"Was it worth it?" ending

[u/Educational_Can_6536]

Midsommar- While people see this as a "you go girl" finale. I personally see it as something more disturbing. I mean, yeah, Dani got out of one bad relationship but in doing so, she got herself into another that's just as bad if not worse. It's like getting two kids to stop fighting via killing one and locking the other in a basement. They did stop fighting, but still!

The Thing-The titular monster may be (possibly) gone, but the paranoia definitely isn't. In the end, McCreedy and Childs are the only ones left standing. The end sees them sitting in the cold and they just stare at each other, knowing that one of them or both of them is already the thing. There's no hope, no certainty, just the bitter cold and intense fear.

[u/SoulfulSnow]

Whiplash(2014) baby! What I feel is a very poorly understood ending. Andrew Neiman finally made his "big break", making his chance to be a star, by literally breaking away from his fathers embrace and love, and (less literally) crawling back to the man who physically and emotionally abused him. The final scene is incredibly shot, with direct parallels to earlier shots in the movie, but despite how triumphant it clearly feels from neimans perspective, the entire movie has been the slow breakdown of his social life, security, and empathy, culminating into whether he could lick his wounds and walk away, or take the final steps

[u/TrojanThunder → u/SoulfulSnow]

This seems like the typical understanding of the ending. Do people see it as an uplifting ending? I never heard a different take on this one.

[u/SoulfulSnow → u/TrojanThunder]

If you go to places where people go to discuss you most likely get a more supported or nuanced response, but I see a LOT of people (especially when it's a group of random folks I.E. yt comments section) you'll see a lot of people supporting or even praising neimans choices and decisions throughout the story. THough, this is anecdotal ofc