10 Insane Endings From Recent Movies

Surely nobody saw the ending to The Brutalist coming, for after three and a half hours of absorbing yet increasingly bleak drama, director Brady Corbet closed things out in wildly unexpected fashion.

The film's epilogue leaps forward several decades to 1980, where a retrospective of architect László Tóth's (Adrien Brody) work is being held in Venice, showcasing the projects he completed in the preceding years.

Here László's now-adult niece Zsófia (Ariane Labed) gives a speech, revealing that The Van Buren Institute he spent much of the movie trying to build was designed to resemble the concentration camps he and his late wife (Felicity Jones) were incarcerated in.

Zsófia then signs off with the intriguing yet ambiguous final line, "No matter what the others try and sell you, it is the destination, not the journey," before the jarringly cheery Italian disco tune "One for You, One for Me" kicks in to play us out.

It's certainly an ending that's divided audiences, some appreciating the irony of Corbet ending his Grim Prestige Movie with such an upbeat song, while others are still struggling to wrap their head around what the final scene is really saying about art and capitalism.