is a matter of three or five minutes, or even a series of subtitles can do it. As an audience, I feel like I was being played. If this is the reaction the director wants, then he really succeeded, and I feel the director's deep feelings. malicious.
If you say that the movie needs to be left blank, the director doesn't want to make everything clear and give the audience room to imagine. But this is not a blank, the story is not finished yet. It's the equivalent of preparing for the exam hard, then taking the gaokao with confidence, but not checking your gaokao scores. You say how hard you work and how serious you are, and everyone has seen it, but where is your rationality? You also don't say whether you're going to college or not, or any reason for doing so. Isn't it confusing, if this is some kind of lofty trick, then who doesn't, I will design a series of very bizarre murders, keep investigating, let the audience know who the murderer is, and then end the movie/television, the plot I don't say what happened later, just stop there, and the people in the story continue to live as if nothing happened. No one pursued, no investigation, as if nothing happened. Then I can be a bit more avant-garde, halfway through the story and go directly to the end credits list, no, it's over. Surprise or not, surprise or not, I didn't expect it, this is the ending, there is no more later.
The director raped the story to the end in order to express his theme. After reading it, I didn't want to delve into his subject at all, but was rather impatient. I think finishing the story is the director's most basic respect for the audience, and this movie doesn't do that.
If this story is to end abruptly, there is actually a very good place to choose, that is, in the end, Jimmy is sitting on the street with wine, and Scen comes over and tells him that we have found the murderer. Jimmy finds something wrong, Killers? Did you kill the wrong person? The scene where he finds something wrong can be used as the ending. What will happen to Jimmy later? Dave's wife is facing this again, has Scen brought Jimmy to justice?
The director wants to explain later, so why don't you just explain it completely? Either you don't talk about it, or you talk about it completely! You're going to end up rape just because your subject didn't come out completely and directly? Rubbish!
All in all, this way of not explaining the ending of one of the three main characters in the play is worth spurning.
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