I realise that the journey through the night was a way for the family to deal with their trauma, but what do you think the ending means? i.e. when they're all walking on the beach, it seemed to me that they were heading in different directions, are they or am I misreading it?
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I interpreted it as if they where going to go seperate ways from there on, but maybe that' just me =)
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my take on the end. when the son's girlfriend and her male friend get on the bus, a horn honks and the family turns to the bus. all of them look at the bus. the daughter waves goodbye. i feel this is symbolic of the family getting a chance to say goodbye to their son (brother). the girl who comes to visit is the last part of their son. the family together is allowed to say goodbye to her, and in doing so, they are saying goodbye to their son (brother). the family walking toward the water (the son died in water), is symbolic of the family facing what happend to the son, and moving forward. for them to be walking toward the water, shows them confronting the death of their son (brother). they all dealt with the death in their own seperate way, but here they are walking on the same beach, walking separately, but they made the trip together (bringing the two teens to france), and here they are together walking in the same direction (that direction being, them healing, from the death of their son (brother). just my thoughts.
But why did the father wonder whetherthe guy would really be her boyfriend or not?
sharegood point edawee...
real flaim ,i think their son would be of the same age as stefano (the boyfriend) and my view is that stefano would have appeared to them as an image of their son...
That was also my interpretation of their final journey. I think that is why the father asks his wife if Stefano and Arianna are having a relationship and when she is about to answer he says "don't say it". They imagine how it would have been with their son and his girlrfriend.
shareman, i'm lame. just reading these interpretations is making me choke up a little. they're all very good.
solid movie. a little too realistic, tough to swallow.
To me, the end means life goes on, just as Arianna has moved on with her new boyfriend.
It doesn't mean she doesn't love Andrea anymore, but that she is ready to continue to live her life and so is the family.
My interpretation is that the girl's new boyfriend is a surrogate for Andrea.
The parents unconsciously associate Andrea's "sweetness" with that of the boyfriend. By concentrating on a special quality of his, they effectively turn attention away from what the mother had earlier identified as their selfish attachments: the father for his patients and the guilt he feels for his absence that night and the daughter for her basketball preparation.
They release their son by allowing the boyfriend to drive off with the girl (belated appreciation for what he would have wanted) and no longer privately absorbed in grief, they comfort each other in it. Or perhaps they are already over the worst of the grief and learn to cherish their time together. The father finally makes time for his family, while earlier he neglected the son as he spent more time listening to his patients. Note: the family didn't understand the son very well and didn't know about his girlfriend.
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I thought the ending was too beautiful and calm to mean father, mother and daughter were separating and moving in different directions. There are a number of interpretations on this thread with which I agree. Taking Arianna and Stefano to the French border, which was at such a beautiful sight early morning as the sun rises, is wholly positive and healing for me as viewer to their grief.
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