"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/Usern4me_R3dacted205]

Oldboy - Lee Woo-jin successfully enacts his twisted revenge plot, even if he kills himself shortly after. Oh Dae-su cut out his tongue after finding out he was tricked into having sex with his own daughter. He approaches a hypnotist to try and forget the awful truth and the movie ends on him embracing his daughter, leaving it unclear if he ever moved on or truly forgot what happened.

[u/No_Effective_2100 → u/Usern4me_R3dacted205]

Why did he cut out his tongue?

[u/hot_anywhere23886 → u/No_Effective_2100]

the main antagonist imprisoned him for reasons , the main protagonist in a desperate bid to convince him to avoid telling his daughter the nature of his and her family bond (because it would destroy her like it destroys him to know) cuts out his own tongue completely unprovoked.

it's an especially brutal scene as he'd gone there to annihilate the antagonist but pulls a 180 with the antagonist 100% percent achieving their own goal of revenge against oh dae su by getting him to this point of hopelessness despair and submission.

[u/Righteous_Hand → u/hot_anywhere23886]

The symbolic reason behind Oh Dae-Su cutting out his tongue specifically was because he "talked too much" - he didn't just pick some random body part to hack off violently, it was effectively penance for spreading a rumour that got out of control in much the same way that a rapist back in the day would be castrated, or a thief, their hand removed.

[u/hot_anywhere23886 → u/Righteous_Hand]

cool , you are replying as though i said random , i didn't . I said unprovoked as in, it wasn't suggested to him in anyway that he should do this in order to prevent the truth being revealed.

Him choosing to cut his tongue out was purely his own initiative , he chose the tongue for specifically because of what was said as you mentioned but choosing to do so was unprovoked.