Many narrative features face the problem of how to end their narratives, or how to resolve in a convincing way the dilemmas or conflicts upon which they are based.
The endings of many mainstream Hollywood pictures strongly or partially reaffirm the monogamous heterogeneous couple, but sometimes the affirmation is troubled.
Then there are films, which just end, without resolving satisfactorily the narrative tensions
Relevant Films with Problematic Endings (in alphabetical order)
Alice Adams, 1935
The Bad Seed, 1956
The Birds, 1963
Brazil, 1985
Broadcast News, 1987
The Children’s Hour, 1961
Countdown, 1968
The Crowd, 1928
Elephant Walk
The Eve of St. Mark, 1944
Fatal Attraction, 1987
The Fly, 1986
The Fortune Cookie, 1966
Fury, 1936
Hunt of the Last October, 1990
Invasion of the Body Snatcher, 1956
A Letter to Three Wives, 1949
The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942
Meet John Doe, 1941
Peggy Sue Got Married, 1986
Places in the Heart, 1984
Pretty in Pink, 1986
Pygmalion, 1938; My Fair Lady, 1964
Roxanne, 1987
A Soldier’s Story, 1984
Sweet Bird of Youth, 1962
Talk of the Town, 1942
Thelma and Louise, 1991
The Third Man, 1949
Woman of the Year, 1942
Elephant Walk:
The speech of old woman about it in book store, where Elizabeth Taylor works.
The Third Man
Ann (Alida Valli) just walks away, ignoring Holly Martin (Jospeh Cotten) and the camera.
Movie Endings: Troubled Resolutions
Many narrative features face the problem of how to end their narratives, or how to resolve in a convincing way the dilemmas or conflicts upon which they are based.
The endings of many mainstream Hollywood pictures strongly or partially reaffirm the monogamous heterogeneous couple, but sometimes the affirmation is troubled.
Then there are films, which just end, without resolving satisfactorily the narrative tensions
Relevant Films with Problematic Endings (in alphabetical order)
Alice Adams, 1935
The Bad Seed, 1956
The Birds, 1963
Brazil, 1985
Broadcast News, 1987
The Children’s Hour, 1961
Countdown, 1968
The Crowd, 1928
Elephant Walk
The Eve of St. Mark, 1944
Fatal Attraction, 1987
The Fly, 1986
The Fortune Cookie, 1966
Fury, 1936
Hunt of the Last October, 1990
Invasion of the Body Snatcher, 1956
A Letter to Three Wives, 1949
The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942
Meet John Doe, 1941
Peggy Sue Got Married, 1986
Places in the Heart, 1984
Pretty in Pink, 1986
Pygmalion, 1938; My Fair Lady, 1964
Roxanne, 1987
A Soldier’s Story, 1984
Sweet Bird of Youth, 1962
Talk of the Town, 1942
Thelma and Louise, 1991
The Third Man, 1949
Woman of the Year, 1942
Elephant Walk:
The speech of old woman about it in book store, where Elizabeth Taylor works.
The Third Man
Ann (Alida Valli) just walks away, ignoring Holly Martin (Jospeh Cotten) and the camera.