10 "Ambiguous" Movie Endings (That Totally Aren't)

Let's kick things off with unquestionably one of the most iconic "ambiguous" endings in all of cinema history - Ridley Scott's masterful sci-fi opus Blade Runner.

The film ends with blade runner Deckard (Harrison Ford) being saved by the very replicant he was hired to "retire", Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), after which Roy dies.

Deckard then returns to his apartment to meet his replicant lover Rachael (Sean Young), at which point he picks up an origami unicorn left by Gaff, recalls Gaff's (Edward James Olmos) words from earlier ("it's too bad she won't live, but then again who does?"), and heads off with Rachael.

This ending led audiences to debate whether or not Deckard was in fact a replicant himself, with Gaff's unicorn possibly suggesting that he has been able to access Deckard's dreams, given that we see him dreaming of a unicorn earlier in the film.

Blade Runner 2049 also flatly refused to clear the matter up either way, though it would be so grossly contradictory to the original movie's themes for Deckard to be a replicant, given that it is entirely concerned with how humans and replicants are basically one and the same, and the replicants appear to harbour more humanity than Deckard does.

Though Scott himself maintains that Deckard is a replicant, and Harrison Ford recently decided to agree with him, it's easy to invoke the good ol' Death of the Author in this case and assert the opposite.