David Lowery’s A Ghost Story has sparked lasting debate about how we cope with loss, find closure, and consider our place in the universe. The movie’s closing moments, defined by the ghost’s struggle to access his wife M’s hidden note, capture a vivid metaphor for emotional release.
As C, the protagonist, spends years, sometimes centuries, trapped within the walls of his former home, his inability to reach the note reflects his unresolved connection to the past.
He becomes less a threat than a witness to life’s constant renewal, unable to interact, simply observing the succession of new families and inevitable urban development.
The narrative’s heart centers on M leaving behind a note in a crack before painting over it, a ritual she adopted as a child to anchor herself emotionally when moving homes. For C, the ghost, retrieving this note is not merely about curiosity; it’s about acceptance.
Critics have highlighted how his haunting becomes a cycle, looping endlessly until the pivotal moment when he finally snatches the note before the paint dries, reads it, and instantly vanishes.
The story’s cyclical structure, a haunting within a haunting, grounds its message: closure is only possible when that final connection is made, regardless of how many lifetimes it might take.
The existential questions raised at the film’s raucous house party, where a guest ponders the futility of legacy and memory as time eventually eclipses all, further underscore the poignancy of C’s ordeal.
His journey navigates the loneliness of grieving and the sensory echoes left behind by lost love, perfectly illustrated by the prolonged scenes of isolation and muted longing.
Breaking the Loop: Time, Memory, and Moving Forward
One of A Ghost Story’s boldest moves is its depiction of time as nonlinear; C’s ghost endures decades, even centuries, as the home changes hands, collapses, and is reborn as a skyscraper.
These leaps reveal him not as a menacing spirit but as a memory bound by unresolved grief, his own identity slipping away until only longing remains. The film circles back to C’s life and death, then jolts into the past as settlers first claim the land, tracing a haunting that transcends any single incarnation of a home or relationship.
Director David Lowery describes the finale as emblematic of different versions of the same spirit, one innocent and lost, one gaining understanding and purpose. The image of two ghosts overlapping in the same space becomes a powerful visual metaphor, expressing how trauma and memory persist in layers.
Only by finally grasping M’s note does C break the cycle, a symbol of moving through grief rather than being bound by it.
A Ghost Story (Credit: Amazon Prime Video)
The content of the note is never revealed to viewers, and this omission has ignited discussion online and among critics; its meaning is intentionally private, a nod to the deeply personal nature of closure and letting go.
Questions about legacy, creative output, and whether anything we leave behind truly matters are mirrored in C’s journey. The abrupt end to his haunting sheet simply collapsing as he reads the message signals that personal acceptance outweighs any broader existential resolution.
Grief, Echoes, and Enduring Questions: Why Viewers Can’t Forget
The slow, minimalist pacing of A Ghost Story makes the ending feel both haunting and freeing. The ghost’s journey through time and recurring attempts to reach the note reflect universal struggles with grief, unfinished business, and what it means to move on.
The film’s sparse dialogue, evocative imagery, and lingering shots contribute to a mood of contemplation rarely seen in mainstream cinema. Individual reactions to the ending vary; some viewers find it cathartic, while others see it as a stark reminder that comfort isn’t always possible in every story of loss.
Online reviews and analyses have praised the film for shifting ghost stories away from horror and towards a more philosophical meditation on existence, love, and the remnants we leave behind. It questions whether grief ever truly ends or transforms into echoes that shape all future connections.
By leaving the note’s contents secret, the story invites audiences to bring their own experiences to C’s moment of release, reminding viewers that meaning and closure are always personal and complicated.
Across film sites and critic reviews, Lowery’s work is often classified as arthouse for its patient, subtle approach, but there’s a universal appeal in its depiction of time, memory, and letting go.
The closing scene, where the ghost disappears after reading the long-sought message, provides as much emotional release for the viewer as for its spectral protagonist, demonstrating that stories about ghosts may have more to say about wounds, healing, and hope than about supernatural mysteries.
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One Piece 1165 Spoilers Release Date
One Piece 1165 Spoilers will be coming out on Sunday, 2 November 2025. The chapter will be officially released a week later on 9 November 2025.
One Piece 1165 Spoilers – ADDITIONAL SPOILERS – CONFIRMED
Garp & Roger vs Xebec continues for 7 pages (1 double page) then shifts focus, PS. Battle is still going on. – CONFIRMED
Kaido and Big Mom are leaving. – CONFIRMED
Whitebeard is also leaving. – CONFIRMED
Shiki is quite shocked to see Rocks.
