Blood Sister: the finale — "On-screen, we’re still following the tough…"
On-screen, we’re still following the tough nun (or ex-nun). The fact that the hatchet she resignedly dropped fetched the prone Mother Superior a pretty healthy knock is presented as clearly accidental… because she (Blood Sister) is still walking away from the convent, moving emphatically and in a gradually deepening focus. Limping toughly eastward into the twittering Toronto dawn. The cartridge’s closing sequence shows her astride her Hawg on Toronto’s meanest street. About to lapse? Backslide back into her tough pre-saved ways? It’s unclear in a way that’s supposed to be rich: her expression is agnostic at best, but the huge sign of a discount Harley-muffler outlet juts just at the horizon she’s roaring toward. The closing credits are the odd lime-green of bugs on a windshield.
Context
Genre anatomy at its sharpest: the ending's ambiguity is itself identified as a priced convention — "unclear in a way that's supposed to be rich" — and then undercut by mise-en-scène reading: the muffler-outlet sign juts at the horizon of the supposedly open question (she'd demufflered the Hawg when she reverted; the sign quietly loads the answer — that decoding one notch past the raw's letter, marked inferred). "Presented as clearly accidental," "gradually deepening focus," windshield-bug credits: Hal's viewing intelligence wearing the narrator's voice to the last frame.