This video essay analyzes some of cinema's most well known ambiguous endings. The ending of a movie is so important, but then why do some directors not just tell us the final details? Why are we left uncertain of what the ending means? This video will examine why ambiguous endings work and why they don't, taking a closer look at Lost in Translation, 2001: A Space Odyssey, American Psycho, Inception, Triangle of Sadness and The Thing

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Music used:
Voices of Spring by Human Symphony Orchestra (Shutterstock)
Rosas - Over the Waves by Leo Symphony Orchestra (Shutterstock)
Nebular Focus by Dan Henig
William Tell Overture by Rossini
Sonora by Quincas Moreira
Moldau by Human Symphony Orchestra (Shutterstock)
Conception by Mocha Music (Shutterstock)
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"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Timestamps:
0:00 Ambiguous Endings
1:56 The Director
3:18 Lost in Translation
4:03 Confusing Endings
4:20 2001 A Space Odyssey
5:42 The Whale, The Wrestler, Black Swan
6:21 Different Forms of Ambiguity
6:45 The Shining
7:02 What was that all About?!
7:30 The Italian Job
7:44 The Grey
8:02 Taxi Driver
8:40 Thematic Continuity
9:42 Triangle of Sadness
11:48 American Psycho
12:56 The Thing
13:32 Conclusion/Summary

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