Does Dabir Remain With Frigga Following The Abyss's Closing?
When Dabir arrived to Kiruna, he had no idea he was walking into a city headed for disaster. He had meant to pop the question to Frigga, but Simon vanished and the ever-growing seismic activity called off these preparations. Dabir also heard from Tage that Frigga had not signed her divorce paperwork even though she had them for months. This makes the man wonder if he should accept or propose the Kiruna Fire Department job. Frigga's husband also made it quite evident that he thought Dabir was upsetting their way of life; then, Tage's passing altered everything.
Though it's never clear-cut, this understated glance between the two characters suggests that they stayed together in New Kiruna, as Tage wanted in his last hours. Before the end of The Abyss, Tage's last words before giving his life to save his family were aimed at Dabir, pleading with him to look after his kids in his absence. The man may have have received to wed Frigga, this was the most obvious benefit. But at the end of The Abyss, Dabir is staring carefully at his engagement ring before staring far away at Frigga. Their eyes lock, and Frigga smiles—where the action film from 2023 finishes. Though it's never clear-cut, this nuanced glance between the two characters suggests that, as Tage wanted in his last hours, they lived together in New Kiruna following the events of The Abyss 2023.
The Abyss's Tage's Sacrifice Clarified
At the end of The Abyss, Tage gave his life to preserve his family, therefore enabling the bright future for Dabir and Frigga. Though he had hated Dabir for most of The Abyss, the three worked together when Simon, Mika, and Frigga were caught in a sinkhole within the high school. The three leaps atop a vending machine dangling on its electrical cord into the hole to flee, allowing Debir to lower robes down to pull Mika, Simon, and a badly injured Frigga one by one.
But the vending machine cord starts to break before every one can reach safety. Tage runs over and grabs hold of the cut cable and the wall, keeping the vending machine up just long enough for everyone to flee the sinkhole, therefore giving Dabir enough time to save every member of his family. But the energy of the damaged wire drives a terrible electrical current across Tage. The dying guy begs Dabir to take care of his family before his heart quits after falling on the ground. At the last scene of The Abyss, Tage's body is taken from the high school while Dabir looks down on the engagement ring he intended to present Frigga.
The actual meaning of the abyss 2023 ending
Though the ending of 2023's The Abyss was dramatic, it also had more thematic depth and relevance than first seems. The last scenes of The Abyss include obvious character-specific aspects, of course. Tage's sacrifice represents letting go during a difficult split or separation if it means knowing one's family is safer or better-off for it (as Dabir signified a steady future Tage could not deliver).
Regarding this, The Abyss 2023 conclusion has some thematic relevance given the hinted Dabir is going to propose to Frigga and Frigga's injuries were connected to Tage's death. The suffering and sadness of the death of one or both partners inevitably shapes a second marriage. Frigga's injury captures this suffering; the death of Tage is a (rather harsh) metaphor for the loss of the person she was in love with before their marriage commenced. By showing the physical collapse in a far more brutal and direct manner, the ending of 2023's The Abyss and everything that follows before reflect the emotional effect of the slow-moving actual world calamity. But as The Abyss is based on a factual story, the events of the 2023 film also have more relevance and depth to the Kiruna people personally. Naturally, the real town is moving in line with similar, albeit less spectacular, narratives. Moving an entire town is a long and tough process, hence the effects this has had on the local community have most certainly been disastrous. By showing the physical collapse in a far more violent and direct manner, the ending of 2023's The Abyss and all that follows before reflect the emotional impact of the slow-moving actual life catastrophe.
What happened to Son Simon in the Abyss from Frigga?
Desperate to find out what happened to their son Simon, who vanished before the duo came across the great pit under Kiruna, Frigga and Tage search most of The Abyss. The first scene of the 2023 film shows a teenage lad falling fatally into one of the first sinkholes close to the Kiruma mine's rift zone, therefore initially the audience is lead to believe Simon is involved. The disclosure that the teen's friend had driven Mika's car to a rift-zone celebration seem to confirm this.
Some hope that the lad could still be alive, though, when Mika and Dabir explore the rift zone and find that the phone within the abyss belongs not to Simon. More red herrings point to Simon's fate: Aila's grandma tells the worried parents their son left town, while Frigga observes a boy looking like Simon hit by a car. The family discovered from a teenage girl that Simon and his friends had visited an abandoned high school to play Call of Duty only after they visited the hospital. Frigga, Tage, Mika, and Dabir rushed right away for the school, where they discovered the dead bodies of several adolescents before at last spotting Simon, alive but imprisoned in a sinkhole. After winding down into the pit to retrieve him, Frigga and Mika found it nearly hard to come out once a broken rebar stabbed Frigga's leg. Tage's heroic movie dying happened in The Abyss so his family would survive here.
2023: The Abyss: Clarifying Every Death
Apart from Tage, there were several notable deaths by the time the ending of The Abyss 2023 reached. The first occurred in the very first scene when a partying teen was sucked into the always widening gap zone. It's at first implied that this boy is Simon, but since this wasn't true, we never discover his true identity. The subsequent death was Frigga's coworker and friend Erika, who accompanied her and Tage into the abandoned part of the Kiruna mine to investigate the quakes. She sadly perished when a small shaft collapsed in.
Once Frigga realized that the town of Kiruna was doomed to collapse into the Earth at any moment, she rushed back to tell everyone to evacuate. Unfortunately, people didn't move fast enough, and dozens of citizens fell into the various sinkholes that began appearing all over town. Among these deaths was Mika's girlfriend, Aila, who saved a baby in a stroller but couldn't escape the hole herself. The final notable deaths of The Abyss came at the high school, where Frigga and her family found an injured girl named Tina. Though they tried to save her, the girl ultimately succumbed to her wound.
A Deep Dive into The Abyss
The 2023 Swedish Film The Abyss tells the fictionalized story of the disastrous earthquakes in Kiruna, Sweden, leading up to the tragic but promising ending for its central characters. The film primarily follows Frigga Vibenius, the head of security at the Kiruna mines, who is divorcing her husband, Tage Vibenius. The Abyss picks up on their son Simon's birthday, which is accompanied by alarming seismic activity near the mine. Despite Simon being missing, Frigga must head to the mine to determine the potential risk.
Coincidentally, Frigga's boyfriend in the Netflix movie The Abyss, Dabir, comes to Kiruna on this same day with plans to propose. However, this is put on hold as it's realized that Simon has gone missing. Frigga's daughter Mika sets out to look for Simon, and Frigga and Tage, as well as other mine employees, head underground to investigate. While there, Frigga realizes that a chasm has opened up under Kiruna, and any subsequent earthquakes would cause the entire town to collapse into a massive sinkhole. Before they can evacuate, the family must find Simon, leading to Tage's heroic sacrifice.
Why The City of Kiruna, Sweden, Collapsed
In the 2023 movie The Abyss, it is mentioned early on that the entire town of Kiruna was being moved to a new location because years of mining had resulted in hallow cavities throughout the region. The continued mining increased the number of earthquakes, further exacerbating the problem. In one of the closed-down portions of the mine, Frigga found a massive cavity that ran directly beneath the town and realized that they didn't have as long to move Kiruna as they had initially believed — everyone needed to get out immediately.
The 2023 Disaster Movie certainly dramatized the situation, but The Abyss is based on the real town of Kiruna, Sweden, which is in the process of moving, building by building and home by home, to a new area thanks to the sinking ground (via Euro News). This became necessary after an earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale hit the Kiruna mines in 2020. Thankfully, there were no reported casualties from this disaster, unlike the catastrophic events leading to the ending of The Abyss.
