Ghost World Ending Scenes

[@Volgotha]

Enid didn't fit in this place.Not with her family, not with her best friend, not with Seymour. Everything around her was changing, so the one thing she took comfort in was that the old man would always be there sitting at his bench, until even that changed. Like her, he was a ghost. So, she went to see where ghosts go, and left the place she never belonged in. I miss my friends and my old life but I had to leave it when it fell apart too. I guess thats why this movie struck me so much when i first saw it in college.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Beautifully said. Thank you for sharing.

[@christopherseat9871]

Me too.

[@Jim_L]

And people wonder why vast numbers of humans are so enamored with alcohol consumption and/or other mind-altering substances?! Whatever it takes to get us through this cold, enormous struggle of daily existence, especially for those of us who don't quite fit in this world. Thank goodness for music, for art, for dancing, for films, for books, and for nature to help make the struggle a little bit easier.

[@royery]

I don't think they committed suicide. The old man could've killed himself a long time ago since he was always there "waiting for the bus", so why wait all that time? That old man was treated as a "ghost" by society, he was there but people didn't see him... you know what I mean? By the end of the movie Enid felt like a "ghost" because she saw that the two closest people to her were slowly becoming distant from her, and she felt lonely. That's why the movie is called Ghost World, because it's the world where people who have been rejected by society, people who are outsiders, outcasts, who does not fit in, etc, live in.

[@solsantana6440]

great thanks

[@melissab3217]

I think it's left to be interpreted either way.

[@KaiDecadence]

Finally someone gets it lol I do think that Melissa is right that it can be left to interpretation but I feel like ultimately it was about what you said, the feeling of alienation and being left behind by those who you used to be close with. To people who find it hard to fit into society because they're just too different from the norm and can't find others like themselves, you really do end up feeling like a ghost. People may think that the character Enid was a bit dramatic towards the end but that's not the case at all and to anyone who ever felt isolated and lonely, they probably understood how Enid was feeling towards the end of the movie, I know I did lol.

[@pistachiosandpopcorn7146]

So...she is the one that blew Seymour off (haha). She only has herself to blame for that one.

[@alejandrocurado5134]

Yes, I agree. But to disappear completely, she must get on that bus, like the old man and leave that ghost world to join a different one. I think she dies in the end

[@seeyouagain911]

I miss movies like this.

[@luckyvanilla388]

But there are none ...

[@SteelBallRun1890]

They still exist, they're called cult films and indie films.

[@eabha6121]

what are some similar ones?

[@TheLinuxYes]

Now bollywood just makes cookie cutter movies where Enid kills the bus driver, then norman, then herself. Its a juicy one!!

[@pablolua]

He was the only constant for her. He was always there. I think her seeing an empty bench was the last straw . The bus arriving and taking her away from the world.

[@SpettroFamily]

like the old man was the hope always there ? and when the last hope is gone she's gone too ?

[@jillian5719]

That world. Not the world. She had to leave to grow up

[@dijonjohn1011]

@@jillian5719 Or she killed herself... Otherwise why have the old man? Why not make him a younger person? Why have the bus randomly show up and take him away? He was obviously ready to 'leave', so why didn't he until the end??

[@ianswift3521]

an example showing how a lot of young people rely on an elderly figure in their life to be the one consistent constant, while everyone else changes up on them, but because they're so young they don't consider that death will take those elderly people very soon, in the forseeable future. she just recognized that fact when he was gone.

[@stephclarke6850]

The lighting and staging where Enid waits for the bus looks like an Edward Hopper painting.

[@TheLinuxYes]

interesting to see the TV lighted windows above her with the tired town's sheeple plugged into a fake world on their TV's. Enid, carrying her suitcase, was more interested in the real world. there was nothing suicidal about her. very much Alive she was.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Indubitably !!

[@imbonniefox]

i love ghost world! it’s one of the only dvd’s i kept forever!!

[@paulcooper-n2v]

It is awesome.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Indeed ! It's one of my all time favorite films !

[@cinewillp6391]

Walking by the Hollywood and Melrose intersection where the shot this, I never thought about how a fair amount of actors kill themselves after disillusion/rejection... all in the same basic area..

[@seeyouagain911]

I didn't know. It's sad.

