Who do you think escaped in the end? My own theory is Husband 1, Wife 2.

@Norsk said:

Who do you think escaped in the end? My own theory is Husband 1, Wife 2.

I think there is no doubt or theory about it and it's clearly shown in movie - original husband escaped accidentally with fake wife, which he realized later when she had stupid questions to things she should know the answers.

@Markoff said:

...the fake one in the end or he will return back to the real one who fell in love with fake one and stayed there with him or their marriage is FUBAR?

I am glad at least one real person got out and the other stayed there voluntarily trapped

btw. if another couple will come they will arrive in other reality indepenent on this or the current couple at weekend house will stop exist?

I disagree.

Take your view a bit further (that S2 left), then what is the film teaching us? Basically that all was in vain. His final speech is pointless. Their realizations during the film lost. That despite E2 being a selfish dick, S1 still wanted him. It shows us that E1 ends up with a girl he does not know. A girl that doesn't want him. A girl even we the viewers have no real idea about. The final sweet scene in the bed becomes even more sad, because it is then shrouded in deceit...perhaps all this was the intention of the movie, but I doubt it.

It is commonly misunderstood that S1 fell for E2. S1 never fell for who E2 actually was. He was constantly playing his part of a better and improved Ethan until the very end. S1 fell for E1 – or rather how she dreamed E1 would or could be. Even when she succumbs hard to E2’s charm it is when he tells her those longing words about how and why E1 was unfaithful back in the day. And S1 knew E2 was not E1 at this time and yet this is what really swept her feet. What finally won her was a story about and emotions connected entirely to E1. She made love with E2 two times and both times were because of E1: The first time she simply believed it was her old chubby and was none the wiser of the whole setup. The second time is when E2 gives her those longing beautiful words associated to E1. S1 was in fact all the time smitten by Ethan, perhaps not his latest ways, but always for the hope or dream she had of him... and never this other guy, whoever he was.

And also ask yourself what motivated S2 ?

Well, the movie is not very clear on this except she seemed hell-bent on E2 despite all his crap. And S2 is the only one who knows who and what E2 really is. She specifically says that she does not want to leave E2 or see another take him away. All her actions until the very end supports this mission. Nothing in the movie showed us any interest or affection towards E1.

Ultimately her motivation was NEVER to take over S1’s life and be with E1 for the rest of her life living it out as a fake. Which the movie then would imply! It simply goes against the S2 we are presented for. She is a no-nonsense kind of gal.

... Okay, now let’s add the bacon ending... and this obviously confuses everything. Who is this loving S we experience in the epilogue?

IMO this movie only has one loving S and that was S1. A better ending to manifest that the “wrong S” had escaped would be to let her go down for breakfast and he would just hear the front door slamming....

So the way I see it is: The bacon scene tells us that S1 didn't want to change him anymore and that she accepted who he was or rather who he had become. They were now in sync, like a piano (the metaphor specifically used by Sam Malone).

Also, why would S2 at all be flirted by the story in the end like that...

• she was no longer needed to act.

• she was no longer required to be fake.

• she could be who she actually was.

... And yet she completely “acted" like S1 for no good reason – other than of course if she in fact was S1.

@HAL 9010' said:

@Markoff said:

...the fake one in the end or he will return back to the real one who fell in love with fake one and stayed there with him or their marriage is FUBAR?

I am glad at least one real person got out and the other stayed there voluntarily trapped

btw. if another couple will come they will arrive in other reality indepenent on this or the current couple at weekend house will stop exist?

I disagree.

Take your view a bit further (that S2 left), then what is the film teaching us? Basically that all was in vain. His final speech is pointless. Their realizations during the film lost. That despite E2 being a selfish dick, S1 still wanted him. It shows us that E1 ends up with a girl he does not know. A girl that doesn't want him. A girl even we the viewers have no real idea about. The final sweet scene in the bed becomes even more sad, because it is then shrouded in deceit...perhaps all this was the intention of the movie, but I doubt it.

I think thats the point, that is the intention of the movie. Sad, deceit, that the final speech was pointless, etc.