Bugoniareleased in the US on October 24, 2025, is a dark science fiction comedy film by Yorgos Lanthimos. The film stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis and more. Remake of the South Korean film, Save the green planet, Emma Stone’s new offering is being hailed for its story, especially its twisted ending. So, this is what happened at the end of Bugonia.
Is Emma Stone’s ‘Michelle’ an Alien in Bugonia?
The film’s protagonist, ‘Teddy’, is a conspiracy theorist who kidnaps ‘Michelle’, believing her to be an alien. His neurodivergent cousin, ‘Dan’, helps him with the abduction. Meanwhile, ‘Michelle’ is also the CEO of the pharmaceutical company ‘Auxolith’, which performed tests on ‘Teddy’s mother and left her in a coma. After torturing ‘Michelle’, the conspiracy theorist concludes that she is a high-level member of the Andromeda alien race.
After a lot of things happen in the movie, ‘Michelle’ discovers that the remains of many people that ‘Teddy’ had tortured and killed were innocent people on his mission to find Andromedans and save planet Earth. ‘Michelle’ becomes enraged and reveals to ‘Teddy’ that she is, in fact, an alien. Not only that, but she is also the empress of the Andromedans, who created humans after accidentally killing the dinosaurs after their arrival. However, in ‘Auxolith’, they were making a drug to evolve humans, as they were dismayed by the number of Earthlings who had poisoned the planet and had also turned against each other.
What will happen to the human race at the end of Bugonia?
‘Michelle’ gives in to ‘Teddy’ and agrees to let him meet with the Andromedans to negotiate with them the possibility of taking charge. Land. However, the suicide vest that ‘Teddy’ revealed he was wearing goes off and ‘Michelle’ is knocked unconscious after being hit in the head during the explosion. After ‘Michelle’ escapes to her mothership, she consults with her council and lets them know that humans can no longer be saved and have no compassion or empathy left. After witnessing the worst side of this, ‘Michelle’ kills all of humanity by bursting a bubble over a model of the Earth in her spaceship. The grim ending shows the planet filled with the corpses of people who died in an instant, in the middle of carrying out an action.
More about Bugonia
emma stone plays the alien ‘Michelle’. Meanwhile, Jesse Plemons plays ‘Teddy.’ Aidan Delbis is seen as ‘Dan’ and Alicia Silverstone essays the role of ‘Sandy’, Teddy’s mother. The end of Bugonia It’s been debated a lot and people have come up with many different metaphors to explain it. Emma Stone, speaking about the plot and ending, shared:
“I think Michelle really, really wants to save the world. In the end, it’s devastating for her to have to make peace with the fact that they’ve become poison to the planet and that the planet needs to move on. So while there are some evil moments in her, deep down, she cares about the promise of humanity, and yet she’s been constantly let down by the reality of what people do to themselves and others.”
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