Personal Shopper ENDING EXPLAINED

[@bestboy138]

I kept waiting for something to happen and then it ended.

[@alienator345]

My thoughts exactly. It ended and I was like, "Wait, what?"

[@AlbionRising]

There's your pretentious director for ya 😂😂😂

[@chwoonie]

Oh my God the ending was so annoying

[@roriestannard5820]

She doesn’t “try on the clothes for kyra because they have similar figures”. She isn’t allowed to try on the clothes it’s forbidden remember? There’s like 5 different scenes making that clear... kind of annoying had to comment

[@TheAtZShow]

She does. That’s the description of a personal shopper and what Kristen herself mentions in the interviews I plugged.

[@kassjazzy]

The AtZ Show did you actually watch the film or just the interviews with the actors and director. She isn't hired to try on the clothes, its not part of her job description. Its mentioned several times throughout the film that she is forbidden to try on the clothes and she only does so behind kyras back.

[@mollymorgan4396]

@@TheAtZShow oh shut up

[@user-tz1fx2fe9g]

@@TheAtZShow did you even watch this dumpster fire of a movie? It is repeatedly said that she is not allowed to try on the dang clothes. The first scene to indicate that was her telling the dude she would try on the clothes if he hadn't tattled on her the last time. He promises not to so she tries on the shoes. Like literally it is said throughout the entire film that it's unprofessional and forbidden and that her boss would freak out. The texted taunts her into doing it as well and asks if it makes her afraid wearing the forbidden clothes. Even the police scene they ask why she left out information like wearing her clothes and sleeping over there. She said it was out of embarrassment. These aren't even the only times. The entire time she's with the clothes there are constant reminders either from her or other characters that she's not supposed to try on clothes. She is literally JUST her shopper. She goes to look at clothes and purchases them on her behalf. I swear you didn't watch the movie and just half assed this by watching people talk about the film.

[@lucakat9262]

@@user-tz1fx2fe9g doesn't she masterbate in one scene because she finds the clothes so attractive? I heard that somewhere? Also, the last scene could be seen as she's dying herself and that is why the white light shows up? I don't really know? I'm just commenting and asking if anyone else feels the same?

[@The_Good_Kid]

She does not imagine the ghosts.. Close to the end, a glass breaks and the partner of her late brother hears it and runs down the stairs to ask what happened !!! At the end, her brother has a glass floating and expresses that he is not at peace because she cannot let go of her guilt and grief. She then realises that she has to let go to free him from the "spirit world".

[@blackngoldcuttlefish3390]

Yeah I have no idea what happened in this movie. The director seems to say it was all in her head, so, there's that. The scene with the hotel/Ingo was so weird and us not seeing what happened when the person came in was so weird. I was also one who thought she died or got killed in the hotel room...until she started interacting with people again. What I felt is that there was some irony...the one time, perhaps the one REAL time that the brother ACTUALLY was giving her the sign (dropping the glass, the time when the audience sees him)...she totally missed it. That's how I interpreted it. I felt like the new boyfriend being all mysterious was somewhat setting the scene for the "real" sign coming, maybe Lewis was talking through him somehow, and then he dropped the glass...but it totally went over her head. So, it's like, the whole movie she was misreading signs and searching for them and/or apparently creating them in her mind when they weren't really there (according to what the director said)...but the one real time it happened, she missed it. Who knows though!

[@chainsawkitten3766]

I too would like to believe it was NOT all in her head. Genuinely creepy at times, but confusing too. The explanation that none of it was real ruined it for me.

[@marsha696]

I thought perhaps the ghost leaving the hotel was the spirit of Krya the murdered model, and the hotel room was where she and Ingo hooked up. Ingo was trying to pin the murder on Maureen. Maureen got wise when she saw the jewelry and told the police. Remember the texter was really concerned about her telling the cops about the texts. Plus her friend in the cafe asks if she's going to testify. Remember the new boyfriend in backyard said Nick believed ALL spirits of the newly dead hangout on the Earth plane for a bit. Hence Krya the model at hotel plus following her murderer. I still don't get the ending..I don't understand where is her boyfriend?...is he dead? Says don't worry the road is safe, just not busy. So it's all in her head according to director...ugh! That sucks

[@marsha696]

Whoa wait she is dead..so is her boyfriend. he says in the note remember you wanted to come here. Then the glass breaks then white light... Oh hell I don't know LOL

[@amirahkukan782]

That's the ending I want to go with. Regardless if the director was going for something else. This , all in her head theme...it just didn't work for me. And if you have to explain it to everybody you weren't successful in the execution of it. It's much more interesting the way it appears. That's how I like to look at it anyway

[@MS-di1rw]

Personal Shopper - The title is more than just Maureen's job, it's her motif - she is shopping for meaning in her life, shopping for an identity. She was once a twin but her brother dies and now is no longer. She plays out a fantasy that a ghost is stalking her, to give her something of her past-self to hold onto. She even pretends to be someone else when she tries on her bosses clothes. Her delusions intensity when her boss is murdered - believing it could be the ghost when it's clear it was the ex boyfriend. Her job was the last piece of her old self. With her boss dead, she now has nothing of her past-self left and is free to build a new future, a new identity, for herself. She can only do this if she lets go of the ghosts, her brother, the last thing of the past she is holding onto. That's what she finally does in the end when she says 'or is it all just me.'

