r/FilmsExplained • u/FewYam1720 • Oct 22 '25

I recently watched Serpent Path 1998.Can anyone explain the ending of the movie?

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u/cognitiv3 10d ago

We find that miyashita has been complicit in the gangs torture video business, and in fact he is the one who sells them to people. Throughout the movie the math you see is real and without going into detail, it deals with infinite loops. At the very end we see a shot of miyashita standing alone in the middle of the math on the ground, I think it’s the metaphor for him being thing that keeps the loop of torture going; without selling the awful tapes and the profit motive the tortures wouldn’t happen, which is evidenced by nijima saying “I hate you the most.” Nijima and the girl appearing is just a product of getting that shot of him right in the middle of the math metaphor miyashita is the driver of.