I might have missed something (in fact, it's very likely that it was something really obvious), but anyway-- what is the significance of the postcard on top of the bundle of mail that came thru the slot at the very end? I was sitting there thinking, "That had to be important; it was the last shot," but I didn't have enough pieces to put together. Can anybody help?
shareIt showed him writing her (his sister Sam) the post card at the beginning before the viewer knew who it was. Then when he asked if she'd gotten it, she said no, and that post cards take longer. The last scene was the post card dropping through her mail slot in her door after he had died.
sharespoiler alert. thanks. i was just trying to figure out if i missed something by not knowing what the postcard said.
shareYou really need to be better at judging the possible contents of a thread if you're this worried about spoilers. If you opened a thread about, say, filming locations, or whether the movie was available on Netflix or something, and someone told you key plot points, that would be different.
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What I hope you mean is, "why might the director have decided to dwell on this postcard in the last shot"?
Because we see Dwight buy the postcard, ask a sales clerk for stamps, write on the back of the postcard, mail the postcard, and then ask his sister about it; so if you got to the end without knowing the postcard existed....
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I understood OP's post fine. I don't get why nobody else seemed to and proceeded to explain where the postcard came from.
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