Essay: First Frame, Last Frame

Period. Fade out. The End...

A great ending should be surprising but expected, they say. They also say a bad movie with a good ending can be forgiven, while a good movie with a bad ending can't.

Do the great endings always echo the start? 

This is a stressfree purely random collection where I compare the beginning and ending of films.


The Living End (1992) by Gregg Araki

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) by Jim Jarmusch

A Bigger Splash (2015) by Luca Guadagnino

The Beast (2023) by Bertrand Bonello

What ever happened to Baby Jane (1962) by Robert Aldrich

Pain and Glory (2019) by Pedro Almodovar