How Did White Lotus End?

How Did White Lotus End? You have not yet decided whether the end of the HBO series The White LotusIt is a tragic ending or not. Normal. Let us help you make a decision. To do this, we suggest that you take a look at a seemingly bland scene from the end of episode 5 that is actually the one that sums up the underlying theme of the series: wealth, struggle, and class consciousness in which the rich and powerful always get away with it, in which they go like elephants through a castanet shop (they are the ones who can do something to change things and, nevertheless, perpetuate them).

What The White Lotus Is About?

“The White Lotus” follows a group of characters as they arrive at a vacation resort in Maui, Hawaii, where they are greeted by staff members prepared to make all their wishes come true. And, in some cases, also his nightmares. We meet the Mossbacher family, made up of successful businesswoman Nicole ( Connie Britton ), her husband Mark who is obsessed with the idea that he has cancer, their son Quinn ( Fred Hechinger ) who is a porn addict, and their daughter Olivia. ( Sydney Sweeney ) who only wants to oppose her parents in everything, for which she has the help of her college friend Paula ( Brittany O’Grady ). Joining them is a newly married couple, the very wealthy and demanding Shane (Jake Lacy ), and the humble and insecure Rachel ( Alexandra Daddario ). Rounding out the customer cast is the devastated Tanya ( Jennifer Coolidge ), who wanders through the hotel with her late mother’s ashes trying to find the courage to throw them into the sea, as she had planned.

How Did White Lotus End?

Armond (Murray Bartlett) and Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) are sitting at a table in the hotel’s main restaurant. There are few customers left. Belinda has just been abandoned and Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge), who has clearly played with her, is not going to invest in her business; he knows it and he doesn’t know it. Armond has had another crazy day in which the Mossbacher family has been robbed. “It was a very difficult day,” Mark says. Armond and Belinda are leaning back in their wicker chairs. There are now few customers dining, none of them from the main characters. At this very moment, all around him who are part of the establishment have been successful: the theft has united the Mossbachers family and, above all, has unlocked the Mossbacher marriage relationship; Tanya has found her new love, who does not judge her even though she is like Machín’s maracas; Shane has gotten his pineapple room (although he does not know the one that comes over him), it could even be said that Rachel, who is straddling each other at that moment, has made the right decision (although later she makes a mistake when returning with her husband) … And there are Armond and Belinda in the center, contemplating it all.

“Sometimes when I see them having dinner every night it makes me want to gouge my eyes out,” says Armond. Belinda laughs, recognizing herself in Armond’s attitude, but still not giving vent to her contempt, first because she is with the boss and second because she still hopes to make the leap to the other side. “Lottery. Abominable is the dark firmament that folds over the dark sea. Death is the end of life. Ahhhhh. Why does life have to work?”, Continues Armond. It seems like an unimportant scene, but it tells us so many things about Armond: it is the moment when it becomes clear to us that he wants more, but much more from life; It is also clear to us that he has been defeated, not so much because he lost, or because he does not follow his dreams, or because he is the tail of a mouse or even the head of a rodent, but because he has thrown in the towel because he has been satisfied to serve the lotus-eaters. The white man may have stolen the land from the natives, but the white man has also stolen Armond’s dignity. So now ask yourself: is her absurd post-defecation death a tragedy or a liberation? Armond’s reassurance that he will no longer have to deal with lotus-eaters while he dies speaks volumes. He is not a dying man who suffers, but one who embraces death. Seen like this it is not a tragedy; it is a liberation. However, death for him is the end of life. And what is Armond’s life? A life of servitude. Seen like this it is clearly a tragedy. It is a very Woody Allen death, in which the knife at the end has an innocent edge (I say because if not, It is not understood how it is possible that Shane is released so soon and does not end up in the police station) and Armond is collateral damage from a way of life he despises. In the end, if you notice, the dead man was the only character of all who did not have the last name; all the characters have one, except for him, who is simply Armond.

The Armond defecating on Shane’s clothes and the knife that goes through the lung by surprise I don’t think they have much to explain. To the question of whether Bartlett defecates or the feces from the hotel room scene are special effects, the question offends. It’s the same answer as for Steve Zahn’s penis: no, it’s not actor Murray Bartlett’s feces, although I suppose this will sadden the dungs. It is pure and simple CGI although to shoot the scene what in the Top Secret film would be denominated “like a joke turd” was used. And no, Bartlett did not know that the scene was going to appear in the final cut because it had been left out, although the showrunner, Mike White, decided to put it in at the last minute, without warning him.

