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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > The Credits: Not just for the Best Boy's mom anymore
 
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Feb 18, 2014

Timeless Appeal posted:


Children of Men is a good example of this. The sound of children at play that fills the end credits doesn't just exist in stark contrast to the childless film that proceeded it, but gives hope that the boat seen in the film's end actually is the one our protagonists were trying to find and not just random boat. The choice to have the sound of kids playing fills the viewer with both hope that things worked out and a reminder of just how sad the world without children we just witnessed was.

Brilliant example that enhanced the gut-punch of the movie.

Timeless Appeal posted:

Credits are a meditative experience.

What comes to mind for me are the end credits of The Fountain, which for all its flaws, still had me sitting in the theater watching microbes luminesce while I deconstructed what 'd just witnessed while listening to calm piano music.

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