Ending? - Parallels (2015) Discussion

[–] bbnj62 10 years ago

Meant to be a pilot. Have to leave some open story lines four episodes.

As for Polly I assume three (at least) different versions of her joined the building on their respective world's they're duplicates. There may be more.

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[–] bobby-59044 10 years ago

Only my guess ...
three different pollies i think was her way of "continuing the journey to find the core planet". At one point she said to someone to only think that somewhere one of yourself is sipping miia tias on a beach. also the way she was acting when locked up thinking she was going to die. Overall i think she knows that many earths are extremely dangerous and is willing to take the chance because she is very adventurous and wants to make it to the core world; however she is also smart enough to know that the chances of only one "her" making it are slim to none. I think there would be a whole sub plot where she realizes how dangerous some earths are and then in subsequent good earths recruits a couple more of herself as "back-ups" then at each new earth they all "ro-sham-bo" to see who will take the risk/adventure this time around. If they pollie does not return then another is recruited at some future earth. also i imagine this subplot would allow for an explanation as to why no others are in the building currently .. there have been others; they either died in other earth or decided to stay and only the plural pollies have let her continue to travel.

another big stretch guess ...
the tinkerer saw nukes in the upper floor and realized that the father was annihilating other worlds; don't know why; maybe death of wife or some other crazy reason .. but definitely thought his character seemed shady.

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[–] BriankDK 10 years ago

havent seen it yet....but i want to know if it has or haent got an ending ? because if it dosent have an ending, i really dont want to waste my time seeing it....

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[–] LuciferBaggins 10 years ago

It doesnt have an ending.

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[–] bbnj62 10 years ago

It's meant as a pilot for a series. As such it leaves open plot lines to keep it going

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[–] Elfie-5 10 years ago

havent seen it yet....but i want to know if it has or haent got an ending ? because if it dosent have an ending, i really dont want to waste my time seeing it....

It does not have anything remotely like an ending. It's not bad but it literally just stops like someone ran out of tape. I found myself blinking in disbelief, wondering if something was wrong with Netflix that caused the credits to run prematurely.

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[–] manitoualpha 10 years ago

My wife and I thought the same thing.

The entire thing didn't feel like I was watching more of a tv show than a movie. While I doubt they will actually make it a series but we can hope for a Sliders replacement.

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[–] a1689 9 years ago

Do not shoot him. I need an answer from upstair.
There is an elevator.
He went up and down got shot.

I do not need answer from upstair any more.
I am leaving this building.

What happen to upstair?????

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[–] znapper 9 years ago

Explanation?

Here's one: It's a bullcrap movie, riddled with plotholes and bad writing, baked together loosely, to waste 2 hours of someones lives.

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[–] hal-9010 9 years ago

1) The Polly comes from a world of cloned robots (she was clean and neat and yet had been riding the house for a long time plus she did not want the hero to buy food at that food shop; in other words she is a robot) and those three Pollies simply stumbled into the building like our three friends did at one time. They did not come clean because they simply were there to have fun with the other... You get to be like that if time/age is no issue. They were not evil but they had sort of accepted their destiny of being "lost" travelers.

2) There were no answers up stair and the old man saw this. He was killed because the "dad" saw he was too dangerous to leave running around. The dad was fighting a war in the parallel worlds, against a force from world zero who wanted to end all worlds permanently. The house is one way of crossing but not the only way. He needed his kids to help him find their mother while he fought the zero world army. And he needed them to leave our world as he knew this was next in line to be destroyed, and likely was...

The black thing would automatically react once they would enter the world of the mother and signal to him. Once they would find the mother he would unite all his family to the resistance against the earth zero tyranny. The mother has the secret plans to destroy the death star or something. Voila.

Any other questions?

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[–] dayvit78 9 years ago

Yea... my question is where did you get all that information from?

1) How can you say Polly was a robot when she wanted to bang both Harold and Ronan?

2) Seems plausible based on what we see in the movie, but what's the point of finding the mother? Does she have any special powers? Does the dad? Why is the dad so young looking - he looks late 30's yet he has two 20+ year old children.

3) How do you know the black thing would react? Ronan accidentally started to activate it in the original world.

All you did was open up a ton of new questions.

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[–] hal-9010 9 years ago

Yea... my question is where did you get all that information from?

Obviously the movie does not spell this out to us and so for this reason we end up having these wonderful conversations.

However, my deductions are just my own feeble attempts to make sense of it all. And not least assisted by many other great posts and insights here on IMdB and other places. I just try to make sense of it all.... a fun exercise especially for a halffinished project like this.

1) How can you say Polly was a robot when she wanted to bang both Harold and Ronan?

“Robot” is in lack of a better word really. But I do think the movie tells us that she is not human. And btw it was two different Pollies that wanted to "bang both Harold and Ronan".

I say “robot” but she could be anything really, just not human. The movie shows us that she does not eat, she is clean and neat despite riding the house for a long time, and it shows us that she is three clones etc who are playing some sort of devious game. And when you watch the movie again knowing that she is not just one person, it becomes increasingly obvious that she is un-natural in her behavior. I see this as robotic conduct, but if you prefer genetically cloned or programmed or any other term matters little. "None natural" they are, I suppose we can agree on. But we don’t have to.

