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One underrated scene in the last 20 minutes


...was Cole and Malcom saying goodbye. It gets lost in the shuffle of the two big reveal scenes at the end, but the way Malcom says "We've said enough to each other, we need to tell things to people who are closer to us" and Cole wanting to pretend he's going to see Malcom tomorrow. Beautifully done.

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...was Cole and Malcom saying goodbye. It gets lost in the shuffle of the two big reveal scenes at the end, but the way Malcom says "We've said eno ugh to each other, we need to tell things to people who are closer to us" and Cole wanting to pretend he's going to see Malcom tomorrow. Beautifully done.

It was.

Especially when it is revealed that while Cole kinda likes to live in a fantasy world, it is Malcolm who is really being self-delusional, not realizing he is a ghost.

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"I'm not going to SEE YOU again, am I"... It's Malcolm who's in for the serious goodbye. Cole will get past this. He has his Mother and finally a life ahead of him... Not so much for Malcolm.

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If ghosts are real, an afterlife is hardly implausible. And I'm thinking that after the life he led helping people rather than making big bucks, Malcolm was headed for a promotion once he reached enough peace to tell his beloved wife farewell.

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