Ending Explained: Christine

💡 What does the ending really mean?

Christine's climax sees the possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury, after being repeatedly destroyed, grotesquely rebuild itself in the garage while Arnie desperately tries to protect it. In a final confrontation, the car crushes Arnie to death against a wall as he screams in futile devotion. Dennis and Leigh then obliterate the remains with a bulldozer, reducing the malevolent vehicle to scrap. The ending symbolizes the lethal, all-consuming nature of toxic obsession: Christine doesn't just kill her owner, she becomes the ultimate metaphor for self-destructive love that devours identity until nothing human remains. Arnie dies embracing the machine that replaced him.