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Yorgos Lanthimos recently gave us the remake of the hit Korean film called Save the Green Planet (2003), Bugonia, with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons playing the lead characters, Michelle Fuller and Teddy Gatz, respectively. They are accompanied by Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone, and more in this black comedy.
Again, the director, known for his absurdist themes, came up with an ending that shocked the viewers. However, it didn't fiddle with the original ending fans saw in 2003, and there is a reason for that, which the film's screenwriter Will Tracy explained to ScreenRant in a recent interview, saying that:
"What we see in the last few minutes of this movie has not happened, and it allows us to look at a world without us in it while also getting to see a little panoply of the human experience and everything that makes us weird and interesting and funny and occasionally awful and occasionally wonderful. We realize what would be missing without us for good and for ill. And there's something constructive about that. It's asking, "What do we want? How do we want to relate to each other? How do we want to relate to the planet that we live on?""
Bugonia was released in October 2025, and similar to the original film, it is currently sitting fresh with an 87% score on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The Korean film has an 88% score there.
What happens at the end of Bugonia?
The film focuses on two individuals, Plemons' Teddy and Stone's Michelle Fuller. The former is accompanied by his autistic cousin Don, played by Aidan Delbis. The story follows Teddy as he kidnaps Fuller because he believes she is an alien trying to wipe out humanity.
To prove his theory right, he uses different tactics, including shaving Fuller's head, believing that she won't be able to contact her species this way. Emma Stone actually shaved her head for this role in the film and for the particular sequences that show her like this.
While it seems like Teddy is just going through some mental illness, which is strengthened by the revelation in Bugonia that her mother is in a coma because of Fuller's pharmaceutical company, he was right all along. Emma Stone's character turns out to be an alien.
Following what this alien queen has endured, or rather observed about the people of the earth, she decides that they are just a failed experiment and kills them all. Though this seems like a cruel move, she leaves the earth intact for the rest of the species living on the planet. Yorgos Lanthimos' films have endings that his fans can interpret for themselves, if they want. Bugonia isn't different.
However, instead of interpreting the ending of Bugonia, there is also a message in it for the Earth. Which is, humans aren't worth living on this planet, given they have plagued it with wars, famines, and whatnot. Though none of this is included in the film, it makes sense if we look at the current state of the world. Well, interestingly, that's also an interpretation.
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