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I believe that if a movie has an ambiguous or confusing ending that it could hinder the success of the movie but not always. The reason being is that a lot of people are not clever enough to figure out the endings of these movies. They get frusterated and confused and say they don't like it and might even give it a bad review (to their friends or on the internet) which could deter others from seeing it. However, I personally prefer it when movies leave unanswered questions because it gives me something to discuss or think about. Which gives the movie more depth and feeling than the movies that lay it all out for you. One movie that demonstrates this point is Donnie Darko. The reason why this movie is so good is because it's confusing. It takes multiple views and a lot of thinking to figure out the ending and that is why the movie is so amazing. You are allowed to create your own interpretations on the ending. But that might be why it did not do as well in the box office as other movies that explain everything for you.




Another movie that has a mysterious ending is Inception. The movie closes with a lingering shot of a top spinning which would determine whether Cob is still in a dream or not. This is an ending that has a lot of people arguing and thus holds a lot of intrigue. But this was sort of the opposite of Donnie Darko. The movie itself was not that confusing or ambiguous and it did exponentially better in the box office at 825 million against Donnie Darko's 4.1 million. So there is some truth to the correlation between how confusing the ending it is and how much money it makes.


And in terms of personal preference I do enjoy it when movies leave the ending ambiguous or open to interpretation or even just unexplained components of the movie that can drive me crazy thinking about like the briefcase in Pulp Fiction.  If they told me what was in it then it would ruin the mystique of it.