Cliffhangers

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode. A cliffhanger is hoped to ensure the audience will return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma.

The clip above is a cliffhanger from the film Kill Bill, the transition to grey colours, suggests more is to come, it infers a element of danger, as in the scene it seems set in a hospital with the IV drip attached to the chair, but after the revelation of the daughter she thought was dead being alive, then cutting to a black screen gives the audience things to ponder in their minds, will she find her daughter? Does the daughter know about her mother?