Understanding the end of YellowBrickRoad

The critics gave YellowBrickRoad some pretty bad ratings, but I have to say I enjoyed it quite a bit. However, the end bothers me to no end -- I just don't understand it.

Is it that the main character was stuck in the 1940's? Or is everything just happening in his mind?

Best Answer

Its left deliberately vague but I did not get the sense that it was either all in his head or that he was stuck in the 1940s, but rather that it was a supernatural phenomenon where each person's fate depended on their personality and character.

The closest to a definitive answer that I could find is from an interview with the film-makers:

We purposely left the ending open for interpretation because this movie is about the journey- where our characters end up at the end of YellowBrickRoad is dependent on their fears and motivations. Every character ends up with a different fate because of who they are.

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What happens at end of yellow brick road?

Only Teddy (Michael Laurino) makes it to the end of the road. All others are killed. At the end there is a movie theater where the ghostly townsfolk watch the souls who have died on the road living in an apocalyptic wasteland. Teddy is stuck there watching the film with them for all eternity.

Is yellow brick road a true story?

The yellow brick road is a fictional element in the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by American author L. Frank Baum. The road also appears in the several sequel Oz books such as The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) and The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913).

What happened in Friar New Hampshire?

In 1940 the entire town of Friar, 572 people, abandoned their town and walked into the wilderness with only the clothes on their backs after a viewing of The Wizard of Oz, a film with which the entire town was obsessed. No one has ever been able to explain why they did this.

Where was the yellow brick road filmed?

It was virtually all shot in New Hampshire with a crew of about 40 people.

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