The ending to the movie GLASS (SPOILERS)

[Paddy1989]

I watched this movie several hours ago and while i thoroughly enjoyed it overall i found the ending to be quite strange and off putting. As i said in the title there is major spoilers ahead so if you wish to watch the movie stop reading now. The ending has recorded security footage of superheroes in a duel sent out to millions of people on social media, it was done to open people up to a greater reality giving proof that superheroes truly exist.

When i watched this i couldn’t help think of miracles especially miracles from the time of Jesus right through the history of the Church, from mass experienced apparitions and miracles to stigmata, demonic possession, miracles of the Eucharist etc. The list goes on and on yet even such mass documented miracles which many in modern times have been investigated thoroughly by scientific means these things for the most part are either explained away or are ignored. Because of this i couldn’t relate to the ending which shows a population seeing something that explains a greater reality and yet believing it whenever we live in a world where generations of people have witnessed just that and fail to believe in it or simply ignore it without ever wanting to investigate it.

That is one thought i have, the other is that people would be more likely to believe in the existence of superheroes mainly because they want to believe in them therefore any evidence of their existence would be taken both seriously and passionately so the ending might be more plausible. Meanwhile however belief in God and a moral reality of objectivity crushes the ego so much perhaps people are more reluctant to believe in God even when there is not just evidence for God from miracles but from historical and philosophical means aswell.

What do other posters think of the movie ending, did you find it satisfying?

 

[Wampa]

That’s an interesting thought. I didn’t think of that at all during the movie, but I can see why you’d make the parallel. As far as the parallel making the ending less plausible, I think the difference is that the miracles throughout Church history don’t have recorded video. In the movie, people are seeing humans do beyond-human things on video and in a time when video evidence is very strongly persuasive. Christianity’s miracles (which I fully believe in) don’t have similar “smoking gun” video evidence for people to see, so I’m not sure the parallel works.

I didn’t really love the ending, but I get that they needed to do that as the logical conclusion of the second twist ending.

I loved the movie overall. The twists in Shyamalan movies (well, in his good ones) are what really do it for me and this movie paid off in spades. I’ve read the many negative reviews and I can only come to the conclusion that most reviewers are dumb (although I came to the realization long ago when the majority of them panned The Passion of the Christ as torture porn).