‘Tron: Ares’ ending explained: What does it all mean?

Tron: Aresthe third live-action film in the long-running sci-fi series, will hit theaters on Friday. This time, the story brings digital objects from the network into our world. A program named Ares (played by Jared Leto) leads the charge and is sent on a mission to recover a coveted set of zeros and ones, a MacGuffin referred to in the film as The Permanence Code. This quest turns into a race for survival on multiple fronts.

Leto may be leading the pack in this regard, but he’s backed by a strong roster of talent: Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Gillian Anderson, Arturo Castro and Jeff Bridges.

If you read My review of the movieYou’ll know I enjoyed Tron: Ares. Like the previous installments in the series, this new film, directed by Joachim Rönning, is powered by mind-boggling special effects and thrilling action sequences. Nine Inch Nails’ score adds a whole other cinematic narrative quality to things, immersing you deeper into this universe.

Similar to the 1982 and 2010 Tron TRON: Legacythe narrative structure and writing proved to be the weakest links in Tron: Ares’ overall package. However, many details caught my attention, most notably the film’s ending and the pre-credits sequence that followed.

It goes without saying that if you haven’t seen Tron: Ares yet, stop here. There are spoilers below.

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Tron: Ares’ ending explained

It’s all about the law of permanence. Dillinger Systems CEO Julian Dillinger (Peters) wants it for the money, power and influence. Dillinger manages to bring programs from his network into the real world, but they only survive for 29 minutes before disintegrating from our reality.

Using the code, Dillinger would be able to keep Ares here indefinitely, which would be ideal, considering how much he wants to sell the program to the military as the next generation of weapons. Eve Kim (Lee), president of ENCOM, wants to code for good reasons: to discover scientific breakthroughs and build a positive future for humanity.

Needless to say, Dillinger never expected Ares to part ways with his programs. Like Tron: Legacy’s Quorra (Olivia Wilde) before him, Ares reveals himself to be a digital being with greater aspirations to become human. This need makes him an additional target for Dillinger, who pushes Athena (Turner Smith), Ares’s second-in-command, after him and Lee, to recover the code by any means necessary.

She took the “by any means necessary” part of Dillinger’s directive to heart, killing his mother, Elizabeth, in the process, and created the recognizer from the video game Space Paranoids, using Dillinger’s giant 3D printer laser, and brought him into the real world.

A final boss battle ensues between Athena and Ares, who have done a side quest in Kevin Flynn’s network (Bridges), obtained the Token of Permanence (or Impermanence, depending on Flynn), and returned as a full-fledged human. After a flashy brawl in the street, Ares prevails with the help of Kim’s friends at Encom, who plant a virus in Dillinger’s network, bringing an end to all the digital chaos.

A few months later, Kim achieved the technical breakthrough I mentioned earlier – thanks to this code. In the afterglow of success, she received a postcard from Ares. We see him in a European café, living “off the grid,” with perfectly conditioned hair and stylish clothes. Here he mentions a new mission to find others like him.

He looks at an old newspaper clipping of Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) and a photo of Quorra, who, in the final moments of Tron: Legacy, is seen riding Sam’s motorcycle into the proverbial sunset. Remember, Quorra was once networked as a program, to be edited by Flynn in the 2010 movie. (I assume she found the permanence code, isn’t there a problem?)

What does the Tron: Ares pre-credits scene mean?

After Ares rode off on his motorcycle into the sunset — and after a brief musical snippet of the Nine Inch Nails song, As Alive as You Need Me to Be — things went back to Ed Dillinger.

All the street damage was attributed to him, and a large group of law enforcement officers eventually breached his facility. With nowhere to go and a significant lack of accountability for his actions, Dillinger activated the large red lasers. As the cops streamed in, guns drawn, Dillinger stormed away into his network of computer systems.

The final moments of the film find Dillinger in the building formerly inhabited by Ares and Athena. He soon finds a Dillinger Systems disk, and when activated, becomes digitally engaged. luminous silhouette of sarc, Original master control software Created by Julian’s grandfather, Ed Dillinger (David Warner), the former head of ENCOM in 1982’s Tron, it is shown superimposed on his body.

What could this mean? Well, this sequence, combined with Ares’s curiosity about Quorra, indicates that another Tron movie is in the works. maybe. It all depends on how well Tron: Ares does at the box office. However, the idea of ​​Tron 4, with Ares and Quorra teaming up against Dillinger and the return of Dillinger MCP, sounds pretty cool. Fingers crossed, it happens.