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Wow, excellent analysis, made me think about it in a new way

[@Alibumstead]

That sounds good and all, but then why show the audience his ghost, and a glass floating/breaking not once, but twice? And not just the audience sees it so does her sister in-law…which moots the theory. Major holes all over this film. And the editing is awful.

[@sonjaneuschwanger6419]

@@Alibumstead and all throughout I just kept asking myself why am I still watching this dumb movie??

[@Alibumstead]

@@sonjaneuschwanger6419 Haha, same!

[@Ell-Ess]

This movie changed my view completely of Kristen Stewart and now I'm a fan

[@serenityq26]

should have been a fan band wagon jumper lol. been with my girl since zathara

[@Ell-Ess]

i mean she doesn't have that many fans compared t other actresses, I watched zathura after Personal Shopper and it gives me a Twilight vibe, she was young though so not taking anything away from her

[@indexandthumb]

YallahHabib1 man, if you haven't seen 'Fierce People' (with Chris Evans, Donald Sutherland, Diane Lane & Anton Yelchin) go do it. Also good movies of hers are 'The Safety Of Objects' and 'Speak'

[@Ell-Ess]

noted

[@whitenoise3447]

she was incredible on Speak, Runaways, The Messengers....even on twilight she was really good. The character she played on twilight was a terrible character in the book. she did an excellent job bringing the lifeless Bella from the book to life.

[@chainsawkitten3766]

I don’t know how I feel about this movie. There were some parts of it that were truly creepy....but the explanation that it was all in her mind, well, that is kind of disappointing. And boring.

[@ifstatementifstatement2704]

I think her mumbling makes her even cooler. She's a great actress.

[@insaners2420]

wierdo

[@insaners2420]

@Bishwhatwasthat ofcourse bitch

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

one of the very few times I wouldve preferred the director not actually answer the question

[@brakefast6996]

Especially with that answer - that’s like the worst possible explanation of this movie. I hope it’s just a red herring.

[@carolynfoster1541]

Totally agree! Watched this movie about 4 times: 1) What.....was....that?... 2) So the house really is haunted and the boyfriend's a psycho....but the brother? 3) Did she die and left the hotel, met the sister in-law and....notice she has her hand on the cup, but it's not there! 4) Got it. Super natural. Subtle. Nice pacing. Good movie. What a stupid man to screw up his own movie by throwing in "twists". Even K.S. is trying to get him to STFU. How about, he made one movie and then, on hours of consideration, decided to give it a different meaning?

[@CamillaZahn]

I still prefer my own version too.

[@sly9269]

@@carolynfoster1541 Yeessssss. I noticed that too. In one shot her hand was on the glass and in the other the glass was just on the table. I brushed it off as being a mistake that they made, but now I think it could have been intentional (or maybe I'm reading too much into it lol)

[@carolynfoster1541]

@@sly9269 It's weird that I got so focused on this movie! It shows that it really did have the effect of being a good mystery/ghost story. Watched. Rewound. Filled in blanks. The clues are all there, that she was murdered in the hotel room by her employer's psycho boyfriend. She is surrounded by people who "believe" and they talk to ghosts. She does communicate with spirits. All of her conversations post murder are with people who want to convey a message. One entity she seeks, her twin, sees her, but she does not see him. Yet. She needs to finish her journey. The final trip she takes, that one has the symbolic quality of transformation. Travel to a new plane of existence (upward motion). She has left her home. She is in a foreign land. Her man will meet her......but he is not there because he is not dead. I would watch this again for fun, but I have the interpretation that satisfies me. IF it's not what the director meant, oh well. I like mine better.

[@portantwas]

This made me see this movie in a whole new light. I'd assumed she was murdered in the hotel by the guy who'd murdered her model employer and she'd left as a ghost. Everything that happened after that was her in the afterlife that looked just like real life and the end scene "is it just me?" was her realising she's trapped herself in some wort of weird purgatory. I based all that on the hotel doors repeatedly opening to nothing (her ghost leaving) not that it was suppose to be her feeling invisible to the world. That whole hotel scene with the stolen jewelry was really confusing. I'll have to watch it again. Made me see Kristen Stewart in a new light. She's good a depressed nerdy characters.

[@kosh2001]

I too thought she died in the hotel.....she hears the door opening then we see the doors in the hotel opening and closing by themselves then Kyra BF/Ex leaving the room. Idk, lol.

[@TonyinQuakeland]

Maybe. The problem is you have to ignore a few things. For example, the point of the scene when glass drops is that she fails to recognize it as paranormal or as the sign from her brother she's been asking for. Also, the conversation with the new boyfriend is deeply strange - he moves right into personal and philosophical questioning about spiritual beliefs, after which he fairly abruptly leaves. It's not a reach to think he's a medium and that she is dead. (The problem with that is that she seemingly interacts with the driver... but does she really?) I'm not sure I buy what I just said - nor am I sure if the ambiguity is a strength of the film or a peculiar weakness. (For example, the ambiguity of Henry James's Turn of the Screw, which has a similar is it real or is it in her head theme, is great because either explanation is full and rewarding. Here it seems so far that any particular explanation requires ignoring certain elements. I probably need to see it again to make up my mind. But one thing - and this will seem very odd to say - but the director's opinion doesn't actually settle the matter. Artists often create something with an intention in mind but once its complete, the meaning has a life of its own. You could just as easily argue that the director doesn't want to believe in an afterlife but subverts his own intentions by presenting a convincing version on one. (Again, not saying this is necessarily what I think - just arguing to show that it is possible.) Bottom line: Stewart was very good and the film is interesting. Worth talking about

[@AlbionRising]

The director was really bad, you can mislead am audience, but you can't say it was in her head while there's a ghost behind her that she never saw. That means it's not in her head. I don't think the director has any idea what they were doing, they just went with a cluster salad leading nowhere specifically.

