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LOST all over again...

posted 9 years ago by laplante-co-672-297856
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Just watched this and the final scene had me flashing back to LOST...

In LOST's final ep we learn that everyone is dead at the end. And ever since there has been lots of argument and speculation that the LOSTies all died in the original plane crash. The island and all their adventures were just part of an elaborate near/post-death experience.

(No, Christian does NOT say the island was real. His ambiguous reply doesn't mention the island at all so please don't bore me again with that nonsense.

And, YES, I know that the producers/writers insist that it was all real. Again please don't bother me with that argument either. They BS'd in interviews several times thru the series' run and even Cuse mentioned recently that the end is open to interpretation...)

So, here we have the exact same arguments. Did he die at the beginning and the rest was just a dying dream?

The similarities:

1. The boy who killed him appears in his post-death fantasy. In LOST, polar bears appear on the island after appearing in a comic book being read by one of the passengers. Jack dies in the same glade at the same spot as when his body hit the ground (and died) at the beginning of the series, etc.

2. Time travel and fate figures heavily in both tales.

3. This movie features a locker that somehow is imbued with time travel capabilities. This magical element is possible evidence that the entire story is a dream.

LOST features a island that can travel through space and time via an old-school uncalibrated donkey wheel. This would be impossible from a geological/oceanographic standpoint indicating that the island is some sort of Oz-like world -- possible evidence that it's not happening in reality but as part of a dream. (Tons more stuff suggests that the island isn't a real place, but you get my point...)

4. The ambiguous ending -- the light that floods the interior of the car as the scene fades -- is similar to the scene of Christian opening the doors to the light. In both cases the characters are literally 'going toward the light' in their final moments of consciousness.

There are probably others if you care to look for them..

[–] dragos_matei_serban 9 years ago

Don't know if you're trying ti imply that the producers/ director got his inspiration from "Lost". but both that show and this movie are some of the best pieces of fiction I have ever seen. I'm glad I was fortunate enough to watch them in this life and to experience the emotion and questioning the have brought me

My ratings are not always like the IMDB average score because I only enjoy intelligent movies.

[–] Madness20 9 years ago

Full stop. Is op really making a point that the Jacket is based on lost, when last "Lost" season and most of his points where revealed much later than the Jacket's release? Wouldn't instead be lost which had some inspiration on the Jacket???

[–] prplayer 9 years ago

i also thought of Lost while watching this, basically all the episodes with Desmond

so many movies, so little time

[–] rowla 9 years ago

**LOST SPOILERS**

OP; Dude, hate to burst your bubble, but not matter how "open to interpretation" you want Lost's ending to be, it simply isn't. It's actually rather blatantly wrapped up.

Sure, they all meet up when they each die, but that doesn't mean they all died on the island. It is conveyed that time has no meaning in the afterlife, so no matter how, where or when each person dies, they will eventually all unite with those closest to them in the same moment to go to heaven together.

And again, hate to break it to you, but I'm afraid *the writers of the show* are correct.. Because the island is very much a real place. There's even a bonus episode after the last one, where Hurly and Ben visit Walt to bring him back to the island. It's there, man. It's a strange, magical place where everything is not what it seems, yes, but they're there.. and they're definitely not dead while they're there.