The film doesn't answer it. It hands it over. What you do with the question next is the only part that was ever yours.
At the end of the film it doesn't paint me as a victim or a victor — but as an observer, with the question.
Joshua Arthur · on the ending
// The instrument, turned on its maker
He ran his own name through it first.
No exception was made. JOSHUA resolves the way any word resolves — letter-sum to element to seat — and it lands on the heaviest workable metal on the table.