Tony stops being weak when he meets Bobby Andes (Michael Shannon) who encourages him to seek revenge on the men who raped and murdered his family. She looks an awful lot like her, granted, but she hasn’t been able to fully place herself in the assumed role of the wife.
However, the wife in the book is not Susan. While Susan is reading this book, she attributes Tony to Edward. It’s a good old fashioned, ‘dead to me’ metaphor. Killing his child and killing his connection with her. Tony, the guy in the book is an absolute coward, and it results in the death of his wife and child.Īnd yes, the death of the wife and child is all about her getting an abortion and cheating on him. Some of the reason Susan left Edward is because she thought he was weak. To give it a bit of context I need to go back to the start, so bear with me. I have done an extract analysis of the final scene and have come up with my own understanding of what this film is really all about. Not Edward.ĭid Edward stand Susan up out of spite and revenge? Or is Edward actually dead? It’s not as cut and dry as that I’m afraid, well at least not in my opinion. The story we are told is done so through her point of view. It is fairly obvious that the story is about their marriage, however there is an aspect of this that many have overlooked.
The absence of Edward and the meaning of his novel have been ‘left to interpretation’ by Ford. Susan’s (Amy Adams) tear stained eyes as she sits alone, waiting for her ex-husband Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal) to arrive has struck a chord with many. The internet has exploded with theories on the supposedly ambiguous ending – perfectly etched into our brains by stylish director, Tom Ford. Nocturnal Animals has been by far one of the most heavily debated films of 2016.
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