[@brianamaemelton]

@@AlbionRising fr that was my first thought bc she is hiding her head in that once scene but yet we all still see it

[@brianamaemelton]

@@AlbionRising one scene*

[@DavidDiSalvo]

You make several great points. As to the director's interpretation, I place very little stock in it -- which, of course, seems odd because the guy made the movie so shouldn't he know? The answer is, maybe not. Talk to anyone who writes fiction and they'll tell you the direction a work takes is almost never exactly what they set out to create, and often it's significantly different. Organically the work and its characters move in directions the creator couldn't anticipate and in a sense must simply allow to happen. In the same regard, the resulting interpretations of one's work are rarely in perfect alignment with the creator's intentions. Personally, I rather prefer it that way. In addition, directors often play games in interviews. Here on KZbin you can find an interview with Ridley Scott about Blade Runner discussing whether the final scene suggests that Deckard is a replicant. Almost playfully, with a Cheshire grin across his face, Scott says "It means he's a replicant." Yeah but.. does it? If Blade Runner 2049 is to be considered canon, it would certainly seem not. Now, perhaps at that time, when Scott was interviewed, the Blade Runner sequel concept didn't exist and these considerations for Deckard hadn't been thought through (who knows) but my sense of how Scott replied is he was having some fun with the interview, and even if he wasn't, there's ample room for differing interpretations based on what's provided in the original movie. Point being -- I don't think a director's word on the issue should be considered final. Arguably, it's just one possible interpretation among many, and my feeling is that's exactly as it should be.

[@oona791]

Just a heads up: Kristen wasn’t mumbling. She was stuttering/stammering. It’s completely understandable that someone would get a bit nervous in front of a big audience and take their time with words. It shouldn’t be mocked at all.

[@LvlPlayXD]

when you said "there are no ghost and was all in her mind" i was like "its a possible theory but I dissagree..." then you show the footage of the director of the movie back in you up... and then your breakdown.. it really blow my mind.. it answer the reason when she asked at the end "or its just me?" and the ghost knock "yes".. Cool movie but great video, man.. I am a Fan.. saludos..!

[@zerosleep657]

one more question ... so how about her friend? i mean a man that she always face time with ??? he also just her fantasy ???? because he asked her to go to the mountain but nobody there...... i bet that man die too ..

[@amirahkukan782]

@@zerosleep657 why would you think he's dead??? He just wasn't there when she arrived

[@zerosleep657]

@Amirah Kukan _ because she's kinda psycho ..

[@andreachristine5364]

If that was truly the premise behind the movie that's incredibly disappointing and they did a shit job of getting that message across. So much unnecessary moments that really don't work with that.

[@rahul131245]

Not cool. The director should have said “The ending is what YOU FU**ING BELIEVE”.

[@meyerkarl5276]

Exactly, because if these ghosts were all in her head does that mean her and her brother were never mediums?

[@toeduso]

@@meyerkarl5276 I feel the same... We're being subjected to an old film promo-interview way after the premiere; so the titular bits are out of date. Especially for those viewing after 2020. They can only be so revealing, and offering funky tidbits is part of the lure to get people to want to see something they'd spent much to create, that isn't really that alluring.

[@fsm__]

The director says SHE realizes that doesn’t exist a ghost, but doesn’t mean theres no ghost. Some people ask “but how does the glass breaks after she talk with lara’s partner?” And I think this is amazing, because is the only moment she doesn’t belive that was a ghost, and was. btw, sorry about my english.

[@kyleroberts8823]

Eh. There were too many things that happened to say it was all in her head. I feel like the directors explanation doesnt cut it. The story makes the most sense as a literal ghost story.

[@derekbos4404]

That explanation makes no sense. What about when she was asleep and the ghost appeared? The ghost of a man which she did not even see which caused the glass to smash? The cross in an unreachable place? Her friend who seemed to think contact with ghosts is completely normal?

[@junosaxon4370]

Don't bother. The director is an idiot.

