The first of which was adapting Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man (alongside David Scearce) and then seven years later, he brought Austin Wright’s novel Tony and Susan to the big screen adapting it to become Nocturnal Animals. When he’s not maintaining his level of excellence with his label and being a fashion designer, from time to time he sits down and adapts and directs his film projects. As Susan continues to read the story, she finds herself recalling her marriage with Edward and confronting some dark truths about herself. He sends her the manuscript in order to get her opinion on the material and as she reads the manuscript, we see how the material unfolds before us as we follow the story visually of a man whose family vacation turns violent and deadly. Nocturnal Animals is a film that has us following a woman named Susan, who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband Edward, whom she left twenty years ago, and is titled ‘Nocturnal Animals’, a nickname he once had for her. Nocturnal Animals is available to stream on Lionsgate+ and rent on Prime Video and Apple TV+.A wealthy art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband’s novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale. So perhaps one day they meet again, after all. After being stood up by Edward, Susan writes a note of criticism about the book which she throws away, and she then writes a kinder one that she sends, saying she would like to tell him her thoughts in person – if he would like to hear them. In Austin Wright's original novel Tony and Susan, which the movie is based on, there is one final addition to the story. So is it possible the former spouses ever meet again? In Edward's novel, Tony gets no satisfaction from Ray's death, as he will never be able to get back his family, so he really has nothing left to live for now his vengeance is over.Įqually, Edward himself is no better off – he may have exacted revenge on Susan but the obsession with their past relationship that has fuelled his novel means he is still haunted by those ghosts, despite having completed his book. There are no real winners in the story, however. He wants Susan to feel lonely and abandoned, as he did 20 years ago when she walked away from him and married Hutton. Writing it is his way of exacting revenge – as is his decision not to turn up to the restaurant. Edward's novel is about Tony seeking revenge on the men who killed his family, and there are hints in the 'real life' parts of the movie that this is a pertinent theme too.Īt one point, Susan sees a piece of art in her gallery that she doesn't remember, that spells out the word 'Revenge' (which is kind of a big clue), and when she first receives Edward's manuscript, she gets a paper cut from it – an indication that the book is meant to hurt her.Įdward's book is about a man's family – his wife and child – being taken away from him, as Susan takes herself and their unborn baby away from him in real life. To answer that question you need to consider that one of the main themes of the movie is revenge. So why doesn't Edward meet Susan in the restaurant at the end of the movie? Universal Nocturnal Animals ending: what does it mean? In the movie's final scene, Susan waits alone in the restaurant for hours, but Edward never shows up. She gets ready – taking off her wedding ring – and goes to a restaurant to meet him. Shocked by the ending of the novel, Susan replies to Edward's email that asks her to suggest a time and place where they can meet while he is in Los Angeles. He rolls onto the gun, accidentally causing it to go off, and he dies. He fires his gun in the air – presumably to let Andes know where he is – and then falls to the ground. Stumbling around, he realises Ray has died during the night of his wound, so an emotionless Tony takes his gun and staggers out of the shack. He wakes up a few hours later, unable to see. Ray calls him weak and Tony fires the gun, shooting him in the chest, but Ray manages to hit Tony in the face with a fire poker, causing him to collapse to the ground. Tony tracks Ray down to the shack where his wife and daughter were killed and confronts him with a gun. The pair abduct Ray and Lou, but while Lou is shot dead when he attempts to flee, Ray manages to escape. In the story, one of the three men who abducted and murdered Laura and India has been killed in a robbery, but two – Ray and Lou – have yet to face justice for their crime.ĭetective Andes reveals he is dying of cancer, and his wish is to bring the case to an end, outside of the law, if Tony agrees. Universal Nocturnal Animals ending explained: What happens to Edward and Susan?
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