The Ending Of The Devil All the Time Explained

Although most of The Devil All the Time's interwoven plot points have been wrapped up by the end of the film, viewers may still leave with some questions about what they just watched, including what it's all supposed to mean. Here are some of the things we're still thinking about after watching The Devil All the Time.

The first person to speak in The Devil All the Time is someone who is never seen or named. He sets the stage for the film and quickly explains the meaning of the title.

"He came every morning and evening to talk to God. It seemed to his son that his father fought the devil all the time."

This narrator continues to chime in throughout the rest of the film, tying the seemingly disparate stories together and commenting on the characters' motivations, doubts, and innermost thoughts.

As a matter of fact, the narrator is the book's author, Donald Ray Pollock. In his director's statement that accompanied screeners of the film, Antonio Campos explained,

"I wanted to use a narrator to tell the story and build a world in which we gave a voice to the 'Creator.'"

In a film that strongly centers themes of faith and religion, "Creator" can have two meanings: first, as the book's author, the literal creator of the story; and second, as an omnipotent God character, who comments on the story through an all-knowing yet detached lens. Pollock's inclusion as the narrator feels almost like a meta-commentary on the faith of the characters, showing that someone is indeed listening to their desperate prayers and that it's actually the same individual who put them in their harrowing circumstances to begin with. Keep watching the video to see the ending of The Devil All the Time explained.

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Who's the narrator? | 0:13
Arvin's fate | 1:17
The killer sheriff | 2:20
Sandy and Carl | 3:33
Johnson's speech | 4:40
Themes of faith | 5:55
Themes of violence | 7:31
Finding meaning | 8:21

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