10 Movie Endings With Disturbing Implications You Totally Missed

10. The Main Character Stole Somebody's Entire Life/Murdered Him Out Of Existence (Source Code)

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In Source Code, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Colter Stevens, a soldier who is assigned the task of working out what caused a horrific bombing on a train that left a lot of people dead. To do so, he uses a form of badass future technology which allows him to take over the body of one of the passengers (in this case, a teacher named Sean Fentress) during the last eight minutes of his life in a program that renders the scenario as it was before the attack.

It's later revealed that this technology can be used to actually change the future, which is good, because Colter has fallen in love with Fentress' girlfriend (who is also on the train) and really wants to save her. It's important to remember that, within the confines of this "simulation," she think Colter is Sean. He looks exactly like Sean, so why wouldn't she?

Anyway, by the end of the movie, Colter manages to prevent the attack, and realises he will remain in this altered version of the future with his new gal...

But Wait... What happened to Sean? You know, the guy whose body Colter hi-jacked for the purposes of this bomb prevention exercise? I mean, Colter has literally jacked into somebody else's soul and taken away their entire life. Not to mention the fact that Colter stole Sean's girlfriend, too - a girl who thinks that she's still in a relationship with Sean Fentress, by the way. I mean, this is creepy, right?

I can't be the only one who thinks that this lovely lady has got the right to know that her boyfriend is dead. And he is dead. His entire life has been plucked out from under his feet without his consent or knowing. Murdered is probably the right word here. Is this supposed to be a good thing? Are we, as an audience, supposed to cheer this scenario on? I won't. I simply won't.

 
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