10 Insane Endings From Recent Movies
3. Queer
Daniel Craig's surreal new drama Queer takes place in 1950s Mexico City, as an American expatriate, William Lee (Daniel Craig), becomes obsessed with a much younger man, Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey).
This being an adaptation of a William S. Burroughs novel, it's not terribly surprising that things get really, really weird in the home stretch.
After the two men visit the Ecuadorian jungle and trip out on ayahuasca, they decide to leave, at which point we abruptly cut to two years later, where Lee resurfaces in Mexico City.
Lee soon learns that Allerton has gone to South America, leading to a hallucinogenic final sequence where Lee finds a vision of Allerton in a hotel room, shoots him dead in a game of William Tell gone wrong, and the pair both vanish.
Lee then rematerialises in his own hotel room as an old man, where he curls up on the bed while recalling his time with Allerton, the implication being that Lee dies in the film's final moments.
Queer is a polarising film by its very nature, and sustains that hypnotic, beguiling rhythm all the way through to its final shot.