The Mattei Affair ending explained

What happens

After retracing Mattei's life, the film ends with his final flight north from Sicily, back at the crash it opened with. It names no culprit. It shows the contradictions in the official account and leaves the verdict to you.

The last image

The film closes on the final flight and the crash that began it, with no verdict or culprit given.

Two readings

1 · A killing, strongly impliedThe contradictions and motives it lays out point toward sabotage, as a later inquiry concluded.

2 · An open inquiryRosi claims no proof, so the ending asks for your judgment, not his.

What it says

Ending where it began turns the film into a reconstruction, and you finish as an investigator. Refusing a verdict makes the real question who gains from each official story, which no single crash can settle.