'Black Box' ending explained: Who survived in the end, Nolan or Thomas?

Black Box is Blumhouse studio's brand new Sci-Fi horror movie that released on Amazon Prime Video on October 6, 2020. movie featured Mamoudou Athie in le role as Nolan. movie told story of a man who lost his memory during a car accident. However, things get worse for him when he is forced to undergo an experimental treatment. This treatment furr makes him question reality and his own self-identity. 

Black Box's horror is mostly focused around mes of memory and loss of self-identity. Alongside Athie, movie also featured Phylicia Rash, Amanda Christine, and Tosin Morohunfola. Here is a look at ending of Black Box. 

Black Box ending explained

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Black Box tells story of Nolan, a man who has lost all his memories. Nolan undergoes a treatment that lets him relive all his past memories. This treatment helps him remember his past life in clear detail. However, reliving his memories help him discover some strange details about his life that les to a horrifying reveal. 

During first stage of treatment, Nolan is unable to recognize any faces as y are all blurred. Moreover, he is attacked by an unknown entity, forcing him to flee deeper into his memories. re he sees a woman who he thinks is his de wife. Nolan also sees a faceless man fall down a flight of stairs in a painful flashback. 

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Nolan's bror, Gary, learns that Nolan was actually brain de before he was treated by Dr Brooks. Somehow, Dr Brooks revived Nolan within just three days. In next stage of his treatment, Nolan once again sees creepy entity and a woman who he realizes is not his wife. Nolan is also able to see faces clearly now. Eventually, Nolan realizes that he is not really Nolan at all, inste, he is Dr Brooks son Thomas who died after falling down a flight of stairs. 

Dr Brooks tells Thomas that she transplanted him memories into Nolan as Nolan was completely brainde. Now in Nolan's body, Thomas decides to return to his old life. He abandons Nolan's daughter Ava as she is not really his child. Thomas n goes back to his own wife and daughter. He tries to convince m that he is really Thomas in Nolan's body, however, y refuse to believe him. 

This enrages Thomas who tries to attack m. Thomas' wife attacks him and knocks him out. When he wakes up, Thomas finds himself in Nolan's house alongside Gary and Ava. Thomas runs away from Nolan's house and goes back to Dr Brooks. Brooks revealed that Thomas went to Nolan's house because of Nolan's body instincts. Dr Brooks furr tells Thomas to kill creepy entity as it is last remnants of Nolan, who is not completely de. 

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Thomas wins his fight against Nolan and is about to kill latter. However, Thomas remembers that he died after his wife pushed him off stairs. Thomas n recalls that he was attacking his daughter, and his wife only killed him in self-defence. Thomas stops himself from killing Nolan as he realizes that he is b guy. He n moves out of Nolan's consciousness and goes into dark. 

At end of film, Nolan is back in his own body and reunited with his bror and daughter. Dr Brooks is heartbroken over loss of her son, but she still has a backup plan. Brooks retrieves Thomas' memory data and movie implies that she will try to use Black Box once again to revive her child. 

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[image source: Black Box trailer]