And it felt OK to me! On balance, it seems like, thematically, it's a pretty good companion piece to 'Shawshank,' in a weird way. He pointed to the original 'Night Of The Living Dead' as one of those endings that just scarred you. I wish I'd thought of it.' He said that, once a generation, a movie should come along that just really pisses the audience off, and flips their expectations of a happy ending right on the head. "He read it and said, 'Oh, I love this ending. Years later in 2016, Darabont talked about getting the master's approval and what the ending meant to him to Yahoo!:
It is the most shocking ending ever and there should be a law passed stating that anybody who reveals the last 5 minutes of this film should be hung from their neck until dead." With only the best of intentions, David tries throughout the story to protect his son from harm, but by ultimately giving in to fear, he destroyed his life. It's an extra dagger to show that fear is, in many ways, an illusion. Flash forward to the end, and one of the passengers onboard a rescue truck being escorted by the army is that very woman, holding her two children to her. Crippled by fear of the horrors that await outside, no one volunteers, not even David. To understand the most symbolic aspect of the ending you have to mentally rewind to early on in the crisis when an unnamed woman played by Darabont's future "Walking Dead" star Melissa McBride asks for someone in the supermarket to leave and walk home with her so she can get her two kids. The mist begins to clear and David realizes that if he had waited five more minutes he, his son, and his friends would have been saved.īut that is not the true knife through the heart. More tanks follow with armed soldiers wielding flamethrowers. Something emerges from the mist, but it is not a monster.
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