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Freezer
Since: Jan, 2001
15th Mar, 2017 12:37:37 AM
My name is Freezer and my anti-drug is porn.
A lot of my favorite films have a coda in the final or penultimate scene: a little speech or visual that illustrates what the movie was about.
Examples:
Angier's speech at the end of The Prestige. NOT The Summation, the part after that:
> You never understood... why we did this? The audience knows the truth - the world is simple... and miserable... solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder. And then you... then you got to see something very special. You really don't know? It was... it was the look on their faces.
Or the tears in rain speech from Blade Runner.
A non-dialog example: the ending of Boogie Nights. We are shown scenes of how all the characters ended up, how they found love, fixed their destructive habits, and in general moved on with their lives. Then we go back to Dirk Digglar, who hasn't learned or grown and is still literally just thinking about his dick.
This isn't quite The Summation, since it's not about explaining the literal sequence of events; nor is it exactly a Motive Rant, since it's not always about a specific character. I know there are tons of movies with examples, but I can't seem to find the exact trope that describes this.