We get a panel from Marco’s dad, and he is named POLO. Get it? Marco Polo. (Unconfirmed on name)
MORE SPOILERS Part 1 – Confirmed
Xebec Releases a new type of conqueror’s haki.
Garp and Roger follows with their Haki. If it were one of them, they would not be able to do anything and will be slaughtered.
Every member of the rocks pirate is going on their way.
Break Next Week.
With Xebec vs Garp and Roger – God Valley’s face is changing drastically in this chapter.
ONE PIECE CHAPTER 1165 BRIEF SPOILERS
CHAPTER 1165: REVERBERATION
– COVER READER REQUEST: LAW AND BEPO USING ZEUS AS A SLEEPING PILLOW.
– SHIKI DECLARES THAT THIS IS THE END OF THE ROCKS PIRATES. WE SEE THE REMAINING MEMBERS OF THE ROCKS PIRATES (WITH GANZUI STILL ALIVE) GOING THEIR SEPARATE WAYS.
– ROGER AND GARP TELL THEIR CREW AND SOLDIERS THAT THEY WILL COME BACK. THEN, THEY JOIN FORCES TO FACE XEBEC IN AN EPIC BATTLE THAT SPANS SEVERAL PAGES.
– KAIDO AND LINLIN ARE TALKING; SHE TELLS HIM THAT HE HAS A LIFETIME DEBT TO HER. THEY THEN PART WAYS.
– WHITEBEARD MEETS A MAN NAMED POLO GRAM (WHO SEEMS TO BE MARCO’S FATHER). HE’S A FAN OF WHITEBEARD AND ASKS TO JOIN FORCES WITH HIM.
– IMU GIVES THE ORDER TO DESTROY AND ERASE EVERYTHING ON GOD VALLEY.
– XEBEC’S CONQUEROR’S HAKI IS INCREDIBLY STRONG, SO GARP AND ROGER DECIDE TO UNLEASH ALL THEIR HAKI IN ONE COMBINED ATTACK AGAINST HIM.
– THE CHAPTER ENDS WITH GARP AND ROGER LAUNCHING THEIR ATTACKS ON XEBEC IN AN EPIC PANEL—GARP’S MOVE RESEMBLES LUFFY’S ELEPHANT GATLING, WHILE ROGER CHANNELS HIS HAKI THROUGH HIS SWORD.
– THEY ULTIMATELY DEFEAT XEBEC AS THE DARK, EVIL ENERGY SEEPS OUT OF HIS BODY.
ADDITIONAL SPOILERS
Xebec, Garp, Roger, Shanks, Mihawk,Whitebeard, literally all big dogs of the one piece world had their moments in battles with feats, yet there is one dude, Oda is saving for the last.
We are not ready for the Dragon UPSCALE. (worstgen)
Dragon threatens his squad leader to save all remaining civilians on the island, holding a gun to his forehead and saying he will kill him if he doesn’t.
Xebec Conqueror’s Haki is capable of negating enemy attacks. Roger and Garp can barely harm Xebec, as their Haki cannot bypass Xebec’s. In the end, they unleash all their Haki into a single attack, knowing full well that if it fails, they will die against Xebec..
Whitebeard left God Valley together with Marco’s father Polo.
ROGER: “IF YOU’RE NOT RETURNING TO THE MARINES, THEN COME ABOARD MY SHIP.” GARP: “THEN WHO WILL PROTECT THE MARINES?” ROGER: “YOU REALLY CAN’T LEAVE THEM BEHIND, HUH?” GARP: “MY DUTY IS MY DUTY, ROGER. I’LL FOLLOW YOU AS AN ALLY, NOT AS A PIRATE.” ROGER: “GUESS I CAN’T ARGUE WITH THAT. THE MARINES’ LOSS IS MY CREW’S LOSS, THEN.” GARP: “AND THE WORLD’S GAIN, ROGER. THE MARINES WILL STAND STRONG AS LONG AS I’M THERE.”
At the end where Xebec is defeated, the narrator talks about the incident and how the world government tried to cover up and erase everything about the rock pirates, which they failed to do.
English
Roger attack is called “Fire God Ace” Garp attack is called “Infinite Fist Explosion”
Japanese
Garp’s technique is called “Infinite Iron Fist” Roger’s technique is called “Flame of Kagutsuchi – Hades
DETAILED SUMMRY ONE PIECE 1165
More details of the chapter, thanks to redon from arlong park forums. Chapter is 17 pages Chapter 1,165: “Echoes”. Reader request in the cover: “Bepo laying comfortably with zeus as a pillow”. Oda added Law to the cover, and all of them are sleeping on top of a giant sheep.
