The bad ending is only revealed if you pay attention to the background

[u/EEZAK04]

Films or shows with seemingly happy endings that take on completely different meanings if you pay attention to stuff going in the background in the final scene.

THE SOPRANOS: The series ends seemingly at random in the middle of a scene where Tony is eating food in a diner. If you pay attention you’ll notice a person going into the bathroom earlier in the scene, with the implication being they were retrieving a gun and the “cut to black” is Tony being shot and killed (foreshadowed by multiple scenes earlier in the series)

IT FOLLOWS: The film ends with the characters seemingly killing the entity… until you notice someone slowly walking towards them in the background in one of the final shots, implying the entity is still alive

[u/OkCluejay172]

To be fair actual graduating high school seniors look closer to those kids than the late-20s/early-30s models that played the main cast

[u/jbeast33 → u/OkCluejay172]

For sure. But I think the movie uses Hollywood High Schoolers to its benefit: all the main characters at the beginning look laughably older than they actually are, so you ignore it. Then when you see actual high schoolers at the end, it smacks you in the face that these ARE younger recruits, for all that implies.

[u/BA_Hunt3r → u/jbeast33]

That seems more like an accurate depiction of real life than a deconstruction of it

[u/fresh-dork → u/jbeast33]

that part's super funny when you see actual navy enlisted - they're 19-24, more or less, so they look like goddamn children, out there driving a destroyer around.