The Ending Of Bodies Bodies Bodies Explained: After making its global premiere at SXSW in March, A24 is releasing its latest horror thriller, Bodies Bodies Bodies. It’s a crazy slasher whodunit for the modern audience, and it follows a group of seven pals who are stuck in a luxurious estate when a cyclone hits.
Later, they decide to play a game together, and it involves plenty of bodies. Like the traditional party game Werewolf, in which everyone must work together to identify a murderer amid the group, this is a variation of that theme. A killer who “kills” by tapping victims on the back.
If a body is found, players must yell out the game’s name and then vote on who they think it is. Seems like a no-brainer to you as well. It’s completely wrong. Despite first appearances, this party is full of surprises that will have guests at each others’ throats and with nowhere to go except into a bloody stalemate.
It’s possible the pals won’t make it through the night of rising paranoia and violence after they learn that someone has died. The movie takes a lot of pride in mocking itself and its young protagonists. It pokes holes in their carefully cultivated narratives in both a literal and figurative sense, exposing their pretenses.
Regarding the nature of the threat to the buddies and the identities of the various characters, nothing is as it seems in this film. If you haven’t seen the film yet but are interested in discussing everything from the film’s dramatic opening to its gruesome ending, be sure to bookmark this article so you can read about it after you’ve seen the film.
Our first order of business is to lay out a basic roster of all the major players. Sophie (Amandla Sternberg) and Bee are the protagonists, a new couple who are the show’s primary emphasis (Maria Bakalova). Both of them walk in at the very end, which catches everyone by surprise.
Since Sophie had been in rehab recently, she had no idea they were coming. David (Pete Davidson), a spoiled rich child, is irritated when they show up at his lavish estate. However, the remainder of their group arrives quickly to welcome them.
Everyone, from the shy Emma (Chase Sui Wonders) to the perceptive Jordan (Myha’la Herrold) to the obnoxious Alice (Rachel Sennott), appears a little unsure about their presence, though they nevertheless mainly play nice with one another.
Only Max, who we haven’t seen and who presumably fled in a rage, isn’t here, but he’ll be discussed in a little. Greg (Lee Pace), a mysterious older man that Alice met on Tinder, is the second oddball of note. As the game progresses, he and David eventually clash. Both parties settle things peacefully by going their ways. Until, of course, David takes the first fatal hit.
When he is found outside with his neck cut, things start to go wrong. They immediately suspect Greg of being the culprit and set out to question him about it. He initially appears confused by the charge, but quickly becomes combative in his defence.
Because of this, Bee kills him by striking him over the head with a heavy object. The remaining characters start to die off as they wonder if they were right. It is believed that Emma was shoved to her death from the top of the stairs. They (Jordan, Alice, and Sophie) then turn their suspicions on Bee, who they think is concealing her true identity.
While they are mostly wrong, they are not completely off base, as she has been dishonest about both her current employment and her educational attainment. Even yet, they abandon her in the pouring rain. She finds out that Jordan has a concealed gun while they are outside.
Because of this revelation, a fight breaks out, and Alice is shot several times before she finally succumbs to her wounds. The two then go over to Jordan, who is alone, with Sophie and Bee. There was a fight, and she fell from the balcony, where she later died.
Only Sophie and Bee remain, but Bee has suspicions that Sophie is cheating on her. An argument breaks out over a phone near the pool as people try to figure out who is telling the truth. Something they find there explains everything that led to the killing and mayhem that occurred that night.
David’s phone is smeared with muck, but it still works. A TikTok video he attempted to record of himself cutting the cork from a bottle of liquor keeps looping. Clearly, he was trying to imitate Greg, who begins drunkenly cutting towards himself as soon as the other man does the move.
As predicted, he slits his own throat and staggered off-screen. An accidental self-inflicted injury, not a murder, started this whole mess. Sophie and Bee sit in stunned silence at the sight of a fresh face. Max (Conner O’Malley) himself returns to investigate the destruction that has occurred in his absence.
It’s a great last sentence since it explains that the film’s disarray was for the sake of the joke the whole time. In a way that is both humorous and scathing. There wasn’t a masked serial killer responsible for picking down the friends one by one.
The more macabre and ironic truth is that it was the buddies themselves who started it all. The fuel for the fear that ultimately destroyed them came from within, as faction fighting fueled the conflict. Both accidental and intentional deaths occurred as a result of their internalized fear.
It’s a great punchline because you can rewatch it and get something new out of it each time. The long-simmering anger that caused the initial conflict between the pals was ultimately their undoing. This discovery is very critical of the different societal factors that shaped them, especially for the generation who grew up in the digital age.
The night’s conflicts are more raw and authentic because they finally air out the underlying dysfunction that had been kept silent. This is a horror comedy at heart, but the source material provides an explosive conclusion that is as funny as it is illuminating.
The experience of the finale is rooted in the revelation of the various ways in which the characters are vulnerable or having difficulty. This has a lot to do with their social status since it demonstrates how their privileged and wealthy backgrounds distorted their perceptions of the world.
Bee was no exception to being swept up in the confusion, but it stands out that she is the only one who was able to see clearly enough to figure out what was going on. It’s ironic and lyrical that it arrives too late, when practically everyone is already dead. The movie’s entire premise is a joke, and the closing scene serves as a crystallization of all the film’s silliness.