[@jeffscott7266]

I really loved this movie. It's depiction of what spirits would look like when manifesting themselves on film. To me, is the best portrayal of ghosts I've ever seen in a movie (a real hair on the back of your neck raiser). I feel that the writer wants to lead the audience into thinking at the end of the movie it's Maureen's because she is really grieving the loss of a brother and she's not as objective because she's to close to Lewis. However the movie does suggest that spirits could actually really exist. The scene when Maureen is talking to Laura's new partner and he says he feels Lewis is there with them. Then we see Lewis appear behind Maureen without her knowledge of the ghosts existence says that Lewis's ghosts does exist. It also implies that Lewis was trying to contact Maureen but her ability as a medium is not very good as Maureen admits/implies this to Ingo in there conversation at Kyra's apartment. One thing for sure the movie really sparks conversations with multiple possibilities that can be inferred depending on what the viewer believes and interprets. The only one who really knows is the writer of the story. Reading all the interesting viewpoints and seeing KZbin clips has been fun. I've had to watch this movie multiple times because of it's ending. It's definitely one of my favorite movies because it's outside of the box and makes you think which is refreshing. So many movies are just the same formula of the base plot we've seen to many times. Boy or girl meet on false pretenses, then get exposed, there's some blow up as a result. then they get back together in the end because they just can't live without each other. Personal Shopper was NOT formula and I love it's originality even if the viewer is left thinking "What??? It's just me??? I need to watch this this movie again.

[@joerogansforeheadwrinkles8380]

She does NOT consider herself to be a medium like her brother, and never states that once in this film. At the end of the film, her brothers friend literally tells her that MAYBE she is like him lol.

[@JTsKnifeLife]

Okay, so what happened in the hotel room?

[@ActivateLA]

Right?

[@Saffron-sugar]

maybe SHE had a heart attack?

[@NUMISTA007]

@@Saffron-sugar no the viewers had it.

[@songbird989]

I think she got murdered by Ingo the ex-boyfriend (who also sent her the texts).

[@theywerespaceships]

What a disappointing explanation for a film that put so much work into its mystery and ambiguity. Might as well have been an "it was all a dreeeeeam" ending. Though I did like the touch about fading to black all the time. When I was watching, I was like "Another fade to black? They didn't have anything to cut on?"

[@vivekshukla6639]

This make more sense but I refuse to accept this theory , as I've already made in the mind there were two ghosts his brother and a bad one .

[@jblue2523]

I know what the director said, about a woman's journey through grief, but a true artist leaves his work up for interpretation. Personally, I think Maureen died when she brought the Cartier jewelry to the hotel. It makes no sense to keep a possible witness alive ,and then showcase an invisible person riding an elevator and leaving the hotel. Lara, herself, as well as her boyfriend, Erwin, are both mediums; their ability is part of the reason why they bonded. Throughout the film, it's pretty clear that Lara believes in the supernatural; she believed Victor Hugo's story and that there was possibly a presence haunting Lewis's house. Of course, I could be totally wrong. But this is simply my theory.

[@DesignedByTaz]

I enjoyed the film despite the slow pacing but the ending still confused me greatly.

[@lern2swim]

If you're going to mock someone's public speaking ability you should maybe try to get your terminology correct. That's stuttering, not mumbling. And I'm sure you didn't edit at all when you read through your lines for this video, which I'm sure you came up with on the spot and didn't write out ahead of time.

[@RandomRandomMan]

Even after seeing this in theaters back in March, this is ONE of MY FAVORITE MOVIES of the year so far! I am still debating what happened throughout even though we apparently get answers, but that's what I really enjoy about these great supernatural films like this and 'A Ghost Story', also one of my favorites of 2017 too! Superb insight, Art! Keep it up!

[@krystamonique47]

Hearing that explanation just makes me dislike the movie even more. What angle are you going for? Decide and pick. It’s a horror story with banshee ghosts, then it’s a murder mystery, then it’s a 6th sense type of vibe, then despite all the evidence that it’s NOT all in her head, it’s apparently all I’m her head? The movie reminds me of those group projects you do in school: each person writes the beginning, middle, and end. They rush and mash the parts together not caring about how they link. Rushed and I’m unimpressed.

[@samh8810]

This seems to be the common theory, but if it is correct then the movie makers did a crap job. We should not be seeing things that she does not if its just her imagination. The theory seems to come from the single knock to the last question she asks, but (just like the texts) the knocks contradict themselves and aren't to be trusted as they first give a single knock when she asked if it was her brother. Here's another theory, the "ghost" that drops the glass is an actual person and not her brother, seeing her sitting there, then disappearing (as we see him disappear from our point of view) and Kristen Stewart is a ghost since leaving the hotel room. The fella that she has a conversation with at the table is a medium telling her to move on, not really the new boyfriend. There are holes I. This theory I am sure, but it is fun to think about.

[@Saffron-sugar]

Yeah, didn't that new boyfriend seem odd? I couldn't tell if we were supposed to understand what he was or if he was just a bad actor. That's how lost I was.

[@Kalleesto]

I understand the theory behind what you're saying but I did get the impression that Maureen sensed the ghost. Maybe look carefully at her acting - it's quite subtle but she certainly doesn't looked relaxed or comfortable. There are also split seconds where her head turns minutely towards the 'activity'.

[@Kizunakai23]

you cant say get over her mumbling she cant help it

[@Byezbozhnik]

And there's nothing wrong about it, she's just trying to get her thoughts together in order to get the right words to express them, imo.

[@FoeApple]

@@Byezbozhnik mumbling and struggling to find the right words are two completely different things.

[@ah5650]

She doesn’t mumble. She stammers. Look em up.

