Sometimes, maybe most of the time, ambiguous endings are cop-outs. The crime isn’t in subverting audience expectations—who wants movies without surprises?—but in betraying the stories themselves. Most stories deserve definitive endings, and audiences are rightfully frustrated when they don’t get them. But sometimes the situation is reversed and an ambiguous ending is the only way not to betray the story.
“Sound of My Voice” follows Peter, a budding filmmaker who infiltrates (for lack of a less freighted term) a cult, which is built around a woman claiming to have traveled back in time from the future. Peter drags his girlfriend along as he tries to bring down the cult and its leader, Maggie, with a biting documentary, but the more enmeshed he gets with Maggie the more his skepticism wavers. By the end of the film Peter’s feelings about Maggie reach a sort of equilibrium:...
“Sound of My Voice” follows Peter, a budding filmmaker who infiltrates (for lack of a less freighted term) a cult, which is built around a woman claiming to have traveled back in time from the future. Peter drags his girlfriend along as he tries to bring down the cult and its leader, Maggie, with a biting documentary, but the more enmeshed he gets with Maggie the more his skepticism wavers. By the end of the film Peter’s feelings about Maggie reach a sort of equilibrium:...
- 11/30/2012
- by Scott Armstrong
- The Moving Arts Journal
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