The ending is so wrong.
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jmillerdp — 9 years ago(July 14, 2016 07:50 PM)
It's like the popular story "The Lottery." Or the movie "The Wicker Man." An insular, secretive community that's hiding a pitch dark secret. And, an innocent, or innocents, are doomed to be taken down by it.
Ira Levin devised the most diabolical horror plots ever. And, he likes to ride them to their end. This book/movie follows that trend.
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It is so completely evil! And, I so completely love it! It's one of those cinematic moments where my tears are welling up. Not because of sadness. But, of joy at how cinematically perfect the moment is. Beautifully freaky, including Owen Roizman's cinematography, and Dick Smith's makeup work on Katherine Ross. I so wish this would get a restoration and a Blu-ray.
Plus, the fact that the robot is the one who kills the original is just absolutely twisted.
For those wanting a "happy ending," you get it! It's just a purely EVIL happy ending, as shown in the still photos of the "idyllic" new Katherine Ross with her family.
I. Drink. Your. Milkshake! [slurp!] I DRINK IT UP! - Daniel Plainview - There Will Be Blood -
scorp_gal_03 — 9 years ago(July 15, 2016 12:48 PM)
My problem with the ending was that Joanna just seemed to give up when she spotted the robot. Why wouldn't she have at least tried to fight it off? It didn't seem true to her character to just accept what was happening.
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MissMargoChanning — 9 years ago(July 17, 2016 03:20 PM)
Perhaps she was still trying to register it all.
Even after stabbing my friend and seeing what I had seen, I am still not so sure that I could comprehend the sight of this robot who looks like me even BETTER than me in a carbon copy of my bedroom. I'd be a bit stunned by it all. I'd still be reeling at the thought of such a betrayal on my husband's part.
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night" -
Woodyanders — 6 years ago(August 03, 2019 03:22 PM)
I love that this movie didn't punk out with some cliché and contrived Hollywood happy ending. This film certainly has the strength of its own grim convictions as far as the central premise is concerned.
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MissMargoChanning — 6 years ago(August 03, 2019 07:54 PM)
I'm also happy that it ended the way it did.
It's basically the way Ira Levin wrote it. No need for any changes.
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
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Woodyanders — 6 years ago(August 04, 2019 01:44 AM)
The element of betrayal at the end gives it an extra emotional gut punch. The whole fact that Joanna was betrayed by her own husband – a man that she basically loved and trusted or at least once did – is what makes the ending so chilling and upsetting. The same thing happens to Rosemary at the end of Rosemary's Baby. So the theme of betrayal is a constant one in Levin's work.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything. -
Melton1 — 5 months ago(October 22, 2025 12:00 PM)
That’s because Levin is an evil feminist who uses his novels to turn women against men, portraying husbands as evil, toxic manipulators. He’s trying to dissuade women from becoming wives and mothers as part of the Communist goal of destroying the family structure.
Gotta give him credit though - he’s a master of this kind of conspiracy horror.