[@TheLinuxYes]

Enid didn't kill herself. she was carrying a suitcase. she was moving on and getting out of that tired town. that had been one of her fantasies and now she was living it.

[@dijonjohn1011]

@@TheLinuxYes You're so eager to believe that, so have it. No one is stopping you. But you're grasping at straws if you think a small suit case is hard evidence of this not being a suicide...

[@ci3bf]

This is a movie that rewards multiple viewings. Enid's inability to part with objects at the yard-sale is reminiscent of Seymour and his housemate. Much as Rebecca's "Call me" during this scene is a callback to the scenes with Melora. It proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Enid and Rebecca are no longer close. This is further exemplified by Rebecca's "mature" dress sense. She has changed, whereas Enid has remained the same. Enid takes the bus to a place unknown. While we don't know where this journey of self-discovery will lead to, I feel that her time with Seymour will ultimately make her cautious of ending up in a similar position. I don't think she is as hopeless a case as some people here make her out to be.

[@TheLinuxYes]

She's not hopeless and is moving on. suitcase and all. the Town and most in it are hopeless.

[@binary]

@@TheLinuxYes the town is fine, she's a miserable nutcase

[@rodrigorodriguez509]

Yeah because we see right from the beginning she's quite smart. Helpful analysis thank you

[@ГалинаКрымкая]

Ребекка человек системы, как оказалось. Она быстро подстроилась под её требования. Инед максималист, ей трудно подстроиться под стстему-матрицу. Да, они разные.

[@markvincentordiz]

Rebeccas dress is for her work

[@epicmeade]

In the movie ‘the Last Black Man In San Francisco’ the main character, Jimmie, boards a city bus and encounters Thora Birch with colored hair and a leather jacket, and they have a brief conversation. The filmmakers said that they imagined that It was the bus Enid got on at the end of Ghost World and that she had ended up in SF. Which is also interesting, since the girls from Ghost World were based on two women from SF who worked in a comic book store on Haight Street.

[@ProBreakers]

I went through a place in my life around when this movie came out. I was in college and felt directionless, dropped out and got an office job. Remember being alone, didn’t really have any friends and would stay at work til midnight and sometimes wonder around downtown, feeling alone and invisible. Randomly went by myself to an indie theater that was showing this when it came out. Connected with me at the time, the alienation and the feeling I was snuck in place while those I used to know as friends changed and moved on. I did manage to figure it out and get it together, kinda like Enid there at the end, by packaging up and moving to a new place to start fresh.

[@lukeduan6291]

suicide or not, most people in a sense are already dead inside,, "Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75." - benjamin franklin

[@anyviolet]

Speak for yourself, buddy. "Most people?" That's a leap and as you yourself quote, even Ben Franklin didn't go that far. Projection anyone?

[@zeldasmith6154]

Benjamin Franklin never said that. Why do people think others are that stupid.

[@lukeduan6291]

Imagine getting serious on the internet lol couldn’t be me 😱😱 (I desperately need attention thanks for the reply blud🤭🤭)

[@TheIkaraCult]

It makes sense that Seymour would start from the beginning of the book, and stop once he came to the part where he thought he was being made fun of. He's a music obsessive, particularly about old-time music, so he would feel a duty to start from the beginning of any kind of journal he found.

[@TheLinuxYes]

plus the shock and pain he encountered caused him not to be interested in looking past those pages. he felt a bond with Enid and for her to depict him that way shut him down.

[@pepefrogic3034]

Such a cool collectionair dude. Too bad the bitch emo girl destroyed his relationship with the perky blonde and TWICE

[@chuckschillingvideos]

I like the ambiguity and uncertainty of the bus stop ending for both the old man and Enid. I choose NOT to solve the puzzle and leave it open ended. I believe it was left purposefully ambiguous - we make them more or less significant in our viewing of the film depending upon how we feel and interpret other scenes and character interactions. Also, I wanted to call out the clip where Enid leaves the hospital and sits down with Rebecca. Prior to this interaction, the characters had obviously fallen out and nothing in the film indicated that had changed prior to this scene. Yet Rebecca waits for her to emerge - clearly they have reconciled, and, what's more, Rebecca seems to have abandoned her hatred for Seymour (no cutting remarks made about him, no anger at Enid for going to see him and making her wait, etc. etc.). Is this the ending of their relationship or a rebirth? We are left to decide for ourselves. Very clever.

