{"id":250093,"date":"2021-05-14T23:11:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T20:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-ending-of-the-woman-in-the-window-explained\/"},"modified":"2021-05-14T23:11:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T20:11:46","slug":"the-ending-of-the-woman-in-the-window-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-ending-of-the-woman-in-the-window-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Ending of &#8216;The Woman in the Window&#8217; Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Ending of &#8216;The Woman in the Window&#8217; Explained<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9--><em>Ending Explained is a recurring <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> in which we explore the finales, secrets, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>s of interesting movies and shows, both new and old. This time, we explain the ending of Joe Wright\u2019s new Netflix thriller, The Woman in the Window. It contains spoilers.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Joe Wright<\/strong>\u2019s <\/span><strong><i>The Woman in the Window<\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, based on the 2018 best selling novel of the same name, takes the concept of twists and turns to a whole new level. While the film embraces a number of genre tropes, there is only one real guarantee when sitting down to watch it: you can expect the unexpected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film follows child psychologist Anna Fox (<strong>Amy<\/strong> <strong>Adams<\/strong>), who is intensely agoraphobic, and resultantly refuses to leave her New York City brownstone. Anna rarely sees anyone face-to-face, but when a family moves in across the street, she becomes heavily enmeshed in their personal lives. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She receives a visit from teenage Ethan (<strong>Fred Hechinger<\/strong>), and the two form an unlikely friendship. Then Jane (<strong>Julianne Moore<\/strong>), the woman whom Anna believes to be Ethan\u2019s mother, swings by for a drink and alludes to the fact that her husband Alistair (<strong>Gary Oldman)<\/strong> is abusive. Things get even more complicated when Anna sees someone stab Jane to death through the window, and she\u2019s convinced it was Alistair in an angry spell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being the anxious character she is, no one believes Anna. In fact, the real Jane (<strong>Jennifer Jason Leigh<\/strong>) even shows up at her apartment to assure her that she was imagining the whole thing. Is Anna being gaslit? Was she imagining the whole thing? Or is there a third option?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ding ding ding. The final, epic twist comes right after Anna resolves to commit suicide when the cops remind her that the root of her agoraphobia was actually a traumatic car crash she had since forgotten about that killed her husband and daughter. That, mixed with the guilt of accidentally screwing with her neighbors lives, is simply too much for her to bear. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anna records her suicide note, but before she can proceed she discovers that Ethan has been hiding in her apartment for almost a week. He\u2019s been watching her live, and he wants to watch her die too. Turns out Ethan is a bit obsessed with death, and, wait for it, a serial killer!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He killed \u201cJane\u201d who it turns out was his birth mother because he wasn\u2019t a fan. It wasn\u2019t his first kill, either, as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethan also murdered one of Alistair\u2019s coworkers \u2014 a death that, upon discovery, initially made Anna confident that Alistair had a shady past and was more than capable of killing Jane. Anna isn\u2019t crazy after all, and she isn\u2019t really being gaslit, either. Instead, she just had the wrong suspect in mind. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethan asks if he can watch Anna kill herself, but her self-destructive urge is replaced by her survival instinct, and the two have an epic showdown ending in Ethan taking a long fall to his demise. Even better? It was enough to make Anna go outside for the first time in a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Woman in the Window <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ends with Anna saying goodbye to her brownstone and confidently venturing out into the world beyond her window. She is a completely changed person. She is confident that she\u2019s not crazy, and that she can do a whole lot more good for the world outside of her four walls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To properly understand Anna\u2019s character arc, it is important to first understand agoraphobia and the stigma surrounding it. Agoraphobia is classified as a severe anxiety disorder that stems from a panic disorder, and renders its victims unable to go certain places for fear of having a panic attack \u2013 and, in extreme cases, makes them unable to leave their house. All in all, it affects 1.7% of adults.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scholars have posited that there are many causes of agoraphobia. Some think it is born from a traumatic event \u2013 most likely the death of a parent, or an attack. Others believe it is due to a discomfort with not being attached to secure spaces. Some even go as far as to say that it is evolutionary: that, for survival\u2019s sake, we were once programmed to avoid wide-open spaces, and our brains are always fighting that impulse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When looking at these potential causes, the reality is, whatever leads up to agoraphobia tends to be pretty normal. And yet, characters in the film treat Anna like she is the most abnormal person they have ever met. They continually use her affliction to excuse their own behavior and conveniently get themselves out of sticky situations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take, for instance, the insistence that characters in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Woman in the Window<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have on telling Anna that her medications have been making her hallucinate. The reality is, experiencing hallucinations on the drugs used to treat agoraphobia \u2013 namely SSRIs, Benzodiazepines, and antidepressants \u2013 is extremely rare. The characters\u2019 obsession with anti-anxiety medication causing insanity is nothing short of a convenient scapegoat that has sinister roots in history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the 1800s, physicians finally discovered a \u201cdiagnosis\u201d for depression and anxiety in women, and that was hysteria. Victorian physicians widely believed women were more unstable than men, and were prone to nervous breakdowns. Since then, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> pertaining to women\u2019s mental health issues has become a bit more reasonable. Still, a woman exhibiting signs of depression or anxiety can often still be cast off as \u201ccrazy\u201d or even \u201chysterical.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acknowledging this stigma is pivotal to understanding the end of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Woman in the Window<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. If it weren\u2019t for the stigma surrounding mental health, particularly in women, Ethan likely would have been caught much earlier. And Anna wouldn\u2019t have had to take things into her own hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But she does take things into her own hands in the end, and she becomes a much stronger person for it. For a majority of the film, Anna remains stagnant due to her craving for forgiveness. She wants to be forgiven for inadvertently causing the death of her daughter and husband, and, most importantly, she needs to forgive herself for the struggles that have impaired her ability to live a fulfilling life \u2013 even if those struggles are out of her hands. But, when she is forced to confront what happened to her family, as well as the fact that she\u2019s not actually crazy, she is finally able to push herself out into the world and fight for her life. She realizes that no one was truly going to be able to sympathize with her ailments, for better or for worse, and that gave her a sense of newfound freedom. She ultimately learns that it is important to stand up for and advocate for yourself, even when everyone doubts you. And hey, you may just end up solving a complex crime along the way.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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