The Snowman Ending Detailed Explanation
The Snowman is a convoluted murder tale, and Harry Hole's killer is very closer than he believes. This clarifies the intricate finish.
Harry Hole most likely should have suspected someone close to him as the killer in The Snowman, and the ending helps to solve a lot of the riddle about the offender. The 2017 British Thriller centers Harry working with Katrine Bratt to uncover the Killer killing women's secret by leaving a snowman behind. Though he considers several candidates along the road but does not get to the truth of the murders until the very end of the movie, Harry works nonstop to solve the case. The Snowman draws on Jo Nesbø's 2007 book of the same name. Though much awaited among readers, The Snowman was not greeted with the kind of compliments the book received. The icy setting of the movie added the snowman killings' motif. Shot all throughout Norway, especially in Oslo, the Snowman highlighted the breathtaking snowy mountains of the city. Harry also manages his breakup with Rakel, for whom he apparently still harbours emotions throughout the movie. Harry struggles with drinking, but his love of cracking the riddle drives him back into line in his life. Though they have many hypotheses throughout the movie, Harry and Katrine ignore someone rather close to Harry, who turns out to be the offender. Given its complexity, the finale of The Snowman calls for a thorough justification.
The Snowman Killer: Who exactly?
The Snowman's conclusion exposed surgeon Mathias as the Killer, hiding his deadly acts under cover of professional reputation. From Arve Støp to Idar Vetelsen, Harry and Katrine suspect several possible killers all throughout the disjointed narrative of The Snowman. At the end of the movie, Harry finds, though, that Mathias Lund-Helgesen had been the killer all through. Though Harry never put the hints together, Mathias and he had multiple scenes together throughout the movie. Mathias is a well-known surgeon, thus he comes out as a kind professional unable of injuring anyone. Mathias was a real killer, hence this was obviously a front.
Motive of the Snowman Killer: Why Mathias Did It?
The first scene of The Snowman shows a young lad with his mother and biological father. The lad came from an affair; when his mother threatens to tell his father's wife the truth, His father bolts, driving in his automobile. Driven off the road onto a frozen lake, the boy's mother pursues him while seated in the passenger side. When the lad gets out of the car, he tells his mother to follow suit; she does not. She stays in the car while it descends into the frozen lake and cracks.
Harry and his team's revelations at the end of the movie make Mathias—the young child from The Snowman's opening scene—clearly identifiable. After his mother passed away and his father left, Mathias became an orphan and lived his whole life in wrath and bitterness over the circumstances. But Mathias' wrath is misplaced. Mathias feels his mother decided to die in the car since she didn't love him. Driven by his hate of his own mother, he begins killing women in circumstances involving an abortion or unknown father. Harry tells him at the close of The Snowman he had it all wrong his entire life. His father, not his mother, was the one who showed little regard for him.
The Snowman Killer's Relationship To Harry Hole
By the end of The Snowman, Harry's personal background helps him to identify the Killer; the detective is startled that the killer is known to him and has historical significance. Given Mathias is seeing Rakel, Harry's ex-partner, Harry knows who the killer is. It is clear throughout the movie that Rakel and Harry still feel something for one another even if she apparently moved on from Harry. Since Mathias is still in Rakel's life and he is like a father figure to Rakel's kid, Oleg, who doesn't know who his biological father is, they are friendly to each other.
But given Harry's background with Rakel, Mathies and Harry also have some conflict. Mathias informs Harry that although Harry's life is also rather damaged, he thought he must have a perfect family when he first met him. Mathias develops hatred toward Harry as Rakel and Oleg both love him while Mathias has no one.
The Snowman Ending's Real Meaning
The Snowman has a compelling message about how childhood pain and anger can drive a person insane, even while the filmmaker notes that the film does not always communicate it cleanly. Not everyone who went through difficult growing up or harbours anger will become a killer, but this is what happened to Mathias. He used what his parents did to him to drive his adult murder spree; he never recovered from it. The Snowman conclusion also addresses the way society lets fathers off the hook while routinely blaming mothers and women.
Mathias ends up slipping across the ice and into the frozen lake, dying the very same manner his mother did, therefore revealing how bitterness would always end in death. Mathias's resentment toward his mother over her passing outweighed his toward his father for leaving. Although he killed males all throughout The Snowman, most of his killings were of women in precarious circumstances—such as not knowing the actual father of their kid. Mathias ends up sliding through the ice and into the frozen lake, dying the very same manner his mother did, so the conclusion also shows how resentment will always end in death.
The Snowman Director Says Whether The Movie Needs Explanation
The Snowman's director is quite aware that many of the ending's parts call for more discussion and is not at all surprised about the difficult nature of the 2017 film. Speaking out in 2017, Norwegian director Tomas Alfredson—also behind 2008's Let the Right One In and 2011's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy—shared his viewpoint. "Our shoot time in Norway was way too short, we didn't have the whole story with us and when we started cutting we discovered that a lot was missing. The Snowman had an underwhelming response compared to some of his previous films and blames the reception and some of the more confusing elements of the plot on having an incomplete script while filming." It's similar to when you're working on a large jigsaw puzzle and a few parts are absent, therefore obscuring the whole image.
Although production mistakes could explain why some of the thiller's finer aspects were lost in English, this didn't stop The Snowman from becoming something of a cult classic when it started streaming on Netflix. Though many probably still value having the ending of The Snowman explored, Alfredson's psychological Thriller does seem to have found its own audience even if it's not as successful as movies like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
