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