Mea Culpa Ending Explained: What Happens to Mea in the Wild Netflix Movie?

If you’ve seen the movie and are wondering what you just watched, read on for a full recap and final explanation of Mea Culpa.

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We begin with Mea’s unhappy home life where she suspects her husband, a drug addict who recently lost his job, of infidelity. Relations are not much better with his terminally ill mother-in-law who seems to resent his very existence. Mea’s brother-in-law, Ray, is also a prosecutor.

She then meets Zyair in his office where he is commanding and authoritative and is to be tried for the murder of his girlfriend. Importantly, no body was ever found, but brain fragments were in one of his paintings and his blood had seeped into an apartment below. He appears to be the only possible killer and does not exactly behave like an innocent man, but vehemently professes his innocence.

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Mea takes the affair and quickly seems seduced by the overtly sexual Zyair as her own marriage falters. He tries to seduce her but she rejects him and they take turns trying to separate professionally before agreeing to pursue the affair.

Mea and Zyair finally have sex in an elaborate surreal sequence in her art studio in which they are both covered in paint.

The guilt of adultery begins to crush Mea and she leaves Zyair as both client and lover.

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Mea admits to having slept with Zyair to her husband in front of her entire family who, led by her crazy mother, banish her from their house.

There is then a sudden interruption of Mea vacationing in the Dominican Republic as a news report reports that Zyair has accepted a plea deal and the case will not go to trial.

Shortly afterwards, and rather absurdly, Mea sees a hotel maid who looks exactly like the woman Zyair allegedly killed, with the lawyer now believing that his client-turned-lover was innocent after all. And it turns out she’s the woman thought dead, leading Mea to sense a conspiracy.

Mea returns to her husband’s home where she discovers one of Zyair’s paintings in a closet of her sister Charlise’s, meaning she also slept with the artist while he painted the women he had had sexual relations.

Things then start to get really crazy as Mea gets locked out by Ray and her mother-in-law as the atmosphere becomes tense.

Her husband’s mother then reveals that she had been faking her cancer all this time and was never even diagnosed and that the whole plot was part of a plot to help Ray win favor with the town to run for mayor, thinking winning a high-profile case would do it. make it popular with Chicagoans.

It was his idea to convict Zyair of murder from the start so that he could simultaneously boost his notoriety and get revenge on his adulterous partner.

It then starts in the kitchen as Ray attempts to kill Mea, first by poisoning her with wine, then guns are drawn, kitchen knives are brandished and frying pans are thrown.

As Mea and Chalise try to escape the house, Charlise is stabbed while Mea walks to the car.

Ray and her mother desperately try to stop her, but she manages to escape after crashing the car – appearing to kill her stepmother with the impact.

Fleeing on foot, Mea’s husband Kal sees her and picks her up and seems confused by what is happening and calls the police. Only he doesn’t do it. He calls his brother instead, revealing his explicit participation in the complicated project.

Fearing for her life again, Mea swerves the car into an oncoming truck which kills Kal.

A report later reveals that Ray was arrested and charged with a number of offenses as the scheme came to light.

The final shots show that Zyair, in reality completely innocent, is exonerated and he gives a brief press conference outside the court where he thanks Mea for her help.

She watches from the shadows when she receives a text from the artist asking her to meet, but instead she throws her phone in the trash, ready to start her life again.

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