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Decent Movie 3.5 / 5, missing a few answers though... (Spoiler)

posted 10 years ago by moymike-162-420930
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Okay, the biggest question in my mind as I watched this movie was ... why??

Why can they hear each other's thoughts? I figured... they are fraternal twins, separated at birth. Ewww!! I flashed back to Star Wars and Luke and Princess Leia.

The question left me hanging though. Why them? What was their connection?

The other thing, which also seemed like the next most obvious possibility was the idea that Dillon was not real. (Fight Club) This would especially make sense as Rebecca spent time in the nuthouse. It may also explain why her seemingly nice husband was both over protective of her and ditched her pictures. It would also help me get the big runaway ending, as it all played in her "crazy" mind.

I was hoping to come here to shed some light on this. Maybe somebody would point out something that proved the ending was something more than a candy coated forgettable happily ending.

Long time ago I watched a movie called "Radio Flyer". If you've seen this movie, you would know what I am talking about. They movie you are presented is not fully what happened. "Radio Flyer" does you the favor of ending without spelling it out for you, although it's obvious.

I guess "In Your Eyes", while it explored an interesting phenomenon, had no real explanation or enlightenment at it's conclusion. Missed opportunity.

[–] FangsMcWolf 10 years ago

While I agree that it never explains why them, I don't believe it was just her imagination. You saw too much of his life happening (without her) for it to be her imagination. Would be different if the only time we saw him is when she was somehow involved, but that wasn't the case.

I also don't believe they were related. There wasn't any mention of how either or both of them grew up adopted, in foster care, etc. I'm sure at some point they discussed when they were born and where they grew up. Certainly having the same birthday would have had them questioning things and if one was lied to about their birthday, certainly they would have had their suspicions and looked into it. I'm sure at some point they've each seen their respective birth certificates and would have noticed anything 'off' about them. ie, someone would have had to go through a lot of trouble to get a fake one for (him or her). In short, doubt they are related.

Would have been nice if the following had happened...
1. Somehow figured out how it happened.
2. Proved to others that it was happening. That way they know she wasn't crazy and wasn't having an affair (at least not up until the very end), but just had a very unusual bond with someone.
3. Had her husband get the snot beat out of him.

Oh well, was a rather nice movie and I'm glad I saw it.

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[–] JeopardyLeyton 10 years ago

It would have been nice to get an explanation, but I think for this they would have had to go to see someone, like a researcher or some kind of paranormal scientist, which would have taken up time. The point of the movie wasn't how it had happened, but who they changed because of it, how it enriched their lives etc.

However, I did think about how you could plausibly explain something like this - there are some theories out there that consciousness is a product of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics basically describes how things act at a tiny tiny teeny size - teeny particles don't act at all as you would expect them too from what we know of how things act on one another in our everyday lives and with classical physics. Particles can become 'entangled' with other particles at vast distances, meaning if you do something to one particle, the other one will react in the same way.

So I thought maybe, if consciousness does arise from quantum activity, then perhaps their emotional states/experiences/neural states were entangled, so that somehow when one experienced something, the other did too. Obvioulsy that's not very well thought out and probably impossible in real life, but I guess it could be a 'movie scientific-style explanation' for how they came to be connected, through just a random event on a quantum level.

[–] always_keep_fighting 10 years ago

That's actually as good an explanation as any other, and better than most. Sometimes, we just don't understand how some things work. I don't think that we are meant to. It would be a pretty boring world if everything was planned, orchestrated, understood.