But let’s go back to the scene from the penultimate episode. “The Lotus Eaters” is not a random quote, it is a quote from a Tennyson poem and also a reference to Homer. Because lotus-eaters also appear in Homer’s Odyssey. The fruits and flowers of the lotus were a narcotic and the lotus-eaters slept in peaceful apathy, referring to the WASP who always get their way. Even Shane gets Rachel to go through the hoop in the end, so Armond’s death, in the end, unites them, with gum, but unites them! So the reference of why you have to work and the apathy of the lotus-eaters is not yours, but it represents you. “Hateful is the dark-blue sky, / Vaulted o’er the dark-blue sea./Death is the end of life; ah, why / Should life all labor be?”, The poem reads in its original English version (the translation is the one recited by Bartlett). That Armond knows the poem and recites it shows that he wants something more. In the scripts, the backstory of Armond, who wanted to be an actor and ended up as a hotel manager, was left without being shot. After taking his revenge on Shane, after doing number two in his travel bag, his only way out, the only thing left for him to live, was death.

The End Of The White Lotus: What Happened To Shane

The closing of this show is truly epic, although perhaps a little unfair. From the beginning, the war between Armand and Shane Patton ( Jake Lacy ), who is on his honeymoon with his wife Rachel ( Alexandra Daddario ) is a fact. And it all starts with the most impressive hotel suite in Hawaii. Shane notices that this room they were given is not the exotic suite his mother had reserved for him to spend their “dream moon.” Armand admits the mistake to himself, but while apologizing to the young couple, he admits that they won’t be able to upgrade to the famous Pinneaple Suite.

That’s enough for Shane to start getting “in-between” what the hotel manager does. And so it will be. He will not rest until Armand gives him that room, originally occupied by a German couple. The truth is that the battle ends badly. In the final episode and after the robbery of the Mossbacker family, Armand throws in the towel and fed up with the persecution of Shane admits that at any moment they are going to fire him. So his last hours at the White Lotus decide to spend them in a crazy way and pure fun. Although it is in just a second that it occurs to him to take revenge.

Climb up to the Pinneaple Suite, now owned by the Pattons, to confront Shane in the least thoughtful way. In a truly unexpected twist, Armand decides to defecate in his suitcase in a scene remarkably constructed by White and played by Bartlett. This definitely seems to be Armand’s victory, but in the blink of an eye, in an episode between comic and tragic Armand is stabbed to death by Shane himself who surprises him in the room.

At the time, it stands to reason that all viewers thought this was the end of Shane as well. He will go to jail, Rachel will separate from him, and his rich kid whims will be over. But not. In the later scenes, it is shown that the only contact Shane has with the police is just a handshake. He looks at them dejectedly, as if thanking the support he received from them. There is no questioning, no lawyers, no prison.

Armond’s Death Was Necessary

Armond, the character of Murray Bartlett, has a long history throughout fiction. What begins as a professional who is especially attentive to every detail and almost completely disposed to his guests, ends with a totally unhinged person. His continuous scuffle with Shane (Jake Lacy) leads him to make extreme decisions increasingly distant from the person we met at the beginning and, paradoxically, he ends up dying in that hotel that has taken his life little by little and at the hands of one of the guilty of it being so. “His death was designed from the beginning,” he says. White, “It had to be this way. Armond has the best scene of his life with one last act of defiance and there I was like, ‘There’s really nowhere else to go from here,’ so it was the right ending for him. “

That last act of defiance that White talks about ends up being one of the most shocking scenes in fiction, if not the most. After creating a growing hatred for Shane, Armond walks into his room and decides that his way to get revenge on this rich man is to literally shit on his suitcase. Despite the fact that they did it with CGI, the creator comments that he and his team wondered if they wanted all the action to be seen or if it would be too grotesque for the viewer: “We have to make it look real,” he concluded, “So we went through a long process to get the perfect shot. ” The end result is an epic and explicit scene that we will not be able to forget, at least for a while.

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