Now was that a bitch move? It might sound like a funny question, but it’s also a legitimate one. She got all dressed up for dinner, with hopes of getting back with Edward (or at least get his attention back). Do you know what’s even sadder? Susan is now a lonely woman. Edward wrote an amazing book (inspired by the break-up) and now Susan is in a loveless marriage with a cheating husband. Personally, I’m more inclined towards the latter: that Edward didn’t die and that he has moved on. The book was his way of showing that he can write a pretty damn good novel and that he has finally moved on. Yes, the main character in his book dies but that was just a metaphor to illustrate how Edward feels about Susan. Nothing “bad” happened to Edward for him to miss that dinner with Susan. What Susan did to him was too unbearable and he is not able get over what happened.Įnding 2 – Edward doesn’t die. He kills himself and the book was his last goodbye to Susan. What happened to Edward? Why didn’t Edward show up? There are mainly two different ways to read the ending of Nocturnal Animals.Įnding 1 – Edward dies. Let’s talk about that inconclusive ending. Nocturnal Animals (Movie) – Ending Meaning Tony dying in end, represents the impact that the divorce had on him. As a matter of fact, karma has already hit her door: Susan’s current husband is unfaithful and neglectful of her. In addition, he hopes that Susan gets what she deserves. Why? Ray dying in the story, is Edward’s way of saying f*ck to Susan for what she did. Why is Anne a “bad guy” too? She always disapproved of their relationship, calling Edward unworthy of Susan. Hutton knew that Susan was a married woman, when the two started having an affair. Who are the other two culprits (Turk and Lou)? Probably, Hutton (Susan’s current husband) and Anne (Susan’s mother). In Edward’s eyes, she took away their chance of being happy together, when she decided to leave him and not have his baby. Susan is Ray, the major culprit in this story. That’s how Edward probably felt about the divorce and the abortion. The three individuals that ruined his life, appeared out nowhere. In Edward’s story, Tony is as a happy family man on a trip with his loving family. In the novel, Tony has a wife and a daughter, which symbolizes the life he could have had with Susan, if they didn’t breakup. So who is who in the novel? Let’s start with the most obvious, Tony is Edward and everybody else is a representation of Edward’s feelings about the breakup. Nocturnal Animals (Edward’s Novel) – Ending Meaning Due to the head injury, Tony stumbles and falls into his own gun, shooting his own abdomen.
Tony shoots Ray, but he still manages to hit his head with a iron bar. At the shack, where the murders took place, Ray confesses raping and murdering Tony’s wife and daughter. Andes shoots Lou, but Ray manages to escape.
Meanwhile, both culprits attempt to escape. With Tony’s help, he kidnaps Lou and Ray. That’s when, Andes decides to take matters into his own hands. However, he lets him go as there wasn’t enough evidence to support a conviction. They found the bodies in an abandoned shack with signs of torture and rape.Īn year later, Andes asks Tony to identify Lou. Later on, Tony manages to escape to a nearby farmhouse and calls the police.ĭetective Roberto Andes, who’s in of charge of the case informs Tony that Laura and India are dead. Then, Lou forces Tony to drive Ray’s car. First, Ray and Turk take Laura and India away from Tony. On a fateful night, he runs into three local troublemakers: Ray, Lou and Turk. Tony Hastings is a family man on a road trip with his wife (Laura) and daughter (India). “Nocturnal Animal” used to be Edward’s nickname for Susan.
He dedicated the book to her and now he wants to know her opinion. One day, she receives an “unexpected” manuscript from her estranged ex-husband Edward. Directed by Tom Ford, the 2016 neo-noir psychological thriller stars Amy Adams as Susan and Jake Gyllenhaal as Edward.
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