[@dyldobaggins9449]

They changed so much from the graphic novel but this movie stands on it's own

[@jubalcalif9100]

Quite true.

[@benm3382]

I've watched this movie so many times since I was 12 (almost 20 years ago, Jesus...) and every time as I get older I see it a bit differently. Watching the scene now I have a completely different interpretation than before. Enid was someone who thought the world was static but was alarmed to find that people have to change in order to grow. The old man at the bus stop was one of the quirky things she loved which she thought would always be the same. Then to her shock she realized that even he isn't permanent and eventually moves on, in his case probably in death. The bus that never comes did eventually come. She realized that her bus will come too and she has to get on it to move on. When I was an Enid I felt like an outsider so I didn't think my bus would come and change things, but eventually I found myself on a bus line I didn't know existed. I still don't know where it's going but I'm very far from where I started.

[@ted__ryan]

Its a coming of age movie. She grew up and so she wants to explore the world. Stop being pessimistic people. 😂

[@edwardgaines6561]

Enid: A (wo)man without a country. It's sad, nothing will satisfy her.

[@edwardgaines6561]

@@jubalcalif9100 No, thank you! This movie is for the Millennials of the 90s, that couldn't negotiate life. I really understand it *NOW.*

[@ShimaS-0079]

@@edwardgaines6561 omg i can see it.

[@edwardgaines6561]

@@ShimaS-0079 This Coronavirus and subsequent job layoffs certainly didn't help either.

[@TheLinuxYes]

Wrong. living in a tired, dead end town does not satisfy her. she's 18 and getting out while she can. she's making the right decision.

[@VideoGuy232]

@@TheLinuxYesYou really don’t need to comment the same shallow thought under EVERY comment. I promise you, your rationale is not impressive, just obnoxious. It’s open ended and you can let people interpret it how they please. If you want to rant about your opinion, post a comment under the video, not a response to every comment in the section

[@broken12smiles]

I always thought that perhaps Enid was Becky's imaginary friend and her leaving was the sign that she had finally grown out of her.

[@edwardgaines6561]

Sorta like Calvin & Hobbes. That's sad, but life is not imaginary. It has to be lived.

[@nihilisticbarbie]

I don't think so. I think enid could be a real girl

[@gigi4266]

@@nihilisticbarbie she WAS real. we saw her living her life w/o rebecca like in art class.

[@SpettroFamily]

this is also a good review - that's why this movie is so good - so simple but still so deep and open to so many interpretations - also - that bus, someone take it at young age, someone else wait all his life

[@dijonjohn1011]

Then why have all the scenes with just Enid and her family/Seymour? And she goes to her imaginary friend's house... and searches for a 2 bedroom apartment with her imaginary friend?? It's a cool idea, but makes no sense haha.

[@calowenby1654]

I forgot how high-pitched Scarlett Johansson’s voice was here!

[@melissab3217]

Suicide or no? I have always thought yes. Picking up on small details is important to this interpretation. Notice that the bench says "Life Not In Service." Also the bus is outdated, not a normal bus, and she is the only person on it. Enid is in all red representing mania/impulsivity. Enid is at a point where she has disappointed everyone in her life and feels completely alone. She stopped by to make final amends with her friend and Seymour. She has no money to start a new life. Then she gets on this bus into the dark night, going over a bridge, almost symbolic of crossing the River Styx. Watching this after watching Zwigoff's movie Crumb tells me he is interested in suicidality. Of course it's open for interpretation. But I think suicide is most likely considering all this. Great film, one of my favorites.

[@carolyngair7051]

Not sure it IS suicide. In the original script Enid had a line confessing a childhood dream of just disappearing one day without telling anyone. I think she feels like a ghost in her own life. She can’t seem to grow-up or change and those around her are moving on, moving up, or moving into other relationships. Becky is with Josh. Her dad is with Maxine. There’s no one for her anymore. So she decides to disappear on that magical bus that will take her away. Just like Norman did. Alternate reality? Who knows. But it doesn’t seem like suicide.

