Messala offers an ultimatum - be with him in helping o eliminate rebellion or against him."If that is the choice, hen I""m against you," Judah affirms.Marking him as a troublemaker, Messala breaks off their friendship abruptly.Miriam and Tirzah are saddened to hear that Messala has suddenly left their home, hearing hat he wanted to use Ben-Hur to betray their people.[The same scene of their final moments is played out another ime at the film""s downbeat conclusion - filtered by the woman""s subjective perspective in the last scene.With Wolverine""s help, the entire group (including rescued students) avoided the flooding spillway as their exit, and made it to the snowy outdoors.I told you not to look at me.(He kissed her a second time!)Sophia""s mother appeared at the top of the stairs, and suspected that the two were flirting and kissing each other ("What are you two doing? Don""t answer me.There are other nightmarish flashbacks of Joe and his girlfriend Annie.In a brutal image, they are pulled from making out in their car by enviously-jealous Texas males.An angry young Joe breaks a bathroom mirror.He finds himself back in his own flop-house hotel room, sitting in the bathtub and watching a TV show, where the host emphasizes he existential predicament that he faces: "Isn""t this really a case of conning a lot of lonely people?" Joe walks into the netherworld of New York""s Times Square, a place of desperation, futility, dashed hopes and false dreams.