After all, all through the movie, we assume that Teddy should be nuts. He clearly spends an excessive amount of time on the web, and he’s undergone excessive emotional harm from the ordeal of his meth-addicted mom, an ordeal made worse by defective medicine administered by Fuller’s firm. Each time Michelle admits that she is an Andromedan, we viewers simply assume that she’s manipulating Teddy to discover a approach out.
However within the ultimate moments of the movie, after Don and Teddy have each met bloody ends, we see Michelle return to her ship and inform her fellow Andromedans that their experiments have failed. From her ship, she instantly kills all of the people on Earth, and the movie closes with an extended montage of animals and crops alongside the corpses of individuals, all set to the folks track “The place Have All of the Flowers Gone?”
So surprising is the ending that not even Lanthimos’s stars know what to make of it. Of their dialog with EW, each Stone and Plemons admitted that they weren’t 100% who was at fault for the explosion that kills Teddy within the ultimate moments, simply when it appeared that Michelle was going to beam him into her ship.
“Yeah, I imply, I at all times assumed it was Teddy, actually,” Stone defined. “There was a friction state of affairs, and he obtained caught, and that factor was a selfmade [bomb].” However Plemons was drawn to the concept Michelle killed Teddy, saying, “I just like the [kill switch] beaming factor. That’s the one factor he didn’t take into consideration.”
For his half, Lanthimos is simply glad that individuals can see many various prospects.
As excessive because the ending is, Lanthimos understands why folks see hope in it. “It’s a movie,” he reminded viewers; “and nature survives, and it form of permits the hope of a second likelihood at every part restarting.” Thus, “some folks see it this fashion as an alternative of all of it ended. So I believe it says issues in regards to the viewer themselves, how they really feel in the long run. And I believe typically it’d change. If it sticks of their head, perhaps they give it some thought [later] and go like, ‘Yeah, perhaps it’s hopeful. It’s not that bleak, truly.’”