[@maxmowers1434]

In 2001 when the movie came out the gmc new look bus which is the model seen in the movie was still widely in service as a city transit bus all across North America.

[@deepskywalker66]

It is human nature to rather choose a death than perpetual suffering, BUT - Meaning of Life, among other things, is to KNOW what death is, and not to "try" it, but to find a solution, if there is some - and almost always, there is, even that is not immediately noticeable ...

[@dijonjohn1011]

@@carolyngair7051 You can interpret it differently if you want, but don't deny it seeming like suicide... If they wanted this to be a metaphor for something other than death, the old man in the suit would make no sense... The movie's script does not matter, but the movie writers did not write the story. Sure your interpretations could be correct, but acting like this is not possibly a suicide, says a lot about how uncomfortable people are with accepting the realities of teenage/young adult suicide...

[@TheLinuxYes]

Nope suicide carrying a suitcase?? makes no sense. Norman, the old man, did not have a suitcase so he may have died. if he did, then that may have given Enid the incentive to get out of that tired town and move on.

[@missjo252]

This film is about impermanence, flux, change and the illusory nature of reality, set against a backdrop of a consumer driven, futile society. Enid is grappling with this realisation and trying to find meaning in this 'ghost world', desperately trying to hold on to the sacred but is surrounded by the profane.

[@TheLinuxYes]

she's moving on and getting out of that tired town. those who commit suicide aren't interested in suitcases.

[@willswalkingwest7267]

"Don't thank me, you're doing all the work..."

[@chuckschillingvideos]

Yeah, Seymour is clearly unable to free himself from his own emotional bondage.

[@dynamopirate470]

In the comic Enid comes back years later and she's driving a hearse.

[@anaiskowalski4182]

Wow, I didn't know there was a comic book.

[@CrodolookslikeFrody]

@@anaiskowalski4182 the whole movie is based on a graphic novel. It was actually the first comic based movie to receive an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay

[@anaiskowalski4182]

@@CrodolookslikeFrody OK, great. Thanks for the info!

[@TheLinuxYes]

maybe she realizes that, being a dead end american town full of dead end people, she will do well business wise, driving a hearse.

[@adrianarias6418]

The bus appears just for people who want to leave that town forever. If sha had committed suicide, why would she carry luggage?.

[@MrZebub]

Like Brooks did?

[@pistachiosandpopcorn7146]

She took her baggage with her into another world.

[@TheLinuxYes]

Thank you. suicidal people aren't interested in luggage.

[@TheLinuxYes]

@@pistachiosandpopcorn7146 yea, that's it!! lolzz the only question left is was it heaven or hell??

[@TheLinuxYes]

@@MrZebub Brooks didn't initially plan to commit suicide. he ended up at suicides cliff only after relocating and realizing he can't make it on the outside world. he had become institutionalized from being locked up so long. Enid was far from institutionalized. she was the opposite, actually. she loved change

[@jediwizard5533]

I thought the idea was Enid is struggling to let go of the past She insists on moving in with Rebecca She insists on moving in with Seymour Because she is trying to hold onto things that remind her of the past. She wants to move in with rebecca because she’s her best friend She wants to move in with seymour because he reminds her of herself. I thought the ending was her embracing rhe idea that to adapt to a new world she must leave everything else behind This is why she does not move in with either of them

[@SpettroFamily]

exactly - and so she take a ride on the bus into the unknown, out of the comfort zone, wich can be quite scary - ghost world can be that dimension were we keep on staying, sometimes for years : no more kids, or teenagers but yet no adults - such good movie

[@pepefrogic3034]

She moved on to wreak more havoc on people lives and end up as a maxine character but cukinary challenged

[@PrivateAckbar]

Seymour's mother looks like Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

[@seeyouagain911]

People say nasty things about New York City but I think Hollywood is worse. It looks like a very sad and lonely place.

[@ililililil8385]

Nah there are some parts of LA that are chill.

[@IamSkullrules]

Hollywood is like New Jersey only with earthquakes

[@TheLinuxYes]

Gotham City and Hollywood are both illusions. Life is elsewhere

[@chuckschillingvideos]

It's just a different kind of shitty place from NYC. But both are still very shitty places.

