Earlier, Jeff Bridges tells Rosie Perez that he watched his partner get decapitated. But later, in flashbacks, we see that Jeff Bridges got out of his seat to move up a few rows to sit with the boy who was by himself.
shareProbably because he saw his business partners body after the crash?
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Maybe he saw his headless partner's body after the plane was down, when they walked out of the plane. (Or at least he could have been told later that his partner had been decapitated.) And I believe he DID move up to sit with the kid. If everybody in the front area had died, how would the kid have been alive later to show up outside Max's home, and be there on Thanksgiving? I know what that one survivor said, and they could be partially right, not totally right. Maybe the front area was the most damaged, but it didn't mean ALL were killed in that area. That person could have been sitting somewhere where she couldn't have seen the front. In an event as traumatic as that, one's memories won't be expected to be 100%. There will be inevitably be alot of confusion, conflicting accounts.
shareI'm not sure that he actually did. He says that in the scene when the lawyer wants him to lie about witnessing the suffering of his partner during the crash.
The beheading could have been known to all after the fact. Just a thought.
He still could make eye contact with him before the crash. If that were you, wouldn't you be curious to know what happened to your friend, right after the crash?
Did he say he saw it happen or that he saw what happened? He knew it happened, regardless.
As an aside: Check out jerry schemmel's story... they used his crash experience for bridge's character.
http://www.thrivenet.com/articles/oprahsty.shtml
I don't think he said that he saw it.
shareReally? Out of this whole movie, THAT"S what you come up with? REALLY?
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He didn't actually move up & sit with the boy in real life. If he had, he would have died. If you'd paid attention to the movie, in the discussion group, one of the survivors mentioned that the entire front of the plane was utterly destroyed, "disintegrated," I think she said, and that no one up front lived. If Max had actually gone up front to sit with the boy he would be dead.
That "vision," although it took on the aspects of a flashback, was supposed to be connected to the strawberry incident at the end. In the vision, after he goes up & sits with the boy, and the plane pulls apart, we then see him holding hands with the boy, walking out the hole in the plane (notice there are no seats - the plane would not have been intact with simply NO seats like that, for real) into a bright light as he's dying from the allergic reaction to the strawberry. It's just a surreal "could have been" scenario, and it's not meant to be taken literally. It's meant to show a moment where he's at a point where he has to decide if he should go on toward the light, or go back to life with his son & wife, and he makes the decision to come back.
I think when he was really on the plane, he may have looked up & saw the boy by himself, and considered going up to sit with him, but didn't, because his friend needed him just as much.
American movies are always so literal that I think the American audience always assumes that everything shown to them in a movie was something that literally happened, even if it's a surreal vision or dream. Just like our own dreams that don't always, if ever, make literal sense, don't take stuff like that in movies so literally. Sometimes surreal scenes are meant to be symbolic, interpreted more loosely by the audience so there may possibly be more than one meaning.
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Ok, but by your interpretation, if the boy indeed was at the front of the plane then he would be dead. We know that he is not considering he follows Jeff Bridges around the whole movie because he saved him.
I agree that the flashback is partly a vision, however it is also his memories. Therefore, I think he did move to sit with the boy, probably saw his partner had been decapitated at some point as he was walking around outside after the crash. All we have to know is that he knows, it doesn't matter how.
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I thought that because he moved to be with the boy he lived and if he had stayed with his partner he would have died. Now I am confused about this sequence...
shareAnother possibility is that the boy's seating position - directly behind the cockpit bulkhead - was simply a continuity error. Weir clearly designed that scene as a vehicle for the audience (and Max) to see the moments before the crash from the pilots' vantage point. This scene unnecessarily contradicts statements made during the survivors meeting regarding destruction of front portion of plane. Thus, a continuity error. At least that's the way I see it.
Even if the scene were totally imagined, there's simply no reason to break continuity unless it serves some other purpose. This sort of error is common since the director isn't (nor should be) worried about a few wingnuts like me who notice such things.