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The Strawberry.

posted 14 years ago by hypermecha
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How come when he bought all the desserts at the mall, he popped a strawberry in his mouth, savored it for a long time, swallowed and everything was fine, yet when he eats half of one his lawyer brought over his house, he has an immediate allergic shock reaction? I didn't really understand why he didn't have the same reaction to the strawberry at the mall.

Also, not to nitpick, but if he really had a food allergy to strawberries (Anaphylaxis), his throat would have closed up so he couldn't breathe, and no amount of CPR would be able to force enough oxygen into his lungs to have him just suddenly snap out of it like that. Blowing into someone's mouth who is suffering from anaphylactic shock might be able to keep them alive until the ambulance arrived and they were given an antihistimine, but in real life someone suffering an attack that acute would not just suddenly have their airway open back up, and gasp back to life. LOL...well I guess that IS nitpicking.

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[–] zee944 14 years ago

SPOILERS below

His ability to eat strawberries without allergic reactions was to show how different person he became after the accident. Eventually he changed back to his older self so he had the food allergy again.

You probably want to say that food allergy is a physical problem. It's not neccessarily true. The brain controls everything in your body, you can have allergic reactions purely on mental basis. So what has happened in the movie wasn't impossible. Also, it was a symbol. So even if it would have been impossible, that wouldn't have been the point.

[–] Mrpinkeye 13 years ago

i liked the part in history when people with allergies just died

[–] przgzr 13 years ago

I accept it as a symbol, I also accept that his allergy could have psychical basis, so when he (after the accident) felt psychically changed the allergy could have vanished.

However, I have to agree with the OP - once when he became allergic again (for symbolic reasons or due to decreasing of his psychical strength) and once when anaphylactic reaction begins there is no way that it would end the way it happened in the movie.

The ending is supposed to show his return to reality and just this fact ruins the whole idea.

(You can read more in my responses on "The first strawberry-eating scene" thread)