oh hello darkness my old friend I’ve
come to talk with you again
looking for closure you come to the
wrong place
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for another top
ten movies with ambiguous endings and so
it is
for this list we’re taking a look at
more big screen conclusions that leave
certain matters unresolved or open to
interpretation as if we really need to
say this
spoilers dead ahead and if you didn’t
see a film finale you thought should be
on the list be sure to check out our
first list of the top 10 movies with
ambiguous endings number 10 Rosemary’s
Baby to make baby the ending of
Rosemary’s Baby is bound to chill anyone
to the bone it’s hard to say what’s the
most disturbing part
Rosemary’s realization that she was
raped by the devil the fact that her
satanic neighbours and husband were in
on it
or that the new mother decides to
nurture the Antichrist regardless what
have you done to it what have you done
to his eyes he has his father’s eyes
what really gets under our skin though
is that we never see what becomes of
Rosemary’s Hellspawn what have you done
damn you man yeah Hagen is his father
nut guy is the human racing for a
thousand years of Darkness we’re
probably better off not knowing
number nine old boy
in this south korean mystery a man named
oh dae-su is kidnapped imprisoned and
manipulated by a puppet master once
released de su sets out to discover his
captors motives along the way he falls
in love with a young woman named Mito
– de su soror he eventually learns Mito
is his daughter and his captor utilized
hypnosis to bring them together
intimately mother good
giggles into it in the end
de su is hypnotized again to erase this
traumatizing ordeal from his memory
you
the final scene however subtly suggests
that some mental scars cannot be healed
telling you I just number 8 the gray
in one corner we have the alpha wolf
armed with a set of ferocious teeth in
the other we have Liam Neeson armed with
a knife and a fistful of glass the two
charged at one another for one hell of a
showdown and then we cut to black
if that’s not ambiguous enough a
fleeting post-credit scene reveals the
wolf struggling to breathe as Neeson
rests his head on it did Neeson survive
even if the wolf won will it survive the
answers will forever remain shaded in
the gray number seven The Shining there
are many different ways you can
interpret the final image of the shining
which reveals a photo taken in 1921 at a
fourth of July ball standing front and
center is Jack grinning among the crowd
of partygoers does it symbolize Jack
dying and joining the Overlook hotels
ghost club is Jack a reincarnation of
all the previous Hotel caretakers
trapped in a never-ending cycle
or is Stanley Kubrick simply trying to
mess with our heads
it’s an ending and a film will be
analyzing until the end of time
number six in Bruges undeniably true ray
arguably doesn’t deserve to live he
murders a priest accidentally kills a
little boy and can generally be the
rudest man I don’t want to say I’m
really sorry for karate chopping you the
other night Thomas wait who taught him
yeah we really don’t want to see him die
despite his suicidal tendencies even ray
doesn’t want to die by the end of in
Bruges if only to seek Redemption my
radio he hoped I wouldn’t tell you
I really really hoped I wouldn’t die as
he’s mortally wounded ray vows to
confess his sins to the boy’s parents
and face the consequences whether ray
lives to redeem himself remains unknown
wherever he ends up though at least
it’ll be better than Bruges come on
maybe that’s what hell is the entire
rest of eternity spent in Bruges number
five prisoners she found her whistle no
in a pursuit to find his abducted
daughter Keller Dover becomes a
figurative prisoner to his paranoia he
then becomes a literal prisoner as the
kidnapper traps him in a secret pit
Dover’s only hope is a whistle well want
to find a whistle you have to whistle
for which just barely catches the
attention of detective Loki before the
credits roll
we can only assume loki discovers the
pit and rescues dover even then however
Dover is likely to face a rough trial
for imprisoning and torturing a mentally
challenged man who was initially
believed to be the kidnapper number 4
Birdman or the unexpected virtue of
ignorance oh thank you the ending of
Birdman keeps riggan Thompson’s fate
masked in mystery when he climbs out of
a window and his daughter gazes up at
him in awe I’m gonna go get out of face
for the flowers some believe that Regan
is dead while others say he’s become
totally detached from reality the most
widely accepted theory though is that
riggan has lifted Birdman off his
shoulders by creating super realism yeah
dad
thus he can finally take flight as a
better father a better man and a serious
actor I just wanted to be what you
wanted no I spend every fucking day
trying to be somebody else somebody I’m
not since this is one superhero movie
that won’t spawn a franchise we’ll never
know for sure
number three enemy my name’s not Anthony
no I I I’m calling to speak to Daniel
st. Clair the actor enemy doesn’t spell
