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5 Movies With Confusing Endings That Left People Thinking

Whether they are cliffhangers or out of the box endings, they left the audience with questions

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5 Movies With Confusing Endings That Left People Thinking

There are a lot of movies that have cliffhangers or confusing endings that leave the audience questioning what they just watched. Personally, those type of movies are my favorite. Here are 5 movies that left a lot of people with questions. Spoilers!

1. "Donnie Darko"

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Donnie Darko is an overall confusing movie with Jake Gyllenhaal (playing Donnie) seeing a creepy bunny named Frank who is telling him the world is going to end. Donnie see's a therapist throughout the movie and also sleep walks. It is unclear on if Frank is an hallucination and it is all in Donnie's head or if he was actually getting warnings about the end of the world. The very end he decides to change the turn of events by sacrificing himself. Once he does the time goes back and everything is put back to place. Donnie Darko is one of those movies that can be interrupted in many ways.

2. "Enemy"

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Here is another Jake Gyllenhaal movie with a confusing ending. The story is a professor named Adam who learns he has a double and starts trying to find more about the man's life. It is a thriller as he focuses on finding out more about the guy who looks exactly like him. The two doubles end up really infecting each others lives. Occasionally throughout the movie there are random spiders.

The very end Adam is with his doppleganger's wife and when he walks into the room, he sees that she turned into this giant spider and then the movie ends. This is one of those movies that I have tried to figure out the end and end up with different opinions. According to Screenrant, they think the spider "represents Adam's issues with women" which makes sense because anytime there was a spider, there was a woman.

3. "Fight Club"

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Fight Club is another movie that has different opinions. The main character (Edward Nortan) meets this carefree guy Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and they start a fight club. The ending shows that Pitt's character was a hallucination but that leaves you questioning what was his hallucination and what was real. We know Pitt's character wasn't but the question is were all the members of fight club real? What about Marla (Helena Bonham Carter)? I noticed in the movie Marla asked "who are all those men?" which means that if she is real then all the members of the fight club is. Everyone I have asked has a different opinion.

4. "Closer"

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Closer is about a stripper named Alice (Natalie Portman) who moved to London and meets Dan (Jude Law). Then Dan starts flirting with a photographer named Anna (Julia Roberts) who eventually is with dermatologist Larry (Clive Owen). Dan and Anna get together and the relationships are shattered. There is a scene with Larry and Alice at a strip club and he asks for her name but instead of saying Alice, she says Jane. He thought she was lying but then at the end of the movie, you find out her name was actually Jane. She kept a lot of her identity to herself but it was a bit confusing at the end.

5. "The Butterfly Effect"

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The Butterfly Effect is an overall confusing movie. It's about a college student Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher) has headaches that cause him to black out and when he does he travels back in time. He alters the past but then it alters the present. Evan ends up in a lot of difficult situations because he keeps changing the past. Now the ending of this movie is very interesting because there are two different endings.

I personally, saw the director's cut which is really strange where he goes back in time when he was in his mother's womb and strangles himself with the umbilical cord. Considering that is a very dark ending they made multiple alternate endings and decided the ending would be him threatening his friend Kayleigh (Amy Smart) when they were little, making it so they wouldn't be friends again. This makes it so she can live a better life and not be affected by him.

These movies left people with questions of what was real and what was not. Some just needed clarification and some of them are still a bit of a mystery. In my opinion, the best movies are the ones that make you think and so I think these directors deserve an applause.

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