My favourite movie endings ever! (Part 2)

So, as I didn't want my previous post to be super long and boring I decided to divide it into two parts, this is part 2 (as it says in the title)

WARNING: This post is full of spoilers on the following movies: Mid90s, Frances Ha, Midsommar, Dirty Dancing, and Pulp Fiction.

Mid90s, 2018.

Jonah´s Hill directorial debut stars Sunny Suljic as a 13-year-old boy who starts to skate with some cool older kids and he starts to change a lot. The movie was absolutely amazing, especially the cinematography as I said in my Mid90s review post. So, in the movie, after Stevie's mom tells him to not see his friends again because they are a bad company, he goes to a skaters reunion, or whatever that was, and when the party is over, Fuckshit tells them to go to a party in a girl´s house, he´s pretty wasted but they all accept. They have a car crash. In the next scene we can see Stevie sleeping in a hospital room and Stevie´s mom, played by Katherine Waterston, goes to the waiting room and sees all Stevie´s friends sleeping in the chairs. She offers them to go to Stevie´s room to see how he´s doing. They accept and they all go into Stevie´s room and chat with him for a while and at a certain point of that conversation Fourthgrade asks them if they to see something cool and he connects his camera to the hospital's room tv and we can see all of them looking at the tv and then Fourthgrade movie, which he had been recording the whole movie, starts playing. Turns out Fourthgrade was actually talented!

Frances Ha, 2012.

This movie written by Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig and directed by Noah Baumbach stars Greta Gerwig as Frances Halladay, a 27-year-old dancer living in NY with her best friend. So, throughout the whole movie, we can see Frances struggling with finding her place and how her life starts to fall apart, and things don´t turn out to be how she wanted them to be. She breaks up with her boyfriend because she doesn´t want to move in with him as she wants to stay living in her apartment with her best friend and later in the movie her best friend tells her that she´s moving out with her boyfriend. Her relationship with her best friend starts to become colder and Frances gets fired from the dance company. Fortunately, by the end of the film, we get to see a proud Frances who has become a choreographer and all her friends are attending her first show. We can also see her having kind of a suggestive conversation with her ex-roommate Benji, who used to call her "undateable". In the end scene, we can see a happy Frances in her new apartment, putting a paper with her name in the mailbox and as the whole name Frances Halladay doesn´t fit she ends up cutting the paper and she puts it in the mailbox: Frances Ha. We can see that Frances's life didn´t turn out as she wanted but she is now living a happy not perfect but really nice life.

Midsommar, 2019.

Ari Aster´s second film starring Florence Pugh as Dani, a girl who is going through a very hard moment in her life, her whole family is dead after her sister´s suicide attempt with carbon monoxide killed her and her parents and also, her relationship with her boyfriend is going downhill. So, Christian, Dani´s boyfriend, decides to invite Dani on a vacation with his friends to Sweden to celebrate the Midsummer festivity. As the movie goes on we can see how dangerous and wicked the whole festivity is and all of Christian friends get killed. Very disturbing things happen, for example, people jumping off a cliff in order to kill themselves as they have already reached the age when they are supposed to die, some love spell regarding menstrual blood and even, cannibalism. We can see Dani feeling lonely and misunderstood throughout the whole movie. She participates in a dance contest and ends up winning it and becoming the May Queen. She looks for her boyfriend in order to tell him she won and she finds him cheating on her doing a very weird ritual with some Swedish women. Dani has a huge mental breakdown and then, a ritual takes place in which they put Christian inside of a bear, literally, and some other man puts them in a house and burns them, as a sacrifice. When can see Dani´s face when the house starts burning and her boyfriend starts to shout, at first really disturbed and shock, but eventually, she starts smiling. We can take that a pretty macabre and crazy moment but I think it´s also kind of a beautiful moment, as Dani finally feels like she belongs somewhere and that there´s people that support her after all the traumatic moments she had been through the last weeks.

Dirty Dancing, 1987.

This all-time-classic written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emilie Ardolino stars Jennifer Grey as Baby, a 17-year-old spending her summer vacation in a hotel. There, she will meet Johnny, played by Patrick Swayze, who is a dancer in the hotel. They will both have to become dance partners as Johnny´s dance partner, Penny, is pregnant, and they will fall in love. Baby and Johnny will start to see each other secretly as dancer-client relationships are not allowed in the hotel and also, Baby´s dad dislikes Johnny. Baby´s parents will forbid her from seeing Johnny and they will have to say goodbye to each other. By the end of the film, Johnny shows up to the hotel talent show, goes to Baby´s family desk as says "Nobody puts Baby on a corner", he takes Baby´s hand, takes her to stage and they both start dancing "(I´ve Had) The Time of my Life". One of the most romantic, beautiful, and epic end scenes in movie history no doubt!

Pulp Fiction, 1994.

Tarantino´s masterpiece is one of the most memorable and iconic movies ever and is full of famous quotes and moments. So, the cool thing about Pulp Fiction, apart from everything, is the fact that the narrative is non-linear and the end scene is a continuation of the opening scene. In the opening scene, we can see "Pumpkin" and "Honey Bunny" about to rob in a diner restaurant, then the opening credits show up and we get to know Vincent and Jules. Also, Butch and Marsellus Wallace and Vicent get killed by Butch. But in the end scene, Vincent is still alive and he and Jules are in the same restaurant as "Pumpkin" and "Honey Bunny". Jules convinces "Honey Bunny" on not taking the briefcase they were carrying, the one that belongs to Marsellus Wallace, and just take the wallet. And then we can see Jules and Vincent, with the briefcase, walking out of the restaurant and Waitin´ In School starts to sound.