
Spoilers · the ending
Thesis: the ending, explained
Alejandro Amenábar · 1996
This page gives the ending away. Not seen the film yet? Its spoiler-free guide is here.

Spoilers · the ending
Alejandro Amenábar · 1996
This page gives the ending away. Not seen the film yet? Its spoiler-free guide is here.
What happens
Cornered, Ángela fights for her life against a killer who wants to film her death. She survives and exposes the truth, which shows the danger was inside her own university all along.
The last image
The film closes on a sense that the images still circulate and the appetite for them has not gone away.
What it says
Ángela begins as an observer and ends up inside the image. Her escape settles the plot but not the question, because the film implicates us too: our curiosity about violence is part of what keeps such images alive.