Significance of Last Scene?
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rawkhard — 19 years ago(February 09, 2007 04:01 PM)
He had excaped from the facility. He had no one, and he really had nowhere to go to, so he was at that lounge. Dr. Bryce was told that Newton frequented that place, so the waiter probably saw him on a regular basis.
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Lu_tz — 18 years ago(September 15, 2007 05:42 AM)
I thought that grog didn't effect him the way it does humans? So he had become an emotional cripple. When the waiter says he has had enough he thinks he is drunk but he isn't. He has given up.
Also, the last scene very much goes back to the conversation that was had during the ping-pong game about what he had on his own planet. The last scene was saying that on earth we have all these things but we don't love each other. -
jimmydeansmoked — 17 years ago(December 04, 2008 11:36 PM)
In the movie version, he's definitely not blinded. When he leaves the house near the end he looks up at the floor number of the elevator and at other things (no, it's not the direction of noise). The waiter thinking he's had enough was per the spilled glass on the floor. Although it may be a metaphor, enough or not, he has nowhere to go now.
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j_gold422 — 17 years ago(January 18, 2009 11:35 PM)
I thought that he was dead. I have only seen the Criterion Edition that is supposedly extended by a bit, but there was a very long shot at the end when the credits rolled where his head was down and he didnt move, and this was not a still frame because the bushes and people in background were moving. I just thought that he had essentially fallen victim to the myriad vices that befall earthlings, specifically Americans.
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GoldMorning — 17 years ago(February 07, 2009 07:13 AM)
Did no one else notice that the government were still watching him at the end of the movie. This was shown by the helicoptor flying around and Tommy looks up and sees it.
I thought he'd given up emotionally and psychologically and hung his head in drunken stuporBowie even hiccups before doing so.
The waiter was just saying he'd had enough booze but Bryce took it further by implying he'd had enough of Earth but sadly nothing can be done. -
Bree_33 — 12 years ago(July 06, 2013 12:27 PM)
I think maybe Mr. Newton has had enough, dont you?
What a great last line:
it's an image of total defeat, surrender to all the worst we as a race can offer a visitor.- __@
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