Need explanation of the ending of Curse of the Golden Flower (Warning:Spoilers)

[Jay Chou 7267]

SPOILERS INCLUDED:

juz watched curse of the golden flower a few days ago. dun understand sum parts of it. at the ending, why when jais mom throw the medicine into the air and it landed onto something golden, that object eroded? and after taht what happened to Jai's mom? merry xmas XD:-)

[petricia]

juz watched curse of the golden flower a few days ago. dun understand sum parts of it. at the ending, why when jais mom throw the medicine into the air and it landed onto something golden, that object eroded? and after taht what happened to Jai's mom? merry xmas XD:-)

My point of view of the ending:

After the death of her son, I guess she was just too distressed to listen to the king's orders again. (remember how she always drank the medicine, although she knew that it was poison throughout the show?) And after all, her son died and also she had nothing to lose. The erosion probably meant that, instead of the slow poison that the king always fed her, the king wanted to kill her immediately this time round and gave her something lethal. What happen to the Queen is up for everyone to guess. There is no explicit explanation but my guess is that she was killed by the King.

I hope that helps.

[kliu117]

Oh, yeah. I was wondering how did Prince Jai die at the end, he was there with his mom and then he pulled the sword and something happened and he died. Someone please explain

[xx0lovalauraxx]

Oh, yeah. I was wondering how did Prince Jai die at the end, he was there with his mom and then he pulled the sword and something happened and he died. Someone please explain

Oh, Prince Jai actually committed suicide because he didn't succeed the rebellion his mom always wanted.

[midori]

hmm you know how the father was explain how the table symbolizes unity, yingyang, and etc. what i got from the movie was that jay commits suicide because he failed to rebel against his father, and now since the empress lost everything, she refused to take the medicine, and the erosion on the center of the table means erosion of unity and their family, etc.

kind of funny how the king is the only one alive though.
reminds me of hamlet and king lear. lol.

[petricia]

Oh, yeah. I was wondering how did Prince Jai die at the end, he was there with his mom and then he pulled the sword and something happened and he died. Someone please explain

He pulled the sword and severed the artery of his neck. Basically, he died by killing himself.

[Hokagesama]

My point of view of the ending:
After the death of her son, I guess she was just too distressed to listen to the king's orders again. (remember how she always drank the medicine, although she knew that it was poison throughout the show?) And after all, her son died and also she had nothing to lose. The erosion probably meant that, instead of the slow poison that the king always fed her, the king wanted to kill her immediately this time round and gave her something lethal. What happen to the Queen is up for everyone to guess. There is no explicit explanation but my guess is that she was killed by the King.
I hope that helps.
hmm you know how the father was explain how the table symbolizes unity, yingyang, and etc. what i got from the movie was that jay commits suicide because he failed to rebel against his father, and now since the empress lost everything, she refused to take the medicine, and the erosion on the center of the table means erosion of unity and their family, etc.

kind of funny how the king is the only one alive though.
reminds me of hamlet and king lear. lol.


Well I quite agree with these two. I think these two are the meaning of the movie. And also I guess Jie commit suicide becase he don't want to fight his father. Remember how he lost to his father in the beginning? That's why. Maybe he thought he will lose liao. And remember what the king told him? He said a sentence with deep meaning to his son: "Wo bu gei de, ni bu neng qiang" meaning what I don't give, you can't grab for it.

The king never thought of giving the throne to Jie, instead he meant it for the Crown Prince. So Jie had did something terribly wrong and failed it: rebel against his father to take his throne.

As in how the king know the rebellion, one can go replay the movie. If I am not wrong, before the Crown Prince died, he said "Bing bian" which bing means soldier, bian means change. So the king guess there is something wrong going on in the army. Can't tell much. But I like the movie very much XD

[weiwei428]

This is what I think:

Jay committed sucide because of several reasons. 1) the fact that he had failed his mother with the unsuccessful attack. 2) the King gave him a choice between his own death or the death of his mother. Obviously, Jay is not willing to slowly kill his own mother by personally feeding her the medicine, he chose death.

If Jay were to agree to feed his mother the medicine, then the Queen would have died on the spot because that time, the "medicine" is actually real poison. Also the idea of unity is destroyed when the "medicine" eroded the table (as some ppl already mentioned before). The royal family is destroyed.

Another thing to point out: the king actually said he would have given the throne to Jay after the festival (because he knew about the affair between the eldest prince and the Queen) but after the unsuccessful attack, all Jay get is a death penalty. Basically, the Queen's plan to get the throne is unnecessary and foolish. All she had to do was wait =_=.

But i guess that still makes Jay the hero of the movie - he killed because of his love for his mother and not the greed for the throne / power

This movie is a great tragedy.

[yenny1106]

Wow! Thanks guys for the deep interpretation. I didn't read so much into the movie, but after reading all your posts, I realise this movie is really not bad. one word - it's really a tragedy.

[tenshi_dew]

Here's my take on the ending: COTGF has an abstract, open-ended ending where different people will interpret in different ways. I thought after Jay suicided, the Queen was so distressed that she threw her cup of medicine as an act of anger/sadness. I thought that the medicine eroding on that emblem thing represented the decay of the royal family, not that the king had given her poison. But that's just how I interpretated the ending.

But I asked my mum about the ending, and she said that after Jay died, the king continues to give the queen the poison, and because she's so heartbroken that she has lost everything, she just accepts it.

[Jay Chou 7267]

ty for all the info. everyone should watch the movie. really rawks.