SPOILER ALERT!!!
I started watching Limbo with Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio(?) and Kris Kristofferson the other night but I missed the begining. When they were waiting on the beach to see if they were going to be rescued or executed, was the ending given away in the begining- ala The Sixth Sense?
Please Please someone tell me what happened. If the movie is supposed to just end without the viewer truly knowing what happened, what do you think happened and why? This has been driving me nuts and I haven’t seen the movie listed again on cable.
Thanks,
kelliebob
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I heard John Sayles talk about the film after showing it at a preview. He said that it’s deliberately ambiguous about what happens after the final scene. He had nothing to add to what you see in the film itself.
Incidentally, that’s David Straitharn, not Kristofferson, on the beach at the end.
Mary Elizabeth tries to get under a pole 1 1/2 feet of the ground. She doesn’t make it – falls on her ass.
In the sequel, they play Twister.
I too was in a preview with John Sayles speaking afterwards. He said that, for him, the emotional climax of the film is when all three characters choose to stand on the beach and face their future together as a unit. They have become a “family” and what happens later (w/the Kris Kristofferson character) is only incidental.
I suggest that they were left in an intermediate or transitional place, or a state of uncertainty. That’s assuming, of course, that they were all baptized.