Movie Endings That Don't Mean What You Think
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Date: 2020-07-14
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Bill
There's a fatal flaw in this analysis of Total Recall. The movie shows us extended scenes involving action where Quaid is not present and of which he is clearly unaware. This is nonsense if all the action is taking place inside Quaid's head. This leaves two possibilities:
1. The filmmakers did this on purpose to send a clear signal to intelligent viewers that the action is real while letting the less intelligent feel clever, believing they have figured out the trick. This seems unlikely.
2. The filmmakers had no clear vision for how to make a movie that screws with your mind without cheating. They wanted viewers to be unsure whether the action was taking place in Quaid's head or in reality, and they didn't notice that the way they told the story decisively excluded the former possibility. In other words, they were just as dumb as their viewers, and just as willing to congratulate themselves on how clever they were. This possibility gets my vote.
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There's a fatal flaw in this analysis of Total Recall. The movie shows us extended scenes involving action where Quaid is not present and of which he is clearly unaware. This is nonsense if all the action is taking place inside Quaid's head. This leaves two possibilities:
1. The filmmakers did this on purpose to send a clear signal to intelligent viewers that the action is real while letting the less intelligent feel clever, believing they have figured out the trick. This seems unlikely.
2. The filmmakers had no clear vision for how to make a movie that screws with your mind without cheating. They wanted viewers to be unsure whether the action was taking place in Quaid's head or in reality, and they didn't notice that the way they told the story decisively excluded the former possibility. In other words, they were just as dumb as their viewers, and just as willing to congratulate themselves on how clever they were. This possibility gets my vote.
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Cristiano
I remember coming out of Fargo, thinking at how crystal clear was the parable made by the Cohen bros. I found it a bit in your face. With the utter idiocy shown by the characters in the greed side of the story (the sheriff is not the only one that is happy with her modest but honest life - her deputy is likewise content, in an earlier scene, and so are her acquaintances, but probably appropriate.
While I was opening my rust bucket of a car, a couple of women donning fur coats worth about ten times as much, discussed the movie - it was one of the last non-multiplexes in town, so it had to be Fargo - as they went to their brand new Range Rover.
They didn't get it - if one thinks that money is everything, as many 1-percenters do, Fargo makes no sense.
And that was a parable I did not expect to learn - the place one is in life, his or her point of view, changes the very reality they see.
Bafflingly.
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I remember coming out of Fargo, thinking at how crystal clear was the parable made by the Cohen bros. I found it a bit in your face. With the utter idiocy shown by the characters in the greed side of the story (the sheriff is not the only one that is happy with her modest but honest life - her deputy is likewise content, in an earlier scene, and so are her acquaintances, but probably appropriate.
While I was opening my rust bucket of a car, a couple of women donning fur coats worth about ten times as much, discussed the movie - it was one of the last non-multiplexes in town, so it had to be Fargo - as they went to their brand new Range Rover.
They didn't get it - if one thinks that money is everything, as many 1-percenters do, Fargo makes no sense.
And that was a parable I did not expect to learn - the place one is in life, his or her point of view, changes the very reality they see.
Bafflingly.
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Tyrant
You are incorrect about Total Recall. In the Rekall office the doctor asks the tech to punch up a memory implant program that they have. He then says, Blue sky on Mars. That's a new one.
He is NOT reading Quaid's memory. He is stating the scenario of the program that they are about to implant.
If you want a more clear tip off that the entire movie is his implanted memory simply look at the female simulation that is shown to Quaid as he is going under the anesthetic. Sleezy, demure, athletic and brunette and after they call up the program the face that appears is that of the character Melina who he actually ends up meeting on Mars during his mission.
That tells you right there that the entire movie was Quaid's memory implant and at the end he is lobotomized.
Would you please at least understand the movies before you incorrectly reference them in your videos. It seriously damages your credibility.
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You are incorrect about Total Recall. In the Rekall office the doctor asks the tech to punch up a memory implant program that they have. He then says, Blue sky on Mars. That's a new one.
He is NOT reading Quaid's memory. He is stating the scenario of the program that they are about to implant.
If you want a more clear tip off that the entire movie is his implanted memory simply look at the female simulation that is shown to Quaid as he is going under the anesthetic. Sleezy, demure, athletic and brunette and after they call up the program the face that appears is that of the character Melina who he actually ends up meeting on Mars during his mission.
That tells you right there that the entire movie was Quaid's memory implant and at the end he is lobotomized.
Would you please at least understand the movies before you incorrectly reference them in your videos. It seriously damages your credibility.
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Anon
Hmmmm.
You were able to glean and ascertain all of that philosophical drivel from the final bed scene in Fargo, were you.
You got ALL OF THAT from Frances McDormand saying, Heck Norm, you know, we're doin' pretty good. ?
(SIDENOTE: To MY ear, it sounded like she said Norm, not Normie, as the caption that you wrote indicated. She always called him Norm throughout the movie. Why would she start calling him Normie at the very end--which sounds totally lame and dorky, anyway)
Either someone is an absolute genius in reading between the lines, and seeing the subtle yet powerful message at the end of the movie---
OR.
someone is full of themselves (and full of something else, too, and is shamelessly willing to put themselves on public display about it, to boot.
(If I had to bet on it, I would suspect the latter to be the case)
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Hmmmm.
You were able to glean and ascertain all of that philosophical drivel from the final bed scene in Fargo, were you.
You got ALL OF THAT from Frances McDormand saying, Heck Norm, you know, we're doin' pretty good. ?
