Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio: Ending and Post-Credit Scene Explained: Will Pinocchio Become Immortal?

This year, we had the opportunity to know a little more about a classic character: Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio film was just one more production among many others created around the story that is part of the affective memory of thousands of people. In the production released by Netflix, we got to know a little more about a wooden doll that is different from all the others. He was given a magical touch that made him very special. Just like a naughty child, he talks a lot, eats a lot and worst of all: he breaks rules like no other. While this represents his vitality, we know that Pinocchio is not a human. Therefore, we wonder if it will last or if it will die. The answer is at the end of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio film and you can follow it below:

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: Plot Summary

Gullermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio is set in the Italy of the 1930s, that of fascism, in a town where the Duce’s effigies are all over the walls, and the priest and the podestà, a fascist hierarch, are in charge. Pinocchio is created by Geppetto, who has just lost a son and believes in this way to replace him. But, while Geppetto realizes that he cannot be the child who is no longer there, the priest and the fascist see Pinocchio as a “dissident”, a “free thinker”. The story of the iconic wooden puppet has been told in so many ways, all of which are quite similar to each other. It is therefore important that the vision of del Toro and Gustafson emerges in an ocean, at least recently, of great creative flattening.

Netflix’s new Pinocchio is faithful only from the outset to the original material by Carlo Collodi, and in any case, it takes up some classic stylistic features – characters and general situations – to set up a parable about the family, but also about death and even politics, which it will only amaze older audiences, but it could even throw off those who expected a simple family film. From the beginning, the plot emphasizes some of the darkest themes that were vaguely hinted at even in the first work from the superfine pen of Collodi: the loneliness of Geppetto, a father torn apart by the pain of an unspeakable loss and slowly slipped into a paranoid and dangerous depression, following which he decides to create an artificial child by obtaining it from the wood of a pine that caused him too many dramatic memories.

Thanks to the magic of a supernatural entity, the puppet that comes to life is a lively child looking for his place in the world, trying to become a better person and follow the teachings of his grumpy father, still too devastated by the ghosts of his past. The structure of the story proceeds on classical tracks only up to a certain point, until the epic story of little Pinocchio and his companion conscience, the Jiminy Cricket, takes a drift that only partially follows the original novel while keeping faith with the main trappings of the mother story.

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Ending Explained: Will Pinocchio Become Immortal?

Before we bring a concrete answer, it is necessary to clarify that there is a difference between the world of humans and the magical world that gave life to Pinocchio. The wooden puppet has a completely different notion of vitality than we have as flesh-and-blood humans. This does not mean that Pinocchio is immune to death, quite the contrary. However, this represents how much their ability to be alive is different from ours. We have a clear example of when a car runs over it. He dies when run over, meets the spirit of Death and has a revealing encounter.

Due to the hit-and-run, he discovers that he has been sentenced to be alive forever. However, every time he has a near-death experience, the process of resuming his life slows down. Due to his antics and constant encounters with Death, he will even become familiar with the spirit that commands the underworld.

On The Verge Of Death

Due to his intimacy with Death, Pinocchio will feel confident enough to make a request to him. The puppet, Geppetto, Sebastian and Spazzatura will be on the brink of death. Pinocchio will take a while to come back to life, but he will ask to go back faster and save Geppetto. Without returning long enough, the old friend will drown and Pinocchio will lament the fact that others are not able to resurrect like him. By breaking this rule, Pinocchio discovers that he becomes mortal. Willing to save Geppetto, Pinocchio destroys the hourglass and saves the old man.

But, Pinocchio dies. A twist happens when the first spirit that gave him life appears, bringing him back. The return is consolidated when Sebastian fulfills one of his wishes and decides to ask to resurrect him. With this, Pinocchio becomes immortal again. Pinocchio, Geppetto, Sebastian and Spazzatura resume their lives, but with different paths. Only Pinocchio is immortal. Therefore, each one dies little by little, so Pinocchio has only one path: to continue venturing alone through the world.

With time on his hands, Pinocchio decides to take advantage of this opportunity. He doesn’t age, which ends up giving him all the ingredients to fully discover everything that life has to offer. After what happened to Geppetto, the only danger will be loving someone. If you love so much that you can’t handle saying goodbye, Pinocchio is doomed to become mortal. He can break the hourglass and bring this loved one back to life, which will eventually make him give up his immortality.

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio: Post Credit Scene Explained

The Story of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio begins with a narrator welcoming viewers who will follow the story, emergence and adventures of the wooden puppet. Then the audience realizes that the narrator is actually a cricket named Sebastian. Sebastian is a great traveler who has been to many, many places in his life. Now old, he decided to end his adventures in a tree that guarded a tomb, the tomb of Carlo, son of Gepetto. However, their peaceful life ends when Gepetto, drunk, cuts down the tree to make a puppet with his son’s face. 

Later, the doll ends up being brought to life by a magical spirit. Geppetto, therefore, asks Sebastian the cricket to take care of his son and guide him to the most interesting and safest adventures. In return, Geppetto offers the cricket a wish whose wish can be anything the cricket wants to ask for. Because he is so close and has followed Pinocchio’s life, it is only natural that Sebastian became the narrator of the story. And that’s when, over the course of the film, we are led to the information that Gepetto and Spazzatura died. Sebastian, on the other hand, also dies and that’s where everything comes to a head. 

The Final Scene

The news of Sebastian’s death is given in a cricket scene with the Black Rabbits in the Underworld. There, Sebastian is playing cards with the four Black Rabbits who are sitting outside Death’s door. One of them asks Sebastian to stop talking and play his card. When telling the story of Pinocchio to the Black Rabbits in the Underworld, it is clear that by the time Sebastian welcomes viewers at the beginning of the feature, he was, in fact, already dead. Toward the end of his life, therefore, Sebastian became a storyteller in the Underworld.