[@bevinbobele9958]

People think that the old man died and Enid killed herself because above the "Not in Service you can make out the faded word "Life" So it reads "Life Not In Service." It's how I interpreted it and still do, intentional or not.

[@ashviolet4926]

if you look close, you can see the old man blocks out the middle and it says "notice life" meaning to live in the moment as our authentic self, as enid did yet she was the minority/odd ball amongst all the artificial people

[@TheLinuxYes]

Life , in that tired, dead end town, is Not In Service. Enid had her luggage and was determined to get out of that town. Norman, on the other hand, may have died. no luggage. if he had died, that may have given Enid even more incentive to get out of there. Enid was very much alive. most in that town were already "dead"

[@Leo-wz4nh]

Why is she dressed in red, if it is suicide? Red has a range of symbolic meanings, including life, health, vigor, war, courage, anger, love and religious fervor. The common thread is that all these require passion.

[@TheLinuxYes]

luggage means no suicide.

[@VideoGuy232]

Red for women generally represents adulthood and coming of age. White represents purity, red (the sign of womanhood) can imply a corruption of said purity. Like the Scarlet letter for example. Red can also mean courage. Or violence. The color red symbolizes a great many things. I’d say the color choice is open ended in the movie. Does she now understand what it means to be an adult and, corrupted, chooses to leave the world. Or does her newfound understanding of adulthood mean that she has become empowered to make a change? Either interpretation has validity

[@cloneNK1124]

On the bench are the words "Life" and "Not In Service"

[@adamellwanger7005]

This is about inertia vs momentum: having direction in life. Becky had direction and aspirations. Enid didnt. She consoled herself with the old man, who seemed the most inert, directionless person she knew. Then the bus came...and she was shocked to learn that even the person who seemed to be doing "nothing" was actually planning for a future -- a something. Enid doesn't know what "something" the man was pursuing...but she also realized SHE wanted to pursue something. Otherwise one is left behind (as she was by Becky and the old man). Enid's problem was she couldn't identify a "something" worth pursuing. When she decided to wait for the bus, she had decided that even an unknown "something" was better than "nothing;" if only because it held out a small prospect for hope and a future. Seymour, going back to his old life (and mom), is the one who chooses inertia. Enid thought that the world was the ghost, but realized that she herself was. She could join Seymour and haunt the same old places forever (as he will surely do)...but she made a different choice.

[@joesmoe8983]

She just moved on that's all, she is finding herself.

[@kittea0203]

i always interpreted the closing scene of the man getting the bus and then enid following the next day to be her as seeing a way out of her suffering, but not by suicide. moving away isnt giving up on life itself, its giving up on the life she has currently. if she cant grow with the people around her, shes stuck elsewhere, she's in the world around her and yet she's not in it whatsoever - a ghost. to enable growth, it must start elsewhere, somewhere she is allowed to exist, where she is able to live in a world and not in front of or behind others - her own world, alone. this man at the bus stop triggered her to come to terms with her loneliness, and realise her alternate option to what she had already tried (her attempt to fit into the world around her). to summarise, she leaves her life to start a new one, and becomes dead to that world, by choice, rather than staying a ghost. she killed her ghost rather than herself i think and simply lived in her world now, population: 1, and so is she really alone if theres nobody in her world to isolate her? this is all just my interpretation so of course disagree i mean its probably stupid as fuck anyway

[@dijonjohn1011]

Then why have it be a lonely old man, who is likely near death and waiting to join his wife? And why have it be a bus stop that is no longer in service? She was a depressed and alienated kid, who had ruined her future prospects... I am sorry, but you people seem so eager to ignore what is right in front of you. Interpret it however you want, but it doesn't change what we all really know the meaning is.

