Resurrection (2025) Ending Explained – Final Scene & Meaning

The ending is deliberately left ambiguous. After Margaret kills Moore and finds the baby, Abbie comes home to find her mother holding the infant in a surreal, almost dreamlike light. The unsettling score as the camera lingers on Margaret's face suggests this final scene may exist only in her fractured mind. Whether Margaret actually rescued Benjamin or created this fantasy as a coping mechanism is never confirmed.

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Margaret kills David Moore. She returns to his apartment armed with a knife, attacks him after he reveals her son is alive inside him, wounds him, ties him to the bed, and then kills him while searching for the infant. Moore dies during this brutal, ritualistic act.

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Moore tells Margaret that the infant she believed she lost years ago is still alive inside him. When she attacks and tears into his body, she discovers a small, still-breathing baby concealed beneath his organs. The film never explains the mechanism, only that Benjamin survived somehow, hidden within Moore's body for decades.

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When Margaret tracks Moore to a restaurant, he proposes a strange condition: she must walk barefoot to work every day as a demonstration of "kindness." This appears to be another form of control and domination over Margaret, which she ultimately refuses.

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Margaret kills Moore and discovers a baby hidden inside him, the son she thought was consumed years ago. She cradles the child, seemingly achieving the rescue she's been haunted by. However, because the ending is ambiguous and may be a hallucination, it's unclear if the rescue actually happened or if Margaret created this outcome in her mind.

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In the closing moments, Abbie returns home to find her mother holding the baby. She tenderly takes the infant and thanks Margaret for "saving them both." The surreal, almost ethereal lighting suggests this may not be reality but rather Margaret's final fantasy, a moment of peace she's constructed to cope with decades of trauma and loss.

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The ambiguous ending serves multiple purposes: it reflects Margaret's fractured psychological state after decades of torment, leaves the audience questioning the nature of reality throughout the film, and mirrors the film's overall themes of dreams versus reality. The unsettling score as the camera holds on Margaret's face signals that the audience should question whether any of what they've seen is real.

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After killing Moore and discovering the baby, Margaret is shown cradling the child in her arms. The film then cuts to Abbie coming home to find her mother holding the infant. Margaret's ultimate fate, whether she is arrested, escapes, or succumbs to her injuries, is never shown. The final image focuses on her face as the unsettling score begins.

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