"There is nothing confusing about this movie, given that everything is clearly explained at the end by the tech support guy."
Provided you choose to accept that interpretation.
On Cameron Crowe's official site, he lists six potential interpretations..
#1 – The movie is just as its explained. David commits suicide, he is frozen and the splice occurs, etc. The sound you hear is David awakening in the future.
#2 – Everything up to the car wreck was “real” and the rest of the entire film was ALL in David’s head as he lie in a coma (until the end when he wakes up).
#3 – The entire film is a dream as David struggles with his vanity, his sexual past, his ideal woman, etc. The only “real” scene in the entire film would be the last, as he wakes up.
#4 – The movie is writer Brian Shelby’s fictional story about his friend (David Aames). A story of the sour and the sweet. He plays the unsung hero to the playboy.
#5 – The whole thing is a dream in that the depictions we see take place as reflections within a dream. However, the events are real until the splice, at which time they become fiction. Tech support states that David has been asleep 125 years. David’s sessions seem to be reflections of his past. I think a fair interpretation is that the reflections have been tampered with by the subconscious to reflect his love for Sophia and the regret of his carelessness with Julie. You are relying on the unreliable narrator as to the details like his love sort of being all around him before he meets her, his fears, dates and the music. Like retelling a story that you know ends badly, you may create clues to take the edge off or tip off your subconscious that this is a reflection, a memory, not reality.
#6 – Christian Metaphors – A Story of Divinity – David commits suicide, finally driven to it by the guilt over the death of Julie Gianni. As he is dying, his life is passing before his eyes. While his life is passing before his eyes, he is also being tempted to sell his soul to the devil for the chance to make things right (i.e. the dream like utopian scenes between Sophia and David).
a. David is asked many times “Did you sign a Contract?
b. Lucid Dream, Lucifer?
c. Both women at LE have red hair.
d. Tilda Swinton has hot sauce behind her.
e. More importantly, Tilda Swinton is exactly the kind of personality you would expect the devil to have at the time of one’s death, vaguely sexy, assuring, calming, and persuasive…
The ideas of David’s Christlike-ness are from the following ideas. He dies at 33, as did Christ.. His father wrote “THE BOOK”… The book was called Defending the Kingdom… The magazine is called Rise…
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
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