out whether Adam and Anthony are
supposed to be doppelgangers or if
they’re the same person
maybe we’re brothers no hurt on brother
we’re not brothers
once the movies over however the real
question you’ll be asking is where the
hell did that tremendous tarantula come
from what’s happening alluding to an
earlier scene the spider is often
thought to be symbolic of women and Adam
and/or Anthony is afraid of getting
caught in their web in other words it’s
his subconscious way of confronting
commitment either that or it’s some kind
of monster spider invasion
number two Pan’s Labyrinth No
some would describe Pan’s Labyrinth as a
fantasy these studies mustard others
describe it as a horror picture the
ending is a bit of both as Captain
Vidale shoots a philia and she awakens
in a throne room when it was a PA Amelia
I should go she’s reunited with her
parents hailed as a princess and they
all live happily ever after Olivia her
mother was angry and disability Winnie
notion t he said I would not deliver the
most importantly or do they is the
magical world all in Afilias head is it
representative of the afterlife
is it possible that only those who truly
believe can see magic this is one
bedtime story that will definitely have
us up all night
before we try to crack the Enigma that
is our top pick here are a few honorable
mentions I can’t take my eyes off you
I can’t take my eyes off you
I’ll tell the boys it was an accident of
course they’ll be devastated their
daughter will
I can only think the water incident hit
her harder than we thought horrible
accent my neighbor I’ll kill
it happened
I’ll smash my jet engine do you think
you are ill a little homesick perhaps
number one k-pax where is home
k-pax from beginning to end
k-pax keeps the audience and a
psychiatrist played by Jeff Bridges
guessing whether Kevin Spacey’s Prout is
an alien or cray-cray you think I’m
crazy
we prefer the term ill we’re given
reason to believe Prout is indeed an
extraterrestrial
we’re also led to believe he’s really
Robert Porter a man unable to cope with
the loss of his family that’s you you
and Robert Porter are the same person
that’s patently absurd I’m not even
human
either way Prout spirit is destined to
ascend from his body on July 27th
although we don’t get a conclusive
diagnosis this film’s moral is evident
make the most of your time on earth do
you agree with our list
what ambiguous movie endings are you
still trying to wrap your brain around
for more entertaining top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
come to talk with you again
looking for closure you come to the
wrong place
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for another top
ten movies with ambiguous endings and so
it is
for this list we’re taking a look at
more big screen conclusions that leave
certain matters unresolved or open to
interpretation as if we really need to
say this
spoilers dead ahead and if you didn’t
see a film finale you thought should be
on the list be sure to check out our
first list of the top 10 movies with
ambiguous endings number 10 Rosemary’s
Baby to make baby the ending of
Rosemary’s Baby is bound to chill anyone
to the bone it’s hard to say what’s the
most disturbing part
Rosemary’s realization that she was
raped by the devil the fact that her
satanic neighbours and husband were in
on it
or that the new mother decides to
nurture the Antichrist regardless what
have you done to it what have you done
to his eyes he has his father’s eyes
what really gets under our skin though
is that we never see what becomes of
Rosemary’s Hellspawn what have you done
damn you man yeah Hagen is his father
nut guy is the human racing for a
thousand years of Darkness we’re
probably better off not knowing
number nine old boy
in this south korean mystery a man named
oh dae-su is kidnapped imprisoned and
manipulated by a puppet master once
released de su sets out to discover his
captors motives along the way he falls
in love with a young woman named Mito
– de su soror he eventually learns Mito
is his daughter and his captor utilized
hypnosis to bring them together
intimately mother good
giggles into it in the end
de su is hypnotized again to erase this
traumatizing ordeal from his memory
you
the final scene however subtly suggests
that some mental scars cannot be healed
telling you I just number 8 the gray
in one corner we have the alpha wolf
armed with a set of ferocious teeth in
the other we have Liam Neeson armed with
a knife and a fistful of glass the two
charged at one another for one hell of a
showdown and then we cut to black
if that’s not ambiguous enough a
fleeting post-credit scene reveals the
wolf struggling to breathe as Neeson
rests his head on it did Neeson survive
even if the wolf won will it survive the
answers will forever remain shaded in
the gray number seven The Shining there
are many different ways you can
interpret the final image of the shining
which reveals a photo taken in 1921 at a
fourth of July ball standing front and
center is Jack grinning among the crowd
of partygoers does it symbolize Jack
dying and joining the Overlook hotels
