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Many critics noted the "controversial" nature of this ending. Is the film saying that traumatized women become monsters? Perhaps. But a more generous reading suggests the film is about the toxicity of savior complexes. Ellie wanted to be Sandie’s hero, but Sandie was never a damsel waiting to be rescued. She was a survivor who made horrific choices to endure. Ellie’s quest to sanitize the past almost gets her killed. In the end, Ellie dances with the ghost of Sandie, not in fear, but in acceptance. She sees the cracks in the veneer and chooses to move forward anyway.

The greatest trick the film pulls is using Anya Taylor-Joy’s voice. She performs a stunning cover of "Downtown" during a horrific sequence where the dead men of Soho surround her. The sweetness of her voice against the ugly snarls of the ghostly men is the film’s thesis in one scene: beauty existing alongside, and despite, horror. Last Night in Soho

“You see me,” she said. “So finish it.” Many critics noted the "controversial" nature of this ending

As Sandie is passed from man to man in the dark corners of the Rialto club, Ellie wakes up screaming. The "ghosts" of Soho—the men who used and discarded women like Sandie—begin manifesting in the present day, their rotting faces reflected in subway tiles and shop windows. Wright visualizes the horror of internalized misogyny perfectly: the past isn't just a memory; it is a physical weight pressing down on Ellie. But a more generous reading suggests the film

Ellie felt everything Sandie felt: the thrill of a first whiskey at the Toucan Club, the weight of a man’s hand on her lower back, the dizzy hope when a promoter named Jack said, “I know people, darling. Important people.”

The genius of Last Night in Soho lies in its deconstruction of 1960s nostalgia. The first act bathes Sandie in golden light and beautiful slow-motion walks down Carnaby Street. The second act shatters that glass.

A lonely fashion student with the ability to see the dead moves into a rundown Soho flat, only to discover that her glamorous 1960s doppelgänger is a desperate ghost trapped in a cycle of abuse — and that rescuing her from the past might destroy the present.