High Life ending explained: Only Monte and his daughter is left on the spacecraft

Robert Pattinson recently played a character who went to space in Mickey 17, but he has also done the same in High Life (2018). However, it wasn't a comedy; it was pure tragedy. In the end, it's Pattinson's character who is left with his daughter, though he doesn't even know she is his daughter in the beginning.

The film was directed by Claire Denise in her English-language directorial debut. She also co-wrote the story with Jean-Pol Fargeau, a longtime collaborator of hers who has worked on films like Chocolat (1988), Beau Travail (1999), and 35 Shots of Rum (2008).

At the end of the movie, Monte (Pattinson) and his daughter Willow (Jessie Ross) decide to take a decision that might get them away from a black hole they are hovering around. After that, both of them walk towards a yellow light that is getting bigger and bigger.

The crew's fate on the spaceship is mirrored in High Life

There's no one left on the spaceship except for Monte and Willow, but where is everyone? The answer is, they are dead. Throughout the film, we see many deaths occurring through various means.

Although it might be for the good, because everyone there was a prisoner. So, sending them to space and making them guinea pigs for an experiment was a punishment. However, there were some good ones too, who were always thinking about a garden there, which reminds them of earth.

In High Life, there is a moment after all the people on the ship are dead and Monte and Willow see another spaceship going somewhere. More like drifting in space. When Monte boards it, he finds dogs, most of them dead, mirroring the fate of what transpired on their ship.

Willow also asks her dad that he bring one dog back. However, he refuses, as they might bring contamination on their ship and end up like everyone else in High Life.

Willow was the only non-prisoner passenger on the ship left in High Life

While Dibs (Juliette Binoche) was one non-prisoner on the ship, as she was the one in control and trying to experiment on the prisoners, Willow was a non-prisoner too. The reason is that she was born on the ship via Boyse (Mia Goth), who is inseminated by Monte's semen by Dibs after she has had her fun with him while he was unconscious.

So Boyse is her mother, who dies of spaghettification after she tries to pilot a shuttle after killing Nansen (Agata Buzek), leading the shuttle to a molecular cloud.

But it only seems fair that Willow ended up with her father at the end, as he was one of the better persons aboard the ship.