ghost club is Jack a reincarnation of
all the previous Hotel caretakers
trapped in a never-ending cycle
or is Stanley Kubrick simply trying to
mess with our heads
it’s an ending and a film will be
analyzing until the end of time
number six in Bruges undeniably true ray
arguably doesn’t deserve to live he
murders a priest accidentally kills a
little boy and can generally be the
rudest man I don’t want to say I’m
really sorry for karate chopping you the
other night Thomas wait who taught him
yeah we really don’t want to see him die
despite his suicidal tendencies even ray
doesn’t want to die by the end of in
Bruges if only to seek Redemption my
radio he hoped I wouldn’t tell you
I really really hoped I wouldn’t die as
he’s mortally wounded ray vows to
confess his sins to the boy’s parents
and face the consequences whether ray
lives to redeem himself remains unknown
wherever he ends up though at least
it’ll be better than Bruges come on
maybe that’s what hell is the entire
rest of eternity spent in Bruges number
five prisoners she found her whistle no
in a pursuit to find his abducted
daughter Keller Dover becomes a
figurative prisoner to his paranoia he
then becomes a literal prisoner as the
kidnapper traps him in a secret pit
Dover’s only hope is a whistle well want
to find a whistle you have to whistle
for which just barely catches the
attention of detective Loki before the
credits roll
we can only assume loki discovers the
pit and rescues dover even then however
Dover is likely to face a rough trial
for imprisoning and torturing a mentally
challenged man who was initially
believed to be the kidnapper number 4
Birdman or the unexpected virtue of
ignorance oh thank you the ending of
Birdman keeps riggan Thompson’s fate
masked in mystery when he climbs out of
a window and his daughter gazes up at
him in awe I’m gonna go get out of face
for the flowers some believe that Regan
is dead while others say he’s become
totally detached from reality the most
widely accepted theory though is that
riggan has lifted Birdman off his
shoulders by creating super realism yeah
dad
thus he can finally take flight as a
better father a better man and a serious
actor I just wanted to be what you
wanted no I spend every fucking day
trying to be somebody else somebody I’m
not since this is one superhero movie
that won’t spawn a franchise we’ll never
know for sure
number three enemy my name’s not Anthony
no I I I’m calling to speak to Daniel
st. Clair the actor enemy doesn’t spell
out whether Adam and Anthony are
supposed to be doppelgangers or if
they’re the same person
maybe we’re brothers no hurt on brother
we’re not brothers
once the movies over however the real
question you’ll be asking is where the
hell did that tremendous tarantula come
from what’s happening alluding to an
earlier scene the spider is often
thought to be symbolic of women and Adam
and/or Anthony is afraid of getting
caught in their web in other words it’s
his subconscious way of confronting
commitment either that or it’s some kind
of monster spider invasion
number two Pan’s Labyrinth No
some would describe Pan’s Labyrinth as a
fantasy these studies mustard others
describe it as a horror picture the
ending is a bit of both as Captain
Vidale shoots a philia and she awakens
in a throne room when it was a PA Amelia
I should go she’s reunited with her
parents hailed as a princess and they
all live happily ever after Olivia her
mother was angry and disability Winnie
notion t he said I would not deliver the
most importantly or do they is the
magical world all in Afilias head is it
representative of the afterlife
is it possible that only those who truly
believe can see magic this is one
bedtime story that will definitely have
us up all night
before we try to crack the Enigma that
is our top pick here are a few honorable
mentions I can’t take my eyes off you
I can’t take my eyes off you
I’ll tell the boys it was an accident of
course they’ll be devastated their
daughter will
I can only think the water incident hit
her harder than we thought horrible
accent my neighbor I’ll kill
it happened
I’ll smash my jet engine do you think
you are ill a little homesick perhaps
number one k-pax where is home
k-pax from beginning to end
k-pax keeps the audience and a
psychiatrist played by Jeff Bridges
guessing whether Kevin Spacey’s Prout is
an alien or cray-cray you think I’m
crazy
we prefer the term ill we’re given
reason to believe Prout is indeed an
extraterrestrial
we’re also led to believe he’s really
Robert Porter a man unable to cope with
the loss of his family that’s you you
and Robert Porter are the same person
that’s patently absurd I’m not even
human
either way Prout spirit is destined to
ascend from his body on July 27th
although we don’t get a conclusive
diagnosis this film’s moral is evident
make the most of your time on earth do
you agree with our list
what ambiguous movie endings are you
still trying to wrap your brain around
for more entertaining top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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