Monolith (2022) Movie Ending Explained (Spoiler Warning!)

The film seemed to be building towards something profound and interesting, but the ending seemed rushed and was ultimately underwhelming and disappointing. It made me feel like I'd wasted my time.

The most unrealistic part is a journalist not fact checking destroys her reputation and they have consequences

Absolute shite,did not understand this film one bit or what is was trying to say. Very slow over long and tedious to watch with no action. Apart from one person , the journalist there is no one else in the film everyone is a telephone call or scanned voice which just gets boring after ten minutes and the actress playing the journalist is so bad at acting you just want to slap her or turn the film off as she becomes so annoying and the story more confusing. I didn't care what was happening or what befell the main character which is the worst criticism a film could provoke. A waste of two hours of my life I will never get back. It's no good fast forwarding to the end twist as this explains nothing and just confuses one even more. This movie is so bad I thought it was a M. Night Shyamlan abortion you have been warned.

The ending sucks if seen as sci-fi. If they went the alien/sci-fi direction, disposing the body after the fight already proves the alien won since the original would keep the body of a perfect alien clone as proof. Also, it would've been better if after the fight, it would become clear there is no corpse when the winner looks back after standing up (so no disposing of bodies but proof that the fight was in the mind). Perhaps the brick emits sound waves altering the brain of the original, slowly creating an alien new personality that will try to gain control at the end, thus becoming an alien invasion through the mind. It would also explain why the 'grandfather' mentioned in one of the interviews became 'soulless'. Because it would be quite unbelievable that an old man that does not live alone, nor in a neighbourless mansion like the mc could get rid of a dead body.

I’m glad that on a whim, I looked up this commentary before investing time in viewing Monolith

It was a bad movie. Thanks ai voice 😂

The turtle eating the strawberries at the end of the film is the most important clue. The "interviewer" was the evil changeling all along, which is why the turtle wouldn't eat the food the interviewer was giving it throughout the film. But after the original interviewer came back (as the black brick) and slew the changeling, the turtle eagerly ate the strawberries that the original human interviewer fed him at the end of the movie. The ending of this movie is actually a happy ending because the original, human version of the interviewer is now going to get the word out about the changelings.

The person we're following throughout the film is the doppelganger who replaced the original person on her ninth birthday. The original interviewer was somehow transformed into the black brick and her life/identity was taken over by a mirror-image changeling when she turned nine years old. This would explain her subsequent, uncharacteristic bad behavior when she vandalized her parents' furniture and then pinned the blame onto the parents' maid's daughter. She also appears to be an ethically challenged journalist in her adult life.

All the people who encounter the black bricks seem to be morally compromised in some fashion. The doppelgangers get amnesia about their past and origins, but they slowly begin to remember their bad deeds if the original person they replaced comes back as one of the black bricks. This movie is like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" in reverse. The "sinister" black bricks are actually the good guys reclaiming their lives and identities.

The final clash certainly concerns the consciousness of the protagonist, if we really want to watch the film from the top of the alien invasion and understand who between the two survived it is clear that the alien survived !! The duplicate scene that destroys the recorder very facilitates demonstrates great strength has not been random so in the clash by the lake the protagonist had no possibility to survive, then in my opinion the film uses the alien expedient but it is all 'Other the message he wants to transmit !!

At the end was the survivor our protagonist or the replicate from the black brick? Thanks, for the great review.

This movie confused the heck out of me but overall I still really liked it. I may be biased since I have a slight interest in journalism so the character digging up clues and facts for a story kept me interested….I just couldn’t tell you what the story was 😂

TL;DR - Stay away from bricks.

This whole video is just an explanation of the plot, not a review, and nothing is explained. 😮‍💨

Movie made absolutely no sense at all. I feel like something important was missing. Crazy

Metaphor for guilt? There was another man, the grandfather of an interviewee, whose brick disappeared-it could be that he also destroyed his guilt in an attempt to hide/avoid it, then he was replaced with the self that was created from the guilt, the brick.