I thought the ending might mean that the things she thought she knew were not so certain.
Just watched 15 minutes of Dungeons and Dragons in order to cofirm that it’s the same Thora Birch. It’s the same Thora Birch.
Evil Death:
It was all dressed up and nowhere to go.
The characters were all unpleasant, even the ones we should have been rooting for.
Nothing all that interesting happened inside the Hole.
Thora Birch, playing an English girl, never found an accent she could stick with.
That’s odd, because I got the very distinct impression that when the bus finally comes, that it’s supposed to be either symbolic or have an other-worldly explanation. The way I saw it, it certainly didn’t seem to fit with such a mundane explanation as the bus stop being put back in service.
Great movie.
To me, it was simply Enid moving on. However in the larger sense of the movie, it was about Enid not being so smug. She thinks she’s got everything figured out and although our sympathies lie with her for the most part, she’s not really a nice person. She’s smug, she’s selfish, she’s inconsiderate. So when the bus actually comes to that stop after she’d mocked Bus Stop Man for sitting there, it rocks her little world out of her complacency.
It wasn’t a symbol for death but for growing up. (The death of her childhood, maybe). The old man at the bus stop represents everything that Enid relies on, all the comforts of her childhood – her friendship with Scarlett Johansen’s character whose name I forget (Rebecca, according to preview), having her father all to herself, the predictability of the city she lives in. And even her childish defensive mechanism of making fun of everything and everyone else to feel as if she’s in control of her life. Over the course of the movie, she sees everyone else moving on, growing up, and dealing with life instead of just mocking it. She makes tentative steps to grow up with Seymour, who’s not quite a fully-functional adult himself.
When the old man boards the bus, it’s the last thing she could rely on. She realizes that the world she knew was gone and she’s going to have to move on.
It is mundane. It has Rebecca and Enid sitting on a bench and Rebecca says, “It just occured to me–Where’s Norman?”
Enid: Hey look! They re-activated this bus stop.
Then they see the bus leave.
Now that I look back, it does show some sort of follower. It’s the guy who’s been writing the graffitti. Enid has her bag and is trying to follow him, but he runs away. She keeps on walking, and sees Rebecca in the window of a cafe and says, “You’re grown into a very beautiful, young woman”. Keeps walking and boards the re-activated bus. The End.
Maybe they changed it so it wouldn’t seem so mundane?