10 Strangest Endings In Movie History

9. No Country for Old Men

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH4IhjtaAUQ No Country for Old Men was a stellar thriller that made it clear early on that the Coen Brothers weren't going to just go the traveled path. It begins getting weird once the film's protagonist, Llewelyn Moss, is murdered off-screen, a bizarre exercise in audience torture that denies them the bloody satisfaction of seeing him get blown to pieces. It reaches its weird apex once we arrive at the final scene, one of the most elliptical and frustrating scenes in the history of contemporary Hollywood. Tommy Lee Jones' Ed Tom Bell spends the final moments of the film discussing a dream that features his dead father, an attempt to make the film seem "deep", when in actuality it just causes the film to sputter to a whimper rather than end on the more satisfying note of Anton Chigurh walking off into the sunset just moments earlier. Yes, this violent, harsh wilderness is no place for old men, we get it, and Ed Tom Bell is getting closer to death, yes, it all makes sense; don't try and cloud it amid a vaguely symbolic description of a dream sequence. It's not clever or particularly intriguing; the smash cut to black is infuriating, whether true to the novel or not.