[@kittea0203]

​@@dijonjohn1011 the author of the novel literally confirmed that it was not his intention for it to signify suicide?? the out of service bus stop has a greater meaning than her killing herself lol. an out of service stop generally means that the busses will pass the stop or take a different route as a whole. either way, the stop being out of order and the man always waiting there signifies enids feelings of being a ghost in the world around her that simply functions. the bus being out of service isn't a metaphor for suicide, it's an announcement of where enid is in her life. when the man is waiting with no bus to come, enid is still a ghost, and still not ready to deal with that, but when the bus finally arrives for the man, it is confirmation that enid has reached a conclusion of how to not stay a ghost and actually live. the out of service stop becoming in service literally means that the bus stop is now ready for the bus that arrives is ready for it's journey and is prepared to reach the destination, and is to be applied to enid. also since the bus was once in service, you can assume that enid also probably was too, and it all changed for her when she saw everyone "grow up" without her. i just had to retype my comment because i accidentally backspaced it and am running on no sleep right now but i hope this makes sense. i just never got the impression of a particularly dark or light ending, it was just neutral but also left to be interpreted.

[@dijonjohn1011]

@@kittea0203 Then why make the man so old? Is it not easy to see how you could interpret the old man as waiting around to die?? And what was the reason for the bus randomly deciding to pick up the old man? Nothing indicates that he was not ready/eager to move on. Interpret it however you like, but Enid was the poster child for young adult suicide. It is very easy to see why so many people believe that it was a suicide. There are no mental gymnastics needed for that interpretation and it fits with the tone of the original story very well. It is okay to not have everything have a happy ending. Some stories end tragically, especially with a protagonist as flawed as Enid.

[@michacahan]

Clowes did a sequel book if you want to know what happens to Enid.

[@poppymoon777]

Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music - Nietzsche She finally saw and took the phantom bus she mocked didn’t exist and would never arrive

[@jandabinal6388]

They don't make movies like this anymore.

[@plaidchuck]

Because it was released about two months before 9/11 and I assume made end of 2000. It was made by a Gen Xer but this is THE snapshot of many Gen Y / Millenial youth before everything changed with 9/11.

[@danielg1910]

Thinking too much about this movie is sending me down a spiral of sadness. I had better watch some else, quick! Btw I gave this a 10 on IMDB. I rated 193 movies, but only 8 titles earned this from me.

[@Boudosaved]

Well, either this is a tribute to the ending in 400 Blows or it is possibly a suicide. The bus bench says "No Service" and yet it comes at the end to pick up the old man who probably died. So when Enid gets on, it can only mean suicide. Otherwise, it's just nonsense.

[@dijonjohn1011]

The bench says "Life" right above "Not in service"... It is pretty obvious that Enid committed suicide. People are just in denial about it, because they would rather this story have a happening ending.

[@TheLinuxYes]

wrong she's carrying luggage.

[@TheLinuxYes]

@@dijonjohn1011 wrong she carrying luggage. the old man Norman was not so he may have died. if he did die, that may have incentivized Enid to get out of a tired dead end town.

[@dijonjohn1011]

@@TheLinuxYes Enid had a lot of baggage, pretty obvious metaphor.

[@TheLinuxYes]

@@dijonjohn1011 i wouldnt consider one suitcase alot of baggage for an 18 year old. Baggage accumulates over a lifetime. 18 years is not much of a lifetime. The baggage is in the dead end american town shes leaving

[@brandonlawrence7230]

Myth busted: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_World_(comics) In a 2002 interview,[5] Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff were asked if the ending of the film adaptation was a metaphor for suicide. Daniel replied "Yeah, it could be. It's hard to figure out why people have that response. The first time I heard that I said, 'What? You're out of your mind. What are you talking about?' But I've heard that hundreds of times."

[@brandonlawrence7230]

Oh, I didn't specify what I was talking about. The creator of the comic book talks about how in his mind she doesn't commit suicide at all. The director also has vocalized confusion, saying that wasn't his intent.

[@onelifedental5607]

It's funny because people in the movie theater were clapping at the ending and surely they didn't view it as suicide either...younger audiences may interpret the metaphor. The theater I saw this at had an older crowd.

[@JoshuaVideoStudios]

While it is an interesting theory, I think Enid simply just wanted to move on and start a new life as she felt like a ghost to society, kind of like the old man did. Hence the movie’s title Ghost World

[@dijonjohn1011]

I watched this as a teen, and even then I thought it was obviously a suicide. As a adult, I still think it is obviously a suicide. Enid was not a happy person, and was really struggling to adapt to the world... People in these scenarios commit suicide every day.

[@TheLinuxYes]

She did not commit suicide. she's a smart 18 year old Artist who is smart enough to know to get out of a dead end town. she takes her luggage with her.

