Perhaps we believe that Edward decided to kill himself-similar to how Tony dies in the Book. Or perhaps we believe that he is still “weak” and that he cannot stomach trying to see Susan again. We can interpret his absence as him having a sinister motive and that he did so as an act of revenge.
#Nocturnal animals ending interpretation movie#
I think above is very interesting since Tom correctly suggests that there is nothing in the movie that really tells us why Edward doesn’t show up. We don’t know what the next chapter is for her, but chapter is over. She’s wiped off that lipstick, and she is not going back to that life. She is liberated, by the way, at the end. I don’t know if she figures out what Edward is trying to say in the book, but she recognizes that she still has feelings for him and that she must get out of the life she currently lives in:ĭoes he not show up as an act of revenge, or does he not show up because he just literally can’t face her? seems the correct conclusion to me, because she falls in love with him again through reading. It’s about how she interprets, visualizes, and processes what Edward wrote to figure out why he credits her for the book. But we are not entirely sure if that is what Edward intended or if that’s how Susan is visualizing the book that her ex-husband wrote-especially in light of her actions 19 years ago.įor what it’s worth, what Tom Ford said about the ending somewhat suggests that the entire movie is really about Susan. For example, we see that Edward and Tony are played by the same actor and that Tony’s wife/daughter looks similar to Susan. Finally, we have a general sense of what the story is although we are not entirely sure what he actually wrote since we are experiencing his book through the eyes of Susan. We know that he dedicated the book to Susan and that he credits her being the inspiration.
We know that he wrote two messages to Susan: one in the initial letter, and the other in the email that we wrote. We know that he finally finished a book and that a publisher agreed to publish it. One thing I notice about the movie is that we know virtually nothing about Edward in the most recent time line. In fact, I think Tom Ford leaves a strong clue that Edward didn’t necessarily intend Tony to be his exact copy since his letter to Susan states that this book is “different than the kind of things that I was writing when we were together.” Similarly, we see that the same actor plays both Tony and Edward-but is that what Edward intended, or is that because that’s how Susan visualizes Tony? Perhaps Susan visualizes Tony that way based on how Edward’s past work (which apparently featured himself as the main protagonist in an obvious way). But the movie doesn’t give us much clues on whether Edward wrote them as being red haired or if Susan is visualizing them that way because of her past with Edward. For example, we see Tony’s wife and daughter as being red haired. So if she is seeing the same character in both real life and her visualization, it suggests that everything we see is filtered through Susan’s eyes. I initially thought it was a stupid scene until I realized that the jump scare “villain” is also Ray. There is various evidence of this including that jump scare. While I suppose one could disagree, the movie suggests we are watching Susan’s visualization of what Edward wrote. One factor we must consider here is that we-as the viewer-do not have the luxury of actually reading what Edward wrote.
I don’t know if I agree with the interpretation that Edward sought some kind of revenge against Susan.
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