The film ends by Manny saving himself the way he first saved Hank.
He started trying to take Manny’s corpse back and set it free once and for all. He confessed to Sara, who had no idea he existed before, that he never really liked her she just seemed so happy and he was not. He started speaking up for himself and facing his fears. Hank started to finally get out of his bubble at the moment Manny preferred death. Some interpretations say that Manny was just a hopeless hallucination from Hank’s lonely mind. Strangely enough, that house turns out to be Sara’s house and the girl is her daughter. Seeing how the first other real human he meets can’t really handle how strange he is, Manny preferred to return back to the way he originally was without all those feelings running through in his chest and he goes back to being just a lifeless corpse. Manny acts normally a he is used to and the girl couldn’t tolerate how queer he was and she stared crying. After a while, they see a house and the first individual they run into is a little girl. Hank explained that these memories are his, they are all things he couldn’t pursue, he didn’t have the courage to. Swiss army man explained part 3: The ending Then, Manny experienced pain for the first time when Hank unraveled that all the memories implanted in Hank’s mind are actually his. How they let everything control them till they get completely drained and he starts questioning internally if he really wants to remember. He finds it absurd that people live in fear of almost everything even of themselves. After every story, Manny starts growing less interested in life. Also, he tells him about his inability of remembering his deceased mother without associating her with a specific memory, so he chooses not to. He narrates more about the fear his father inherently has. He tells him about his own father and how he is incapable of displaying affections. The more Hank tells Manny more about his relations with his friends, his father, and his mother the less interested Manny becomes in the outside world. Sara, the girl Manny remembers is actually a person Hank never knew but wanted to. All the colors and things a person sees throughout their lives, all the experience they accumulate and Manny starts imagining the world as a beautiful place. He starts explaining life from his eyes and it is beautiful in the start. Moreover, instead of remembering his own memories Manny remembers Hank’s memories. So, he starts by helping Manny regain his memories as a living human being and whenever he remembers something, whenever feelings ignite inside of his chest, strangely enough, his organs start to work. Manny’s abilities start to unfold slowly and consequently Hank starts believing that Manny is there to guide him out. Manny finds it strange to hide his farts as Hank tells him, he finds it strange that people have to hide things all the time, although these things are normal and a part of us all he finds it strange that people can’t normally be themselves around other people. Swiss army man explained part 2 : Signs of life He starts seeing the world through Hank’s eyes, revealing to us and to Hank himself how silly the world is and our coping mechanisms. Manny, the dead corpse, starts slowly as the film unravels, going back to life. Furthermore, He wakes up the next day to find Manny, enough, able to speak. Knowing very well that he won’t be judged, he talked with ease. There, Manny starts addressing the dead corpse out of his desperate need for company. They soon hide in a cave waiting for the rain to end. After exploring the place he found different things indicating that other people were formerly present there and that normal life is near.
He starts discovering the island and takes Manny along in case he needs his powers again. He couldn’t believe he was saved by a farting corpse. When they finally reach shore, Hank starts dancing out of happiness.
In other words, they wanted to transfer something so disgusting, as a fart, into a more meaningful thing.
When asking the directors about the idea behind the movie they said that they wanted to depict everything that people normally hate and depict a different angle of these things. He literally rides Manny’s body through the water to a different destination, as silly as that sounds. On Losing hope again and completing his second attempt of ending his own life, he saw Manny, depicted by Daniel Kwan, farting heavily and an idea sparked in his head. Ironically, the body’s only response to Hank’s words was by farting which he attributed to some excess gases in his dead body. He quickly runs to see if that creature has come to rescue him, only to find that he is dead. On his second attempt, he saw a body suddenly appearing on the shore. The film opens with Hank Thompson, depicted by Paulo, in that deserted island trying to commit suicide, but failing miserably.