[@grindhousefan80]

Is this an alternative ending? I don't remember some of these scenes

[@ctmanlosa6442]

Wait so does that mean the old man died

[@gigi4266]

yes.

[@NormAppleton]

Enid gets on the same bus

[@TheLinuxYes]

he might have because he had no luggage. Enid had her luggage. if he did die, that may have incentivized her to get out of that town and move on while she's still young.

[@dijonjohn1011]

People really are willing to ignore what is right in front of them, because they would rather have a happy ending... This sort of attitude is what creates a world where someone surrounded by others, still ends up killing themselves.

[@TheLinuxYes]

people committing suicide don't carry luggage.

[@dijonjohn1011]

@@TheLinuxYes Emotional baggage is a metaphor that you fail to grasp... I'll stick with the conclusion that most fans have arrived at. You can feel free to work backwards to arrive at the conclusion you want.

[@TheLinuxYes]

@@dijonjohn1011 Enid: i chopped myself up and fed the parts with fava beans to norman. Hes such a gentleman!

[@dijonjohn1011]

@@TheLinuxYes Huh???

[@TheLinuxYes]

@@dijonjohn1011 well, you are convinced she killed herself. So i modernized it and slopped it up so she could kill herself properly. Just like modern day bollywood likes it.

[@jillian5719]

She had to leave to grow up

[@dijonjohn1011]

Then why have the old man? Why have the bus line be out of service, and the bus be so old? I am sorry, but if they wanted the ending to be about her needing to leave to grow up, the other details would make no sense... I am honestly confused how so many people miss this. This is very similar to the ferry across the river Styx, hence the bus crossing a bridge.

[@TheLinuxYes]

she had to leave a tired, dead end, american town.

[@dijonjohn1011]

@@TheLinuxYes Or she killed herself, like so many other teens like her end up doing.

[@myimpressions2599]

So the bus station is “not in service” which means the old man took his life by throwing himself in front of the bus instead of actually taking it. And she does the same thing. Did I get it right?

[@bishoujoagogo6243]

No, she just goes off to start a new life.

[@TheLinuxYes]

only if you're on the bong.

[@MMM18092]

The original hipsters, should have moved to Portland. Or maybe they did.

[@alejandrocurado5134]

The most beautiful scene in cinema about killing oneself

[@TheLinuxYes]

except she didn't kill herself. nice try, though. luggage proves she didn't kill herself.

[@hannahlang6316]

@@TheLinuxYes I mean, who takes one suitcase when they’re starting their life over? Enid could not even sell her items at her sale that SHE set up and made the prices for. You think someone so attached to all of their items is only going to have one little suitcase?

[@TheLinuxYes]

@@hannahlang6316 who? an 18 year old taking only the essentials and intending to come back to get the rest of her things once she gets settled. you sound young. Norman did not have a suitcase so he may have died. if he did die, then that would have given Enid even more incentive to leave that tired town. how many old men leave town with nothing?? Murcans have this anal fixation on suicide. remember this story was set in the early 90's. they didn't back then. the country was a much better and more optimistic place back then......yea, i've been around a while. not quite as old as Norman though.

[@hannahlang6316]

@@TheLinuxYes see I saw it more as a metaphor- Norman had nothing with him but himself and the suit he was wearing. Enid had a small suitcase. Perhaps it wasn’t her essentials, because we know she’s attached to her belongings and I feel would’ve taken them all with her. What could her suitcase symbolize?? Unfinished business. All her hopes and dreams. Norman was old and done with life, so he didn’t have unfinished business. Therefore he didn’t need a suitcase. And eh, I guess I’m young- I’m in my early 20s. But maybe the ending is subjective. Maybe Enid’s fate is exactly what you think it is, and whatever you think happens is the correct answer. I read somewhere that she’s on the bus alone and goes over a bridge which could represent the river styx. It’s an interesting theory.

[@TheLinuxYes]

@@hannahlang6316 both the writer and director stated they were surprised when people started bringing up the suicide theory.

[@seeyouagain911]

Scarlett Johansson is so beautiful. No lesbo! Lol!

[@squiddlewoddle4158]

Ok lesbian