I was watching “Monsieur Verdoux” when I was called away. It was a funny little movie but Ididn’t get to see how it ended. Help me please.
Yours,
Fern Forest
Verdoux is caught (or, rather, lets himself be caught) and sentenced to death. He makes a speech that he’s no different from governments and is only being punished because he hasn’t killed as many people as governments do. Then he goes to his death, led out of his cell after eating something (I don’t recall what) from his last meal and commenting he had never tasted it before.
He makes the decision to do this after running into the woman he met earlier: the woman standing forlornly in a doorway who he correctly surmised had fallen on hard times. Remember, he invited her back to his flat so he could test his foolproof poison? And he was affected by the combination of her sob story and the rather hardcase attitude she had to the world, which reflected his own somewhat? So he dumped out the wine he had poisoned and was going to give her? Right. He bumps into her again; he’s penniless, having lost everything in a bank panic, and after learning that she’s done well in the world, he makes the snap decision to turn himself in and confess to everything.
Somewhat less than satisfying, in my opinion, given the rather cheerfully morbid movie that preceded it.
Merci guys.