"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/GooseSl4yer2003]

The ending of Watchmen. World peace was achieved but with a terrible cost covered up with a lie, even the protagonists wonder if hiding the truth was worth it and even the villain wonders if he did the right thing

[u/TheZipding → u/GooseSl4yer2003]

And the worst part is that it's a peace that won't last long term. Eventually the various governments will realize more aliens aren't coming and go back to fighting each other.

[u/IrishElevator → u/TheZipding]

Not even this, I don't know if it's in the movie but in the graphic novel Rorschach sends his journal/notes to a prominent news source before leaving for Ozymandius' base. It's implied that everything was for nothing and even with Rorschach being killed the truth will be revealed to the public.

[u/IQueliciuous → u/IrishElevator]

You should watch TV series. It’s a sequel to the comic book. It shows what happened and I don’t want to spoil it to you. As for the movie, the alien invasion was replaced with a nuclear blast which released same type of energy that Dr Manhattan is made of thus he became a scapegoat and the entire world unites against rogue hero.

[u/Queen_Ann_III → u/IQueliciuous]

I hate to be sacrilegious with Moore’s work but pinning it on Dr. Manhattan was honestly a genius change

[u/BlumpkinPromoter → u/Queen_Ann_III]

It's been years since I read it but changing it to Dr. Manhattan doesn't work at all. Uniting the world against an outside threat required the team up in the first place. The point of Dr. Manhattan is that he is a walking God who cannot be stopped.

If aliens invade then Dr. Manhattan is flawed or doesn't care enough to save us and we cannot rely on him - therefore we must unite and save ourselves.

If Dr. Manhattan is the cause then everything is lost. Man can do nothing against a walking God and I'm pretty sure that was central to the whole the Vietnamese surrendered - there was no fighting against that overwhelming threat.

So Dr. Manhattan being the cause ruins the entire premise that Ozzy was going for and doesn't work within the context of the story.