Standing Next To Me

Last year, around August. I saw this trailer for a movie. The trailer was only about 2 mins and was entirely shot using a handheld camera. It looked totally original and it gave me fucking goosebumps. The shot of the head of the statue of liberty being flung across the city was damn cool. And the trailer ended with only the release date of the movie which was 1-18-08. No title. As soon as i saw that trailer. I got so curious. What the hell was this movie about. I went through blogs of the movie. Looked into their official site. Read threads on it. I was practically like a geek waiting for the release of the new Apple PC. Hahaha.

Anyways, after months of waiting for the release of my eagerly anticipated movie, i got to watch it. Many people in front of me couldnt stand the shakiness of the camera and decided to ditch the movie BUT me, no no no, i was so excited by the movie. I literally had a 1 hour 30 minute long orgasm. Hahaha. After the movie, people interpreted it differently. Some people didnt like the ending because it wasnt a happy one. Hahaha. And some thought that the ending fitted the movie nicely. I thought the ending was super cool because nowadays, all hollywood movies end so happily. Hahaha. Once in awhile, its better for a dark ending to a movie. Haha. Anyway, i came across the best intepretation of the movie just now and it was from a thread in imdb. So props to the poster.

No way, the ending was totally appropriate. The monster was never the point of the movie. The film, in my opinion, was really two things:

1) a metaphor for the blind terror of 9/11--at the time, we didn't know what was going on, who had attacked us, or why. All we knew on that day was fear.
2) a simple love story, albeit not the best one of the year. Rob and Beth, longtime friends, fall in love and have a night/day together. The awkwardness that follows leads to a fight. The monster is really the thing that brings them together in the end--as they huddle under the bridge amid the bombings, they confess their love and die together (or not, judging from the alternate ending).

This, in my opinion, is a great ending, leaving the focus not on the monster, but on those affected.

-IMDB poster-

What do you think about the ending? :)