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The last line in the movie


I need help with interpreting the last line in the movie. I get the whole clock ticking thing, but not the "But only a little bit, right?", or I forget the exact quote, when the mom said she could still hear it. I've been thinking about it, but I just feel that all my ideas are wrong.

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My kind of wild interpretation is that the clock represents the anxiety over future, over time, over who's getting what done and how. It represents the anxiety over Aura's future, and thanks to their relationship, that anxiety has now been reduced. This might not be what the director intended, though.

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Thanks! I like that. That is close, but much better than what I was thinking.

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I liked the movie, but I just thought it was one of those inexplicable endings that is supposed to seem deep from afar, but is actually shallow on closer inspection.

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I thought it drove the point home that the main character doesn't fix problems, only pushes them to the periphery where they can be more easily managed.

Aimlessness of youth is nothing new in post-industrial societies. This was a decent and funny treatment of it IMO.

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My take is that people overthink this. If this scene had occurred earlier in the film, would it need to be "interpreted"? I believe she intends this entire film to be a slice of this young woman's life, and the ending is simply the last moment in her life that we get to see before the credits roll. Nothing more, nothing less.

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