Bridges IS Jesus...


I added this to another thread but figured maybe it was worth its own.
I think one interpretation of the film is that Jesus acts through Bridges character. My evidence is:
1. On the plane - he touches the hands of people and only those people survive the crash.
2. The spitting on the dirt piece, like Jesus giving sight to the blind as has been quoted elsewhere.
3. (Who spotted this?) The wound to his side - his only injury from the crash and exactly where Jesus received the spear wound on the cross.
Maybe it's just me...?

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@niall-mcmahon
#1.Not everone Bridges touches survives. He touches and is holding his business-partners hand when the plane starts a nose dive, just before moving to the boy's seat and touching everyone elses hand. Bridges business-partner dies.

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One of the arguments you're probably going to get is "If he were Jesus, he would have saved everyone". That's a good point but it's also likely that the plane crash was a sort of Judgment Day, and the ones killed in the crash weren't really the innocent victims they were made out to be. This has little relevance but there's also an allusion to the forbidden fruit.

Have you seen Breaking the Waves? There are a lot of people who think Watson's character was Christ in that movie as well; I'd be interested to see your interpretation of that.

"We're wrecking like trains."

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I wrote an essay for my film exam on the first scene of this back in December and got an A on it. A truly great film. However, while I think there are many parallels with Bridges being Jesus, I do not think he IS Jesus. Just rather another religious/philosophical figure in public sight.

And yes, I noticed the "spear" wound on his side. I was one of the few people in my class of 50 that did notice it.

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No one can prove you right, either! ;)

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yes it's just you

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"I was one of the few people in my class of 50 that did notice it."


What - another reference to this possibly being a class project?

This is the third one mentioning a class. Please, what class viewed this movie and which level of school (psychology, high school, college, etc).

What was the instructor's opinion/summation of the movie? Thanks.


ps - i didn't see a jesus analogy but did notice his appreciation for flashing or solid bright lights, just before he did something miraculous, or, ...lucking out when acting recklessly. Like, besides losing his fear on the plane when seeing a light outside the aircraft, ..and a glint of light on a window prior to blind ledge walking, ...there was a light at the top of the flagpole, just prior to him impressing that bum with his daredevil jay walking. He then taunts the top of the pole about his immunity from death. Didn't he say, "You want to kill me but you cant"? Thats a bit different a conversation than "Why have you f------ me???"

Is there an analogy for a vehicle driver braking to preserve jesus's life? (besides the old fallback "it was god's will" - no matter what happened!).

If the driver hadn't braked when he jaywalked, max's last thought could have been his realization of blowing it for not preserving at least enough fear to respect his physical limitations against a speeding auto. It would have made a shortened movie and maybe a more realistic outcome for someone who becomes fearless from ptsd.

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Here's another clue for you all; on Carla's door there is a sticker saying "Jesus is my best friend" in spanish, she later claims that Max is her best friend.

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From what I recall of the movie, I think I would have to disagree with your interpretation. The character Bridges plays is suffering from a Messiah complex, but that is not to say the movie itself is intimating he is an allusion to Christ.

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What a beautiful parallel you've drawn...:)

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