[@slinkysmurfette]

If this is the case, they should have made the last knock visible... showing her making the knock. But I’m not buying the fact that there weren’t any ghosts, it’s too obvious there was. PLUS they were mediums, and the sister in-law and the people who bought the home were sure that his spirit wld be appearing at some point. So I’m not sure why they are now saying there were no ghosts at all??????? Weirdness!!!

[@florescentadolescent8534]

She mumbles better than anyone, always works for me.

[@teal7973]

Great video! I figured out she wasn't actually seeing ghosts, but would of never made those connections you pointed out.

[@Giorgi.Japiashvili]

HAVE

[@Byezbozhnik]

I don't think he got your "have" rectification. It's one of the most astonishingly absurd linguistic and spelling mistakes people make as it doesn't possibly make any semantic sense.

[@ragnajonsdotter8333]

Writers and directors can explain their stories and films until the cows come home but they all have an unconscious mind that is getting its own whacks as the tale is crafted. In other words, the reader is NEVER obligated to believe the writer (same with audience not being obligated to believe the director). To me it really doesn't matter if there was a real ghostly manifestation. Maureen was haunted either way. The title is "Personal Shopper" and the crux of the story is Maureen trying to come to grips with who she really is. Alone. Just her.

[@anfal.2104]

The fuck, so the mysterious guy on the phone was nothing!!

[@marcjamesrobson1375]

I lost my twin brother at birth & this film is profoundly moving

[@tiffanylyons4474]

Ignore the idiot who made that comment. No soul or empathy at all. What kind of person are you?

[@cyphercoll]

@@tiffanylyons4474 he's right tho

[@KweenBee37]

I'm sorry..I loved this film but to have this all happen in her mind is bullshit and kills it for me

[@amirahkukan782]

I agree with you, but don't let it kill you for it. I'm completely ignoring the directors , quite frankly failed attempt of his idea for the whole film. If you actually have to explain the entire movie it means you've been unsuccessful in the telling. Therefore I'll take it the way it came off. Not in her head

[@youwillforgetinaweek]

KweenBee37 Your interpretation is still valid my friend. It is art after all.

[@triskut]

Also you didn't make a point about how lonely it would be wearing someone elses clothes.

[@paxwallacejazz]

Kristen Stewart will never be captured again in such an undeniably compelling magnetic light wow.

[@Dani-th6cl]

4:10 this cannot be from Maureen's perspective. We see her brother's ghost floating behind her back. She doesn't even realize he's there. I'm not even sure if she's really a psychic. I don't know what happens in this movie. I still enjoyed it.

[@TheAtZShow]

What we're seeing is her recollection of what she thinks happened.

[@Dani-th6cl]

But in order to recollect an event, you have to know it has happened. She doesn't seem to know what happened. She looks totally oblivious. Even after the glass broke, she didn't seem to suspect it was her brother's doing. Maureen has also reported all the ghost sightings to her friend (Lucas' fiance) so far but when the friend came running to the kitchen and asked her what happened, she just casually motions toward the sink as if to say the glass fell from the edge of the sink. So her recollection of the event is quite different from what played out on the screen for the viewer.

[@ahmedsadiq4234]

EXACTLY! Thankyou!

[@min0sse]

Dani This happens when a director can't get his shit together. The movie is inconsequential in many ways, her phantomly walking through the hotel, Lewis walking around smashing glasses, the last conversation... It is a good film, but incoherent...

[@min0sse]

Dani Also, the last knock, should be from his brother, who decided that maybe for his sister's sanity it is better she forgets him and just go on her life... So he dissimulates the existence of the afterlife, making her believe it's all in her mind to let her move on...

[@FLdancer00]

I'm still confused about the hotel meet up ❓❓❓

[@hardtymz2517]

No one, not even the lame director knows what that was all about.

[@jolyonlovell3554]

When the creepy boyfriend is leaving the hotel room he adjusts his tie as he walks out the door, perhaps implying that he was finishing dressing... perhaps earlier when we see the doors of the hotel opening by themselves this is indicative of her 'escape' and mental/emotional withdrawal from what went on in the room with creepy boyfriend...

[@florentmagnoac]

Thanks for that pertinent analysis...thanks for reviewing that movie.

[@britcorreia2174]

Can someone please explain this I watched the movie and I don’t get it at sll

[@---lm8nz]

Nobody knows, not even the writer.

[@joanna-vv1rk]

Im actually dissapointed the director answered this final question, the movie is made in such a way that theres some space left for interpretation, which I think makes it more interesting, its the same with poetry-I dont want to know what the author had in mind

[@brakefast6996]

If it was all in her mind, why do we see the ghost of presumably Lewis when she’s not even looking at it... doesn’t really make sense that she’s just delusional or whatever

[@AJxxxxxxxx]

I’m so glad you explained it, because I was completely lost at the end of the movie

[@robcolcort8007]

Who dropped the glass ? And there’s Lewis nearing the end when the first glass cup dropped

[@ARMediaOfficial]

Yesss I've been waiting for this one. Great breakdown as usual man. Loved this film

[@ActivateLA]

What happens in the last scene of the hotel room? I'm missing that part...someone?

[@tommyjaye]

What was the whole thing with the abstract artist? Was her art was the hotel at the end?

[@superarty1]

I think this the best explanation I have seen for this film, the last line of the film explains the film.

