10 More Most Confusing Movie Moments Nobody Understands
The Big Short was still confusing even after Margot Robbie's interjection.
When done well, movies can have the amazing ability to elicit emotion from an audience. From depression and anxiety, to elation and pure happiness, cinema has the keys to manipulating you into feeling just about anything. Yes, this does include feeling stupid.
Rest assured, this is the same for everybody. If anyone tells you they have never sat in the cinema, even after the credits rolled, and wondered what the hell was going on, they aren't telling you the truth. Hell, some movies are even designed to make you feel that way.
Then of course there are those moments where a story just didn't offer quite as much context as it should have done, or cut to black at the end without the explanation or closure that would have wrapped things up with a neat little bow.
Back in 2015, WhatCulture took a look at Confusing Movie Moments Nobody Understands, but this list will offer 10 more examples, from scenes that seemingly broke the rules already established earlier in the film, to riddles that had no hope of being answered, and even scenes that tried to explain confusing moments themselves, but just made things worse.
10. Why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk? - Alice In Wonderland
The vast majority of movie scenes are supposed to be understood by the audience, though there are some where the point is to create confusion and uncertainty. Then, on another level entirely is Alice in Wonderland, and in particular Ed Wynn's Mad Hatter.
Amidst the bizarre things the character says and does in the film, he poses a riddle to Alice (Kathryn Beaumont). Why is a raven like a writing desk? Before she barely has a chance to ponder the question, things have moved on to fixing the White Rabbit's clock, and an answer is never given.
In Tim Burton's remake from 2010, the riddle is doubled down on, as Alice asks the question back to Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter later in the movie, to which even he admits that he has no idea. If even the one posing the riddle doesn't know the answer, then how is anybody else supposed to understand it?
It was apparently author Lewis Carroll's intention for the riddle to have no answer at all, though after being mobbed by questions about it he provided one in a later edition of his novel. "Because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front." No wonder absolutely no one could make sense of it, but that was also the point.