The film ends with another ‘accident’ – a car ramming into a tree – and then the camera pans up and zooms in on another camera. So the last shot of the movie is of two cameras photographing each other.
Yeah. That accident a lot of people won’t like it. Richard Schickel, the movie critic at Life, said he liked the movie but not the ending. Then a couple of days later, he told me he’d thought it over and the ending made sense. See, the ending runs against what you want to happen. Accidents always do. When you’re prepared for some horrible situation it never happens. And then just when you’re walking away, bang! You slip on a step and break your ass. And accidents can also happen like that, right in the middle of everything, on a large scale, on a world scale. And then that final shot showing the other camera. During that shot, you hear the chant ‘the whole world is watching.’ But watching what? Perhaps it’s cameras watching other cameras. Perhaps TV was not showing what happened, but showing what happened on TV.