It can mean either of those two things or probably a hundred other things.
To me, that's the beauty of the ending. If I want to imagine Tony lying dead, face down in a bowl of onion rings, his family looking on, mouths agape, I can.
If you want to imagine him living to 80 years old with the ducks returning to his pool, then it's your right.
It was very clever.
Fair enough, fair enough. A number of things could have happened. Maybe nothing happened. I guess it's up to us the viewer. But then again isn't it always up to us? Yes, it is.
