I think "Let's leave it up to the audience" is usually a cop-out where endings are concerned.
Now, yes, I am not a published author, a professional screenwriter, or a scholar of literature, to be sure. But.
I believe in most cases, the ambiguous ending isn't something you reach for if you already had a really great ending in mind.
@maxleibman I haaate those. Real life gives us enough ambiguity. We turn to entertainment for the rare catharsis of closure. No, I don’t want to “use my imagination”— that thing that mostly makes me miserable and confused?— when I specifically paid my time and emotional energy for YOURS. I’ll often re-write unsatisfying endings in my head, anyway, but lack of any resolution, unless I was knowingly seeking out such an experience, will generally make me regret I ever got invested.
