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Movie should have ended at the freeze frame kiss

posted 12 years ago by Jimbo_BSD
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Forget about all the arguments of parallel universes and all that other mumbo jumbo. The freeze when they kiss and the camera pans to show everybody laughing was a very cinematic ending to the story. Maybe add in the part of Farminga in the locked room terminating the program with the scientist slamming on the door.

I don't care to discuss the plausibility of science in the film, or the ramifications of what it really means, yada yada yada.

The freeze frame kiss was a great moment. It was tragic and beautiful at the same time. I thought it was a more satisfying conclusion.

Overall I liked the movie and rated it 7/10. I had my second viewing today and am sticking with that rating.

[–] SorroVV 9 years ago

100% agreed
Happy ending, drama, some philosophy and tragedy would be in this ending.
Original ending isn't bad, though. It's just... a cliche?
Born2Burn

[–] SorroVV 9 years ago

100% agreed
Happy ending, drama, some philosophy and tragedy would be in this ending.
Original ending isn't bad, though. It's just... a cliche?
Born2Burn

[–] MisterSky 9 years ago

HOLY SH!T YES. I honestly thought it was going too. Such a beautiful ending that would have been. All the extra stuff after that ruined it for me. They tried to end on a positive note almost but it just left me very underwhelmed personally.

[–] adorzoya 9 years ago

I agree with this!

I watched this movie yesterday, and was totaly confused with the ending. As so many people here on the board :)

The parallel universe theory doesn't make sense to me. Entire film is based on the concept of his brain (or his mind) playing tricks on him - he thinks he is in a capsule, he can investigate what happened on the train because his brain (together with the computer) can create different versions of the events.
They constantly repeat to him that everything is fake and it doesn't matter what he does because it's a simulation.

If they were creating paralel universes, then why did he had to die every time after 8 minutes, even if he went off the train?
I think the simulation where he was run over by the train proves that parallel universe theory is not right.

After the ending, the only logical explanation for me is that he's dead, and we see some afterlife sequences - so maybe the point is that the afterlife depends on the last minutes of our life (our brain plays tricks on us until the very last second).

[–] KeanuMeansLove 9 years ago

Agreed but because this movie is so intense and emotionally powerful, a lot of people probably hoped for a more optimistic conclusion that wasn't as depressing. I can completely relate to that point of view as well, of wanting to know that the main character is going to be fine and that isn't the end for him.

[–] mywhychromosome 8 years ago

Okay so, I just saw this movie the other night, and thought EXACTLY the same thing as many others that the movie was going to end there(the way they shot it definitely gives you that feeling, and I have to assume that was on purpose). In any case, a lot of the things I had to say about it have already been said, so I won't bother, BUT...something nobody seems to mention, or discuss, is about the "other universe" Colter...he's still a disemboweled torso, alive on life support, with his brain hooked up to a machine...sure, because the disaster has been averted (which I also don't understand, since why is the text he sent in the 'alternate universe', where he was sent via source code, reaching the OTHER one where he...hasn't been sent there to save the day, but somehow the day has been saved??, but either way, it's almost worse because now he's locked in some horrible purgatory. Unless it's supposed to be the 'dreaming' Colter that's experiencing the ending??

EDIT: By 'other' universe, I mean the one we see Goodwin in at the very end, looking at Colter's remains in the box...that whole part is very confusing, actually, now that I think about it...are we supposed to assume Colter will go through this again and again...no, right, because the text message changed it?

[–] armensog 8 years ago

My thoughts exactly. Instead of finishing off a movie as art, they *beep* it up with stupid "happy" ending.