The video above is the ending of a movie launched in 1969 called The Italian Job. It is a wonderful example of a type of ending for a movie called a CLIFFHANGER.
SHOCKER = THRILLER = SUSPENSE-FILLER = CLIFFHANGER
Here is another great movie ending:
This would be what we call a TEAR JERKER - one that really makes you cry.
A movie ending
that I'll never forget
that was completely unexpected
that left a lot of questions answered
that left an atmosphere of tension or suspense. 
As I was talking about in class, recently I saw again the first Star Trek movie, which was released at 1979: "Star Trek: The Motion Picture". Well, its ending is one of the most fascinating and inspiring ideas I have seen in a film.
ReplyDeleteSo you have this too powerful creature that is coming from the space and is like a cosmic cloud as big as a continent. It's headed to earth and nobody has any idea about what it is or could want. After it destroyed three space ships and a space station, Enterprise is sent to try to stop it or to avoid it to get to earth.
The creature named itself as "Vger" and says that it seeks his "creator", which would live supposedly in our planet, although nobody knows who exactly would be him. Through the course of the story, the crew of the Enterprise succeed in realizing that "Vger" is a kind of great computer that has gathered information from all over the universe and now asks for the meaning of its own existence.
But the great insight is only at the end. Once Capitain Kirk, Spock and Dr. Mccoy managed to access to the "heart" of "Vger", they discover an old but familiar machine. They recognize it as Voyager 6, a lost space prob that really existed in XX century. They guess then that this prob has been found by an alien race, probably living machines, which has reassembled and improved it and sent it back to fulfill its program, i.e., to learn all that it is to be known in the universe and then to return the data to its creator.
There's still an interesting plot about the merging of man and machine, because since the prob has acquired self-consciousness, it looks forward some kind of relationship or community with its creator, which actually are we ourselves. That is, it wants to love (what on the other hand puts another problem, since the prob doesn't have a living body, and the solution given at the end of the movie is equally suggesting and poetic).
It's quite astonishing to think that an adventure film could bring so interesting ideas.