Why doesn Jack run up and embrace Dwan at the end of the film?
There was an earlier scene in the film where Jack tore up his contract as Kong’s handler and asked Dwan to leave Fred Wilson’s exploitative “King Kong” show with him. Dwan refused. The allure of stardom was stronger than either her pity for Kong or her love for Jack. After Kong died, Dwan is standing in the limelight yet again, at the bottom of the World Trade Center, surrounded by an audience of on-lookers and reporters. Jack had already decided that that world was not for him, and Dwan, though torn and upset, was still not willing to leave the limelight. She could have gone to Jack in the crowd, but did not. The scene of separation there illustrates the tragedy of fame vs. conscience, and signals to the viewer that Jack and Dwan’s short-lived romance was finished.