[@theunpossiblefile]

The actual meaning of the movie: when movies betray too much paranormal reality a cop-out ending is added. In PS she thinks it’s all in her head. “Jacob’s Ladder” & the recent “Hereditary” also had to have rigged endings. Like all the old seance movies thumping sounds from overhead like in PS matches non-imaginary reality. Alternating with a loud scrapping sound like dragging a salt shaker over a kitchen counter. Gotta add some salt right? To ground the situation.

[@sonjaneuschwanger6419]

All I have to say is I can tell some of ya'll haven't watched The Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis.

[@hardtymz2517]

Correct!

[@lexxmelancon1737]

I can get that the sight of the spirits can be in her mind but she didn't see her brother's apparition behind her, which dropped the cup. There was actual physical shattered glass on the kitchen floor. This leads into her brother's girlfriend, Lara, coming down and asking what happened after hearing the commotion/glass shattering.

[@Saffron-sugar]

I would prefer it if SHE had actually killed the model and there WAS no creepy boyfriend or creepy texts. She manifested all of that ......but the director ruined that for me lol

[@hardtymz2517]

This movie had no clue what it ever wanted to be. A complete waste.

[@sweetlullaby5156]

Thanks for this~ just saw the movie and I did feel her loneliness; appreciated the cliffhanger scenes when it fades to black because you know those days when you lose track of time and you feel like the time flies fast and you only recall few things you did in a certain day..I get it. I love how the director made it like that. It reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia"

[@andreachristine5364]

That makes no sense, she's not even down there to see the doors... idk about this.

[@chelsealoncar9480]

I had already thought that the ghosts weren't real, but i also am kind of disappointed and also disagree, yet agree because what about when Kira's boyfriend left the same hotel as the one the messages told Kristen to go to, so why did they add that in if he hadn't done anything to the twin and there was a scene just before that of a sound in the twins room as if someone came in, but that could just be her mind. There was one other thing, you said the cross scratch marks were either not there or an animal of some sort had done it, but there was one on the stairs where an animal couldn't reach and her friend had seen it too. Even if there is an explanation for my queries, i feel unsatisfied.

[@TheDeathOfLucifer]

She has a heart attack in the hotel just like her brother, she leaves the hotel as a Ghost. She speaks with Lewis' ex who is a medium, she talks to Lewis' ex's new boyfriend who isnt super intune as a medium but can know for sure Lewis is there, he tells her how spirits (just like her own) wander the earth a few days after death but need to move on. She interacts with them then goes on to another country I forget which country it is but someone already posts about how most people there believe in spirits and talk to them like normal people. Then she sees that ghost stuff happening and communicating in the way she watched in the KZbin video. This is the way she taught herself to communicate. Shes dead.

[@lesliesauceman8093]

I don't understand the point of the murder though you did a good job trying to explain it.

[@amirahkukan782]

The murder is quite simple, she got killed by the boyfriend she dumped. It was the boyfriend who was texting her. Fucking with her all the way. He's the one who got the cartier stuff in her flat. He's the one who was trying to frame her for the murder.

[@davidwise3426]

The model actually got killed toward the end.

[@Saffron-sugar]

errr......yes.

[@achillesdanieladam9486]

In the end she came in contact with her own ghost. Living dead at the same moment. Fantastic

[@toeduso]

"Living dead girl". I love it! This gives me a new view of Rob Zombie's song.

[@bonale]

Ok wait a second, so you are telling me that the scene when the doors are opening in the hotel, is her that feels invisible to the world? What? I'm not getting it though, if Kyra's boyfriend (indigo? something like it) was there too, why didn't he kill her? This was his intention right? Or are you telling me that she left just in time for him to not find her? I just saw the movie and I thought she was dead in the end, like we don't see her boyfriend ok? So I thought that maybe she was simply going around, and she was seeing stuff, even if people are talking to her maybe it doesn't mean anything... but yeah ok so if it was all in her mind, and I'm ok with that, then when she says "Or it is just me?" she doesn't mean "Am i talking to myself, my dead self." but "Am i hearing and seeing stuff because I need something to hold on to?" right? I have to say I hate movies with open endings that I don't get, I mean I like them, but I also hate them... is frustrating because I thought I had figured it out... but apparently I haven't. But I am also glad because Kristen wasn't that bad, and yes I was one of the "You did that movie so i hate you" and I'm sorry for it. She isn't that bad.

[@bonale]

ahah no it's Ingo, I think I watched too much of Supernatural lately, sorry.

[@followersguild7356]

I just watched the movie and need some serious explanation... read your comment and i kinda have the same perspectives too and i'm really confuse with the movie...your comment needs answering from someone who gets it coz your questions are intriguing and I need answers too... i need help haha... really confused AF

[@projectfashionworks9716]

I've been searching for answers on this film. Best one I've found right here. Thanks.

[@Eaudino23]

I’ll argue for days, Stewart is a great actress.

[@RichardGutierrezRG]

I felt she was seeing spirits, thats part of what she does, her and her brother had it. The question was in beyond this plain of existence. She speaks with spirits or ghosts still within this "side" (glass falling is real as two people witness the broken glass). The siblings wanted a confirmation based on ego, of WE will decide or not decide what lies or ends beyond. We, along with her, still don't know. Is it just death? Is it a line that just can't be crossed back over? Ultimately, she knows its just her now, any conversation with her brother is and has been over once he died. She like tons of others see things as signs, are they? Maybe, but we take them on faith.

