• Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 days ago

    End was odd. Such a good mystery and intrigue movie and the end just wasn’t. I dislike “out of the blue” things you can’t see coming.

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      12 days ago

      See, if you do have a bit of knowledge on current catholic church politics and pick up of some clues early on in the movie you can definitely see the ending coming. It’s not unguessable.

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        12 days ago

        I agree that the end is not unguessable, but it’s pure wish fulfillment, and it’s not earned by the characters involved.

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          11 days ago

          Yeah the ending is perfectly fine in theory, there just isn’t enough dedicated to it throughout the rest of the film for it to work effectively. I haven’t read the novel so I wonder if that did a better job in this regard.

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      12 days ago

      I agree, completely unearned. My headcanon has the movie end quite differently and more satisfactorily (but I won’t give spoilers).