ABSTRACT
Successful stories require an ending that feels satisfying for the audience. Viewers today tolerate chronological displacement, disruptive editing, and fourth-wall breaking but they still "want closure, a catharsis, some kind of assurance that what artists have seen has meaning and takes place within a morally ordered imaginative universe". Act III's elements include a final twist, climax, completion of the character arc, a climax/obligatory scene, and a resolution. ACT III should be the peak emotional scene in the story. In an ideal scenario, this climax/obligatory scene will both symbolize and reinforce the theme. The climax isn't typically the final scene, there is still a resolution to follow, though in short films they are one and the same scene. The resolution follows the climax. Linda Cowgill underscores that the best resolution presents one last revelation or insight. The resolution might be a character, an event, supernatural ability or object.
