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I'll start off by saying this was a great movie. “The Third Hotel,” by Laura van den Berg (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) The novel begins when its heroine, Clare, travels to Havana for a Latin American film festival. I saw rumors of a prequel coming out next … The final shot of … In that sense, Third Person feels like an overly lengthy shaggy-dog joke with a worthwhile build-up and a questionable payoff. The movie felt believable and real. One of the best found footage films I've seen. But this time, the ending of John Wick: Chapter 3 has bigger implications for the world of the Continental, and for John Wick, than the endings of the last two movies. But van den Berg’s readers are looking not for simplicity but for a bit of clarity, and “The Third Hotel” doesn’t always deliver it. “We like simple stories.” Well, sometimes we do. It sets up a third-act twist so astonishingly obvious as to be completely and totally unforgivable. Spoilers ahead! Was it a demonic cult? Meanwhile, the ending to Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy isn't as vague as Inception.After flying a nuclear bomb out of Gotham City, Batman escapes the … The Third Hotel is a novel that operates in symbols and layers, which means you can read it however you like. The ending was sort of open ended I feel. minor revelation regarding the ending of Cabin At The End of the World [SPOILERS] spoiler after seeing a few complaints about the "unresolved" nature of the climax, I started thinking about it and realised that not only did I really like the end of this book, but that I had no definite opinion about whether or not the end of the world was in fact nigh at the end of the book. It will unmoor you, send you wobbling around your house in a haze. One does not thank a drill sergeant at the end of a hard day at boot camp, and there is certainly no love lost when it comes to the ending of Third Person. Did Paul kill the rest of his friends and then himself after being possessed by that demon woman from earlier? It will slide some eels under your skin. Five weeks earlier, Richard was hit by a car and killed. We follow her, beguiled and afraid and not quite sure what to think, but helplessly sure of what to feel. Meanwhile, two of Hank’s fellow hotel-dwellers ( Robin Bartlett and Kurt Fuller) notice the ongoing flirtation between grown-ass Hank and teenage Josie. Much like Haggis’ racism-in-L.A. Best Picture-winner Crash , Third Person presents itself as an everything-is-connected movie in the Short Cuts or Amores Perros vein, with different stories taking place in different places, all linked by a thin connective thread. Hell House LLC (spoilers) spoiler. Her husband, Richard, was a film studies professor specializing in horror, and it’s horror that sets the tone. Recently widowed Clare travels to Havana to attend a film festival that her husband, a horror film …