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Originally Posted by Mariner
It didn't seem to me so much that Mark was "getting away" so much as all of the issues were somehow at that point resolved. It was like Marnie coming face to face with the root of her psychological issues somehow wiped the slate clean for both of them.
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Dude, no way! You don't cure a woman who has sexual issues springing from childhood trauma by r.aping her. If I thought Hitchcock intended to suggest the guy COULD wipe the slate clean after that (with no actual, lucid repentence on his part, might I add), I'd be goddamn offended. I think the ending's more about how she thinks it'll all be okay now because she's resolved the trauma of the past, but can't see far enough to realize that she's still being dominated, as much as the guy (can't remember his name) claims to love her. The happy ending seems entirely ironic. Throughout the movie, the dude uses psychoanalysis as a tool of repression, not liberation, and she buys it at the end.