Black Widow came out last Friday and did what it was expected to do: bring in the money and create a discussion among fans. Unfortunately, most of those discussions were centered around the apparent plot hole at the end of the movie. Director Cate Shortland explains it all. Sort of.
If you haven't watched Black Widow yet, we must warn you that no matter how hard we tried, we found it impossible to conduct this article without any spoilers. Here is an official spoiler warning for the rest of the text. Reader discretion is advised.
Black Widow Director Cate Shortland Explains Ending's Plot Hole
We can't get to the explanation without first laying out what the plot hole is, so here goes.
After the huge battle of the Red Doom, Natasha Romanoff is left standing among the floating fortress' ruins. It's there that secretary Thaddeus Ross finds her, presumably intending to seize and arrest Black Widow for reasons set up in Captain America: Civil War.
Instead of a confrontation, we get an abrupt cut and a time jump. The audience understandably deemed that a blatant plot hole.
The movie's director Cate Shortland would be the perfect source to calm the waters on that, or so you would think. Here is what she had to say when Natasha's escape plot hole was brought up in an interview with The Wrap.
That was intentional, because we wanted to leave the question of how she would get away, rather than allow the audience to get exhausted by another fight.We wanted to leave you guys on a high with the question of how did she use her ingenuity? Because she did. And it was probably, I would say, she bargained her way out of that situation. But I don’t know.
We'll be brutally honest here. "I don't know" is not what you want to hear when you ask a director about a potential plot hole in their movie. This "explanation" settles nothing and people will 100% keep calling the scene, or lack there of, at the end of Black Widow, a plot hole.
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One would hope that it would be one of those things explained in a future Marvel movie, but the way Shortland approached the question doesn't inspire much confidence.
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