10 Infuriating Movie Cliff-hangers You Didn't Realise Had Answers
4. Lydia Tár's Fall From Grace - Tár
As the story of how conductor Lydia Tár fell from the top of her game to the very bottom, Tár is a complex and heavy story. The titular character suffers the consequences of her heinous actions, eventually losing her job working on a live recording of Mahler's Fifth Symphony in disgrace.
Throughout the movie, the character's personality is portrayed as one with a very pretentious view on music. Other forms of the art she loves are far beneath her, which is why the ending raised so many questions. Why would she accept a position conducting the music for a video game in front of a crowd of cosplayers?
Lydia Tár would have absolutely seen this as shameful, leading there to be a debate as to whether the ending is real, or some sort of guilt induced hallucination. It goes against her entire character to stoop so low, but what if she didn't? What if this was just a nightmare of sorts?
Again, though the movie itself remained ambiguous, according to editor Monika Willi there was a line in the movie that didn't make the final cut that explains the situation - "Tár never quits. Tár makes music across the globe, no matter the audience."
This confirms that the scene at the end is real, and that making this kind of music is better than making no music at all.