[@songbirdy]

So if it's all in her head that means that very last knock that said " yes" to her question "or is it just me?" was just in her head too. And the shocked look comes from her realizing it. But what actually made her realize it? So confused.

[@dae3xt]

but how does she escape from Ingo at the hotel when the hotel door opens up. is it not Ingo coming in and instead she left the hotel before Ingo got to the hotel room?

[@crywolf9687]

how can you understand movies like this? I watch movies daily but I found it hard to figure them out, especially if they have an open ending can someone help?

[@kassjazzy]

No mention of the jewellery. Did she keep it for herself? She takes it to the hotel, so does she give it to the boyfriend? Were they in it together, sell the jewellery and split the money?

[@HeatherHolt]

Wow your explanations are very good.

[@Luiz27M]

The dissolves aren't that related to this particular plot, Assayas used them also in a similar manner in Sils Maria.

[@Numberoneiosgameplay]

Wait, so are there spoilers for A Ghost Story in this vid too? Cuz I haven't seen that yet.

[@jakedanielsen4512]

Brad Asbury no

[@PapaHola]

'Ending explained'. How could there not be spoilers, idiot?

[@majed8192]

See you are the idiot here " A Ghost Story " is the name of another movie and he was asking if the explanations and scenes from that movie shown in the video spoiled it in anyway and of course it didn't it would even make the movie more effective and enjoyable to watch.

[@PapaHola]

majed8192 Well, I'm so sorry that I didn't know of another shitty fake ghost story. This movie is terribly shit. Don't see why this would include spoilers for another film, anyway.

[@christophersheets5452]

You're like the only KZbinr I can rely on to make me super interested in a movie I've never even heard of

[@sinkground]

I wish I could see a ghost story but it's not showing in my state

[@mianvo3015]

SinkGround try 123movies, gomovies and fmovies.

[@biancacarrijo7043]

I think the film was made to be interpreted in many ways and I honestly do not agree with the explanation of the director himself lol. Anyways, KS rocked! She is an impressive actress, really. ps.: you shouldn't make fun of people stuttering, this is incredibly rude.

[@zebran4]

He hasn't made fun of anyone who is stuttering.

[@psf334]

the dumbest part was the "mystery" of who was sending the texts and killed her boss. there was literally only one character it could have been and that's who it was.

[@blackngoldcuttlefish3390]

well yeah

[@theresag.4188]

So when she was texting someone that was in her mind too!??

[@LadyAxe13]

She must have had a really telekinetic mind if she was just imagining the glasses floating and breaking at two different points. I don't buy the "all in her mind" crap.

[@Chrisnuzzo76]

I'm going with the theory that Kristen is suffering from PTSD and most of what happens is her imagination or things she did in periods of being blacked out. As far as the doors and elevators opening and no one being visible, it can't be her spirit because after that point she traveled to meet the boyfriend and people were interacting with her all the way to her room.

[@hardtymz2517]

Her weird a** b/f. Their video chats were so bizarre and cringe.

[@wy4553]

This was such a gratingly boring movie. It was painfully obvious that Ingo was the mystery texter the whole time. I was surprised to read all the crazy theories people came up with that made the movie feel so much deeper than it really was. Personal Shopper feels just as unfulfilling as The Assistant. You think the slow buildup will eventually lead to something but the final reveal is: You just wasted 2 hour of your life.

[@toeduso]

Yep. Like a lover with neat foreplay skills; but arrives way before we do and then immediately falls asleep. Snoring.🙄

[@hardtymz2517]

Correct! The worst movie ever, the only way it should/can be viewed is by being on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

[@OversizeLoad1]

I hate when movies have no explanation within them. So if the director would not have explained the movie we would all be lost trying to find meaning on our own. Who paid for the hotel? Was anyone really texting her? Was Tyra's boyfriend in the same hotel as Maureen? And who the hell touches themselves after believing their brother texted them? 🤮

[@agraciotti]

nice video. Agree with most of it But no need of the annoying music, man. Just take it off.

[@krystamonique47]

I liked the music. Keep it.

[@TheGoodfella2012]

The invisible person leaving the hotel threw me off. Guess even that could be her imagination

[@norawolohan5753]

Kristen Stewart looking into the camera at the end actually freaked me out I wasn't expecting it and she was looking into my soul caught me off guard she just looks at it after the bang and glances away it just was unsettling

[@dlny911]

Does it go to white screen because she dies?

[@novaquinn5323]

So was she the one breaking the glass?

[@gardengirl21]

If that is what the ending really means then.......fuck, that’s really stupid.

