15 Most Confusing Movie Moments Nobody Understands

7. Crystal's Womb - Only God Forgives

Only God Forgives Julian Enters Crystal
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The Scene: When Julian (Ryan Gosling) finds the corpse of his mother Crystal (Kristen Scott Thomas), he slices her abdomen open and places his hands inside her uterus. Granted, there's not a lot that really makes sense in this movie, but still...What. The. F***!?

What It Probably Means: Considering the rather unconventional mother-son relationship Julian and Crystal have, it's easy to draw an incestual reading from this scene. After all, Crystal made a derisive comment about his penis in an earlier scene, and in this moment, it could be said that Julian is quite literally "entering" his mother. Then there's the Freudian notion that every man desires to return to the womb, and so Julian's curiosity allows him to experience that in a small way.

The scene was apparently concocted by Gosling himself after director Nicolas Winding Refn asked whether he wanted to smile or cry after his mother's death, and he said he wanted to see what was insider her uterus, with no apparent further explanation being given.

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