The ending..

Rating: 10/10 (29 April 2010)

spoiler alert!
before reading watch the film..
i think many people miss the point of the ending. here is the thing:
the annoying ring at the beginning is a tip what the story is about. it stops when noodles's mind is under the influence of drug. we watch noodles's memories and imaginations, but we don't know it before the final smile. another tip is deborah: she is never an old woman throughout the movie. at the end, every thing is cleared up.. noodles (not the old noodles) comes Chinese theater with the newspaper, which he reads at the beginning of the movie, in his pocket. the final smile tells us all that we have just watched is in noodles's mind.
watch carefully every where, every time..