Ending?

I believe he is still waking up stuck in the loop because he's become an addict all over again. When you're addicted, the people around you see it as a repeating day- over and over and over. All you want to do is get that high, and you'll do ANYTHING to get it. These three are recovering drug addicts with an opportunity to make things right. Two out of the three make it right - not being addicted anymore, there fore out of the loop.

Kyle loses his mind and wants to take advantage of the loop, just like an addict- they will take advantage of anything as long as it benefits them.

I think the ending represents the monotony of addicted and how it's just a day on repeat for them.

Kyle wakes up on the same day because he's still addicted, still going through the motions, not changing anything.

its Thursday. the two made amends and continue on there 12 steps and weeks is stuck on Thursday till he can reconcile. its like the movie resets on Thursday so that even in weeks universe mike and Sonia are "cured". everymorning he will have an angry mike after him that will only remember what happened on Wednesday. the real plot hole in this movie is that 2 of the 3 addict main characters or 66.6% quit using when real rehab statistics show a 90% failure rate.

The loop was until the 3 of them talked to their relatives, so, when finally Kyle talked to his sister and Sonia talked to her father, it was over (Michael talked to his father the "first" Wednesday)

Now, for some reason, Michael it's repeating Thursday.

Before he committed suicide he said he would never make amends with his father, ever. So he is of choice forever stuck in his world alone. He thrived and enjoyed tormenting his other two "time" captives, so to speak, but it brings to mind the question of will it be the same with him alone refusing to ever change, or has he doomed himself to an internal prison of his own choice. That's what I get from it.

Why can't people enjoy a film anymore.... If a film doesn't lay things out in absolutes, people throw the term "plot holes".
Open to interpretations does not equal plot hole.
Repeaters is a good film, well made and the end fits perfectly.
People just need to watch and engage their brains.

The wide shot of the location prior to seeing Weeks in bed seems to indicate that he's back in rehab. There isn't an obvious fence, towers, guards or barbed wire to indicate that it's a prison, and we can see a school bus parked there too, rather than a prison bus. Furthermore, Weeks is woken up with a knock on a door, and someone shouting "Wake up Weeks, another day in paradise." If he was in a prison cell there would be no door to knock on. So it looks like any theories suggesting Weeks is in jail are wrong.

So it seems we're back to Wednesday again in the rehab center. I can only surmise that all three individuals must face their pasts in order to move forward. Perhaps the progress of the other two was enough to temporarily move time forward, but Week's failure obviously resets things again.

I think a better ending would have placed Weeks in prison, shot similarly, but with a hideous scar placed on Week's face and head, indicating that his suicide failed and his life was saved. Of course, do to his crime spree, his life was saved merely to serve a life sentence in prison, where ever day is exactly the same only with no freedom. This would also reaffirm the film's narrative about the importance of "making amends" in the process of rehab. Too bad, it seems like a totally missed opportunity.

It works for me:

Thursday was the POV of the two that left the loop (kyle & Sonia) - or even one of them (e.g. kyle) if you want to believe that each person's POV is a different film or universe or whatever. Weeks is still repeating so either the film could have him disappear completely - and we see him repeat - indicating he can't progress until he redeems himself or we split off and have 2 alternative timelines to allow us a more kick ass finale - which we got.

From Kyle's POV that never happened and he wakes up on Wednesday...


however now i think about it there is an interesting concept here because Kyle will eventually redeem himself even if it takes a billion billion tries - it will happen and when it does he will go into a DIFFERENT Thursday to Kyle and Sonia. maybe where they're are best mates or something.

their choices will affect their future - which i guess is what the film is about.



Another interesting idea is maybe Sonia said goodbye to her father on day one and went to her own thursday which we never saw because we just followed Kyle's timeline


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