[@Jonny0W]

Good analysis

[@eviec2749]

Can i be honest, this gonna come off a bit lame , but i honestly think her brother forgot about showing her the sign. I think he was more preoccupied by his girlfriend. Maybe he harboured some resentment bc she moved on so quickly. Like the new bf said, he feels his presence there and something is stopping him being with her. And when we see Maureen visit. A much longer stay than the first time, he realizes he forgot about her and the pact. Also i think this movie could be both. A literal ghost story and a metaphor for her grief. I think some instances could've been ghost and other more a projection of her emotions. Why the hell not 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@randomfools808]

Been waiting awhile to rewatch this after seeing it early last year. Now seems about a good time. Loved it then

[@fantastischfish]

I've only just watched this, and here's what I thought: the ghost was real...how else could you explain the glass actually being on the floor, the sister hearing AND seeing the glass, and the fact that it need sweeping up. The text messages were NOT real. The hotel room was booked in her name, using the cash that we see her clearly being paid in throughout the film. She imagines the text messages, and simultaneously the boyfriend is murdering Kyra, leading Maureen to confuse the two and believe she's receiving messages from the killer. This explains why she is able to leave the hotel alive - the boyfriend never actually goes to the same room as her, it's simply a coincidence that he's in the same hotel. The end is as explained: she travels to visit her boyfriend, where the journey, distance and quiet has finally given her some perspective to realise that she cannot hold onto her brother anymore and must let go.

[@blackngoldcuttlefish3390]

Interesting. I never thought about the fact that the text messages could have been fake/in her mind. So, the murder was real (Ingo killed Kyra)...but he was never actually texting Maureen? Hmm. That could be. Because the hotel room scene was just so bizarre...zero resolution as to what actually went on in there. I, too, tend to think Lewis dropping the glass was real. And the irony is, the whole movie she's searching for his sign...and when he finally does it, she totally misses it.

[@hardtymz2517]

The dialog of the video chats with her boyfriend were weird AF. But it’s also Kristen Stewart so no emotion nor unweirdness is needed. He was a weird guy. He ghosted her at the end.

[@ohlalamuah5832]

Well there was ghosts because when she asked "or is just me"at the end she got a response.

[@epm1012]

But how many emotions does she have?

[@epm1012]

Damn Blue Shell

[@bsbrickfilms9286]

EPM 101 you should watch the Emoji Movie! It's all about having emotions, really inspirational!

[@riccsty7851]

EPM 101 one uuuhhhhmmm

[@knedy]

Both of them.

[@hardtymz2517]

One being the correct and only answer.

[@fabienlobue7882]

Personally, here is my interpretation. It was real, it was his brother. But in the end, he understand that he must let her think that everything is in her head, and now she can evolve.

[@bacht4799]

Whoa 😲 I thought she dies in the end " what was it that movie with the title.. dies in the end .. can't remember.. oh well " anyway great review and good work well done..! 😃😁😎👏👏

[@chalmersantiago1998]

My all-time favorite movie.

[@clumsysandbocks5650]

Some conflicting points: 1 Maureen doesn't acknowledge that Lewis appears behind her. She thinks the glass fell by itself. It can't be from Maureen's point-of-view. This proves that Ghosts do exist in the movie universe and indicates Maureen isn't an unreliable narrator (unless only ghosts that Maureen sees are imagined: lewis and the female ghost manifest very differently). 2 Maureen see's two crosses, and one of them is too high for her or an animal to make. 3 The solution in the video requires the viewer to accept that nothing of substance happened in the hotel room. Igno and Maureen either met up, made some agreement and left, or didn't meet up at all. Why would Igno meet up if he had nothing worth saying? He doesn't leave w/ the jewellery, so he probably doesn't want it. Possible answers to these points: 1 Ghosts are emotional manifestations and Lewis appears because his friend is uncomfortable about dating his fiancee. Alternatively, Assaya bent the ghost rules for this one encounter to have his grief-cake and eat it too. I guess you could also argue that the fact that Maureen doesn't notice this one encounter is proof that it actually happened - it isn;t connected to the unreliable narrator. 2 In answer to the crosses you could say the first was created prior to Maureen entering the house, and that the second cross doesn't exist (no one else saw it). I think it's a stretch to say Maureen or an animal left the markings. However, this concedes that Maureen is an unreliable narrator. If Maureen is an unreliable narrator, there's a chance she killed Kyra for Igno. 3 Don't really have a counter-point for this one. I think, if one accepts nothing happened in the hotel room, this also serves as evidence that Maureen is more involved with Igno than the film leads us to believe. Maybe they meet at the hotel room the first time Maureen goes there? This film was great, but I think every interpretation of the ending requires some serious mental gymnastic and deliberate ignorance of counter-evidence. I think this supports the themes of the movie (grief, self-identification and supernatural doubt), but it makes for a very frustrating ending.

[@clumsysandbocks5650]

The Killer: Igno, the female ghost or Maureen. Probably Igno. The Texter: Igno (except for the encounter on the landing). Best evidence for this is that Igno checks his phone when he leaves the elevator. What happens in the hotel: ? What does the final line mean: either (a) Maureen is dead, or (b) Maureen has overcome her grief, or (c) all of the above.

[@ah5650]

What she was doing is called STAMMERING, not mumbling. Kristen Stewart does not mumble, ever. She stammers.

[@tinasan3870]

I don't think Kristen was very good in this. I didn't believe Marlene wanted to try on her employers clothes. Kristen acted like a tomboy...like she always does. Not into fashion.....I don't believe she REALLY wanted to try on the glitzy dress or 4-in heels....so much so she would be so afraid of doing it ...because it's "forbidden".

[@kosh2001]

2:53 Lars Eidinger look is like WTF are you talking about.