Shallow Grave ending

I was going to say that I had no idea what brought this to mind, but I do. This morning on the way to work I was listening to a CD I made a few years ago which has the song "Happy Heart" by Andy Williams on it, and everyone who is cool knows that song from the spectacular ending of the movie Shallow Grave. I get chills listening to that song only because the ending of that movie always plays in my mind during it, and during the little musical interlude I always have to say David's lines the exact way he said them in the movie: "Oh yes. I believe in friends...." and the rest of it.

So that movie was on my mind again (I wish I knew more people I could show it to who hadn't seen it already; I love to watch their reactions through the movie and have another excuse to watch it again.) Anyway, so there is a huge controversy about Alex's (Ewan McGregor) fate at the end, and until I'd read all the fights and flaming and nonsense over it, it had never even ocurred to me that it might be something other than what I had thought.

But suddenly I realized tonight that it was exactly as I'd always thought, and here's precisely why: ( Major spoiler )

Simple, if you think about it. Mystery solved.

Anyway, I felt this was blogworthy, as it is one of my alltime favorite films and I now feel like I totally understand the ending. ^_~

And here it is, one of the handful of images that inspired an entire series of novels out of me. ^_^

Shallow Grave ending

I was going to say that I had no idea what brought this to mind, but I do. This morning on the way to work I was listening to a CD I made a few years ago which has the song "Happy Heart" by Andy Williams on it, and everyone who is cool knows that song from the spectacular ending of the movie Shallow Grave. I get chills listening to that song only because the ending of that movie always plays in my mind during it, and during the little musical interlude I always have to say David's lines the exact way he said them in the movie: "Oh yes. I believe in friends...." and the rest of it.

So that movie was on my mind again (I wish I knew more people I could show it to who hadn't seen it already; I love to watch their reactions through the movie and have another excuse to watch it again.) Anyway, so there is a huge controversy about Alex's (Ewan McGregor) fate at the end, and until I'd read all the fights and flaming and nonsense over it, it had never even ocurred to me that it might be something other than what I had thought.

But suddenly I realized tonight that it was exactly as I'd always thought, and here's precisely why: ( Major spoiler )

Simple, if you think about it. Mystery solved.

Anyway, I felt this was blogworthy, as it is one of my alltime favorite films and I now feel like I totally understand the ending. ^_~

And here it is, one of the handful of images that inspired an entire series of novels out of me. ^_^