Reply #21: "Weekend" by Jean-Luc Godard

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After an orgy of violence, murder, rape and cannibalism (No, not at the pig farm in Crawford...:evilgrin:), Godard flashes two titles: "End of Film" "End of Cinema"
Other candidates: "WHatever Happened to Baby Jane?" when the extent of Joan Crawford's character's evil is revealed and she cheats justice by dying, leaving the insane Jane to deal with the repercussions.
Anna Magnani lying dead on the street in "Open City."
Mia Farrow cooing at her cloven-footed child in "Rosemary's Baby."
Most heartbreaking: "Forbidden Games" 1952, directed by Rene Clement, with the orphaned girl screaming as she is separated from her only friend and Mia Farrow looking through tears at a dancing Fred Astaire , knowing she's stuck in an awful life in "The Purple Rose of Cairo"
Greatest last shot ever: Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" A blind prince unknowingly standing at the edge of a cliff, whose guide has been murdered, though he's unaware of this, and who drops the flute he uses to express the best in himself. He gropes for the flute on the edge of the precipice as the sun sets behind him. This, folks, is the human condition in one shot.