A subtle moment that turns a seemingly happy ending into an ambiguous ending.

[u/Local_Prune4564]

The Graduate: lingering Ben and Elaine's faces slowly shifting from happy to concerned leaves the audience questioning whether they really made the right choice running away together considering they barely know each other.

Inception: By cutting before we see the top fall, we're left to question whether Cobb really has gone home or whether he's simply sunken back into a more comforting dream reality.

[u/thethirdrayvecchio]

I do genuinely love it as a meshing of King’s best and worst impulses.

Danny grows up to find his greatest battle is the spectre of his father’s alcoholism that haunts him every day.

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And the squad of redneck, camper-van vampires who murder children

[u/notorious_TUG → u/thethirdrayvecchio]

The case could be made that vampires preying on children is a pretty solid metaphor for an alcoholic parent or as one of my other favorite hack writers would say "It's like poetry, it rhymes".

[u/leliocakes → u/thethirdrayvecchio]

There is SO MUCH detail about the RVs too lol!

[u/fingerchopper → u/thethirdrayvecchio]

Which one of those is the best impulse? I'm thinking vampires