Unfinished Masterpieces











    1. It’s definitely in the public domain and this leads to so many iterations of it. You might be thinking of the novel Drood?
      But then there are works like the Sherlock Holmes stories that fall both in the public domain and not, so there was a recent court case about this.

  1. I actually thought The Sense of an Ending *had* an ending, or at least a good stopping point. I also know people who didn’t care for it, but I found the conclusion “complete enough” to be satisfying.

    1. I did, too. I think people didn’t like that it was not completely concrete and still had some possibility of doubt. I think as the years go on, I like the greys more than black and white sometimes. For example, in the films–Doubt: not knowing if the priest was guilty or not or in Inception: if the top keeps spinning or drops. I kind of enjoy a “sense of an ending” sometimes, but I think the majority does not.

      1. Some things are better left unexplained. For instance, “the astronaut” (the giant dead alien) in the first Alien movie. Or the monsters in Tremors (love that movie — the perfect cheesy film). Subsequent attempts to “explain” them are way less satisfying than leaving them a mystery. Same goes for certain ambiguous endings to movies/books….

      2. Exactly. Although, I remember being particularly irked over the lack of explanation in that crummy move Cube. I somehow got talked into seeing that.

        I think you would enjoy this French series called The Returned. There is no real explanation over the bizarre happenings occurring in the small French town. I plan to weave it into a future post soon.

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