(SIDENOTE: To MY ear, it sounded like she said Norm, not Normie, as the caption that you wrote indicated. She always called him Norm throughout the movie. Why would she start calling him Normie at the very end--which sounds totally lame and dorky, anyway)
Either someone is an absolute genius in reading between the lines, and seeing the subtle yet powerful message at the end of the movie---
OR.
someone is full of themselves (and full of something else, too, and is shamelessly willing to put themselves on public display about it, to boot.
(If I had to bet on it, I would suspect the latter to be the case)
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Cory
Rocky - although he lost against apollo, when they ask what he was thinking at the bell, he screams, Adrian! That's what he was thinking of at the bell. She loses her hat on the way to the ring to finalize her becoming comfortable with herself ( she loses layers of clothing and her glasses throughout the movie. Finally, the last shot is her hugging rocky. This symbolizes the championship belt. Rocky didn't care if he won, he only wanted to prove to himself that he could go the distance. The championship belt is Adrian hugging him
The best scene in Rocky is when he is has Adrian in his apartment and is trying to woo her. It's exactly like a boxing match. He chases her around the room, gets her in the corner and then a double knockout with the kiss.
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Rocky - although he lost against apollo, when they ask what he was thinking at the bell, he screams, Adrian! That's what he was thinking of at the bell. She loses her hat on the way to the ring to finalize her becoming comfortable with herself ( she loses layers of clothing and her glasses throughout the movie. Finally, the last shot is her hugging rocky. This symbolizes the championship belt. Rocky didn't care if he won, he only wanted to prove to himself that he could go the distance. The championship belt is Adrian hugging him
The best scene in Rocky is when he is has Adrian in his apartment and is trying to woo her. It's exactly like a boxing match. He chases her around the room, gets her in the corner and then a double knockout with the kiss.
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Dan
I'm not quite convinced about Total Recall's dream ending meaning.
I've heard that theory plenty of times, and while it absolutely makes plenty of sense, I have one issue with it. If it is actually all his implanted dream and mental breakdown, we shouldn't be able to see any of the other interactions with Cohagen, Richter, or the others. We should really only see what's going on around Quaid, if it's supposed to be all in his head. He wouldn't know what's going on with all the other players, so we shouldn't either. Conversations that happen that he wasn't a part of, or present for wouldn't really come into play, as his fantasy character wouldn't be aware. unless they're actually real.
Just my thought on this.
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I'm not quite convinced about Total Recall's dream ending meaning.
I've heard that theory plenty of times, and while it absolutely makes plenty of sense, I have one issue with it. If it is actually all his implanted dream and mental breakdown, we shouldn't be able to see any of the other interactions with Cohagen, Richter, or the others. We should really only see what's going on around Quaid, if it's supposed to be all in his head. He wouldn't know what's going on with all the other players, so we shouldn't either. Conversations that happen that he wasn't a part of, or present for wouldn't really come into play, as his fantasy character wouldn't be aware. unless they're actually real.
Just my thought on this.
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Liquidazot
Shutter island is wrongly interpretated. He was an agen former us army soldier. But they brain wash him to keep him at island. Movie talks about islanf runn by former nazies testing mind control technic to make people do what they wish to. To take over the us after lose 2ww. Movie is made such twisted way so viewers can be brainwashed to what is real what is not. It was so well made that allmoust evry one fall in this trap. The last sentence in the movie main character directs to his partner who is a monster taking part in this monsterous proceder. If you dont catch it. The cigarets at the begining explain evrything.
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Shutter island is wrongly interpretated. He was an agen former us army soldier. But they brain wash him to keep him at island. Movie talks about islanf runn by former nazies testing mind control technic to make people do what they wish to. To take over the us after lose 2ww. Movie is made such twisted way so viewers can be brainwashed to what is real what is not. It was so well made that allmoust evry one fall in this trap. The last sentence in the movie main character directs to his partner who is a monster taking part in this monsterous proceder. If you dont catch it. The cigarets at the begining explain evrything.
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Cory
Fargo - apparently the money jerry lost is in the purse of the hookers at the bar. Symbols - the blinds in jerry's office could also be seen as prison bars. They meet at 'King of Clubs' at the beginning, but some lights are out, so it reads 'king clu' The storm at the beginning and the snow on the tv represent that the story is still unclear as to how it would turn out. However, Mcdormand's tv is clear, like her mind. In addition, the snow gradually melts through the movie as the ending becomes more clear until finally the last snowblower passes by just before the arrest jerry.
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Fargo - apparently the money jerry lost is in the purse of the hookers at the bar. Symbols - the blinds in jerry's office could also be seen as prison bars. They meet at 'King of Clubs' at the beginning, but some lights are out, so it reads 'king clu' The storm at the beginning and the snow on the tv represent that the story is still unclear as to how it would turn out. However, Mcdormand's tv is clear, like her mind. In addition, the snow gradually melts through the movie as the ending becomes more clear until finally the last snowblower passes by just before the arrest jerry.
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Sailor
Regarding Get Out: But Chris did end the horror of what was happening in the movie, at least from it happening anymore. It wasn't like the old white people had the skill to transfer their own brains into the bodies of talented black guys - only that one doctor was capable of doing it. And Chris killed him. In fact, Chris killed everyone involved in the body snatching. Now all he had to do was take flash pictures of any victims who were left and they'd start wearing clothes from this century again. I think you were really stretching it by putting this movie on this list.
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Regarding Get Out: But Chris did end the horror of what was happening in the movie, at least from it happening anymore. It wasn't like the old white people had the skill to transfer their own brains into the bodies of talented black guys - only that one doctor was capable of doing it. And Chris killed him. In fact, Chris killed everyone involved in the body snatching. Now all he had to do was take flash pictures of any victims who were left and they'd start wearing clothes from this century again. I think you were really stretching it by putting this movie on this list.
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