Chapter starts where last one ended. Garp asked Roger if he can also hear Rocks voice. Then Roger and Garp attacked demon Rocks. We see multiple pages of the battle. Roger and Garp’s attacks didn’t wound Rocks. This confrontation ended with a colossal clash that created a massive wave of supreme king haki. Roger and Garp crashed into the mountains. The clash split the sky over god valley.
Roger and Garp got up after the clash. Despite being wounded, they took off their jackets, ready to continue fighting. Two little den den mushi started ringing and they talked with their comrades. Roger/Garp: “We will return!!!”
Garp: “Rocks… Roger… I was planning on putting both of you in cuffs on this island, but now…!!” Roger: “And my original plan was to take Shakky and the treasures and get the hell out of here!!! Seems like we will have to team up huh?” Garp: “Not my intention coming here at all!!! But I suppose leaving this fella to his own is out of the options!!!”
Then Roger and Garp attacked Rocks again. At the same time we see that Rayleigh reached their ship and brought Shakky to safety. Roger pirates arrived too with all treasures they could get. We see Kyo telling his men to take the ship and leave the island. Shiki said too that this is the end of “Rocks pirates”.
Linlin and Kaidou were talking in other part of God Valley. They were fine despite Rocks attacks. Linlin: “Listen now, Kaidou!! This is the “DEBT OF A LIFETIME”!! And I will make you pay me back one day!!!” Kaidou: “Idiot!! I beat you in that competition for the fruit, that’s the simple truth Linlin!!
Just you see!! I will establish a crew where violence is everything!!!” Linlin: “Getting ahead of ourselves aren’t we!! You will never surpass me!!” Streusen: “Linlin!! What are you doing!! We are leaving, take the treasures!!”
Linlin: “I will come to collect that debt one day.” Kaidou: “And I will throw you back where you came from!!!”
In other part of God Valley, Newgate met the pirate who looked like Marco. He’s “Polo Gram” captain of “Polo Pirates”. Polo: “Newgate!! You are the one who crashed that mountain, aren’t you!?
Looks like the crew is falling apart!! My name is Gram!! I am a fan of yours!! You got no ships to return to, right!? Work with me!!” Newgate: “Sounds like a pain, get lost!!” Stussy, Ganzui and Gill Bastar were also running away with several treasures. Gill Bastar was accompanied by a ghost that looks similar to the ones Perona creates in the present. Stussy was very angry asking where is Newgate.
In one of the Marines battleships, Dragon was threatening a higher rank Marine with a rifle to take some surviving civilians on the ship with them. On the other hand, Rayleigh and Gaban decided to return to the island to look for Roger. They asked Roger Pirates to leave the island and wait for them.
Imu in Saturn’s body (normal Saturn’s body has now Imu’s eyes) left the island on a World Government ship. Imu ordered to erase God Valley from existence. Then narrator explains how Marines from G-11 base and Cipher Pol 6 erased all information about God Valley and hunting tournament.
Garp and Roger Vs. Rocks continues, the other huge mountain of God Valley was destroyed during the battle. Garp and Roger couldn’t damage Rocks because even though they coated their attacks with Supreme King Haki, Rocks used his Supreme King Haki to cancel them out.
Against this background, Roger suggested to pour all their supreme king haki together in 1 attack to overcome Rocks’ guards. But that plan had a problem, after that attack Roger and Garp will have no strength left so it’s a big gamble. But Garp agreed with Roger’s plan. Then in the absolutely EPIC final double page of the chapter, Roger and Garp used a combine attack to defeat rocks. Roger: “”Hinokagutsuchi no ace” (kanjis mean “Wise man of flame god”)!!!” Garp: “”Infinitum explosion”!!!”
Roger attacked with multiple thrusts to cut Rocks’ body and Garp threw Rocks several punches at the same time (this attack is similar to Luffy’s “Gomu gomu no gatling”). Chapter ends with Rocks defeat as narrator talks about the legacy of “Rocks pirates”…
Narrator: the “World government” sought to conceal the incident in this entirety. However the group under Rocks D. Xebec, was an organization of chaos that shaped an era. The collapse of the “Rocks pirates” shook the world with its defined echoes…!!!” End of chapter. Break next week.
“One Piece” is a beloved Japanese manga and anime series that chronicles the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his pirate crew. Luffy, imbued with rubber powers from a mystical fruit Hito Hito no Mi, aspires to become the Pirate King. To achieve this, he seeks the ultimate treasure, the “One Piece,” hidden at the Grand Line’s end. Along the journey, Luffy gathers a diverse crew, confronts formidable foes, and uncovers world-altering secrets, all while promoting themes of friendship, freedom, and adventure.
