This film is hard to wrap your head around at first. Rather then give the viewer closure, it gives an extremely oblique ending. Why was Wilson walking down the road in only his underwear. (As a friend of mine pointed out about Bill in vol. 2, Where exactly was he walking to? Did he want to check out his garden with his last 5 steps?) I think that the ending is supposed to be a metaphor, rather then a literal interpretation.
Possible meanings: 1) The obvious metaphor is that Wilson is destroyed by the fire and is reborn. The match lights the destruction of his life and he is reborn. He wanders out into the world ready to begin again, a phoenix from the ashes.
2) Maybe the match combined with his huffing kill him and the metaphor is that in the end he is destroyed by her . The true victims of are those closest to the deceased and maybe the metaphor is that he is destroyed utterly by her choice. After all his of choice is similar to her method of , he carries a physical representation of her with him everywhere and he is only able to comes to terms with her after he has lost everything.
One last question: What was the significance of the scene of his wife drying after a shower? I love as much as the next guy but it seemed kind of random. If it was a hallucination, why her drying off?
I realize this isn't exactly groundbreaking stuff here but this is my first try.
Possible meanings: 1) The obvious metaphor is that Wilson is destroyed by the fire and is reborn. The match lights the destruction of his life and he is reborn. He wanders out into the world ready to begin again, a phoenix from the ashes.
2) Maybe the match combined with his huffing kill him and the metaphor is that in the end he is destroyed by her . The true victims of are those closest to the deceased and maybe the metaphor is that he is destroyed utterly by her choice. After all his of choice is similar to her method of , he carries a physical representation of her with him everywhere and he is only able to comes to terms with her after he has lost everything.
One last question: What was the significance of the scene of his wife drying after a shower? I love as much as the next guy but it seemed kind of random. If it was a hallucination, why her drying off?
I realize this isn't exactly groundbreaking stuff here but this is my first try.