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Excluding the Horror genre and individual movies in a series, what movie story ends with evil winning? (self.asklemmy)

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[–] Crack0n7uesday 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A Scanner Darkly, the drug epidemic is controlled by the pharmaceutical companies and they are still rich at the end.

[–] spittingimage 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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But the movie ends with the brainfried undercover cop picking a drug-producing flower to send to his friends as a gift. It's implied that's what they need to bring the drug empire down.

[–] Crack0n7uesday 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's implied that it could go either way, but the ending it has ended before that could be decided. Also that undercover cop burned out his brain for a cause he never really signed up for.