They did not come clean to the others because they simply were there to have fun with the others... You get to be like that if time/age is of no issue – like it would be for an immortal... let’s say a robot. They are playing a sort of game and this is clear by the ending. What their motives were etc. is however unclear.

So with this in mind, their sexual games is in retro perspective provoked by something more than mere sexual conquests. What this could be? I do not know. But this alone does not make them unequivocally human.

Robots or genetically modified beings or none humans etc can have their own agendas and can really do anything we do... Austin Powers has a thing or two to say about that, when he fought the Sexbots :)

2) Seems plausible based on what we see in the movie, but what's the point of finding the mother?

Love perhaps? The movie tells us nothing but I like to think she might hold some secrets to win the battle, like e.g. the secret plans to the death star or whatever.

Does she have any special powers?

Dude, I saw it like a year ago. Didn’t the dad indicate she held some sort of importance beyond simply being their family? I seem to remember the dad hinting something!?

Why is the dad so young looking - he looks late 30's yet he has two 20+ year old children.

Healthy living perhaps? I did not find him unusual young looking. But we could speculate that he perhaps is from a world where humans no longer aged....

3) How do you know the black thing would react? Ronan accidentally started to activate it in the original world.

Dang, do not remember. I think this is entirely my imagination.

The movie is all in all a failed tv-show that did not take off and so became this movie. So all these open questions are here because the storytellers really never got their chance to answer them. A shame, I think, as the story is quite interesting and original. In any case this situation then begs us the viewers to make sense the best way we can by speculating, discussing and simply opening our brains for storms of creativity. I tried.

All you did was open up a ton of new questions.

You are welcome ;-)

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[–] DrClean 8 years ago

Pretty sure they were setting up the 3 Pollys as 3 versions of the same person from 3 different universes. In the scene where we first meet Polly she uses a phrase from a TV show in her universe that no one else recognizes. After they jump to the futuristic universe, Ronan repeats the phrase back to her - and she responds like she has no idea what he's talking about. This would indicate that Ronan was talking to a different Polly than the one who said that phrase, and that Polly came from a different universe where the TV show the other Polly got it from didn't exist.

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[–] hal-9010 8 years ago

Pretty sure they were setting up the 3 Pollys as 3 versions of the same person from 3 different universes.

The TV show quote is a good point. I read it as simply showing us that it was another Polly, but it too could be a Polly from another world. Or simply a Polly who doesn't watch TV. My mother can quote Wheel of Fortune on a whim. I cannot :)

However, if they are from different worlds (and worlds that spawned identical beings) it means these three girls stumbled in to the building by more or less chance, while they were more or less at the same age and wearing more or less similar outfits.... this seem extremely unlikely, no?

Also, if they are from different worlds they are strangers to each other and yet we experienced them as a cooperating force with some form of joined agenda. Plus the movie seem to make a point out of the Pollies not eating, and the first one we meet also seem strangely unvested in the dangers afoot. And they were always clean and neat... to me these characteristics point to something artificial and this is why I see them as identical drones or the like. Sadly, it looks like we will never know for sure.

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[–] DrClean 8 years ago

Or simply a Polly who doesn't watch TV.

She makes it sound like the show is very commonplace, even mentioning that there are no TV channels in her universe. It seems like a big waste to establish this phrase and its origins, then call back to it - only to explain it away as one of them doesn't watch TV. Especially considering that there is another scene indicating that it's a different Polly. Immediately upon leaving the building in the futuristic universe Polly starts asking Ronan what everyone's name is - even though they already told her when they first met. If they're all clones or something from the same universe, the scene about the TV show doesn't serve any purpose - it's just a repetitive hint that she's a different person.

However, if they are from different worlds (and worlds that spawned identical beings) it means these three girls stumbled in to the building by more or less chance, while they were more or less at the same age and wearing more or less similar outfits.... this seem extremely unlikely, no?

Not necessarily. One Polly could have found the building, then jumped around to different universes, actively seeking out and "recruiting" other Pollys. It's established that it's quite common for there to be other versions of yourself, with similar thoughts and feelings, in other universes. This would also explain why they're all the same age, as the first Polly would be traveling to other worlds in the same time period that she came from. The similar outfits would just be their way of deceiving the others into thinking they're all the same person.

I don't recall the scene where they indicate that she doesn't eat, could you elaborate? You're right that she seems rather casual when they're captured, could just be her general demeanor - she's pretty consistent with a lighthearted nature throughout. I wouldn't read too much into her being clean, it's a TV show (converted into a movie), the producers probably wouldn't be too fond of one of their lead women walking around all dirty and gross.

There could have been more going on with them, but it does seem like the show was strongly hinting that they were from different universes and working together for some unknown reason. Contained within the plot of the show, that seems like the most probable way for there to be 3 identical people. It is indeed too bad that we won't get to see what they had planned.

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[–] hal-9010 8 years ago

You put good points to the table :-)

Regarding the food: When he is going to try and buy food in the future like world, she is completely not interested and sort of tries to stop him for no good apparent reason, plus I recall she shays she wont eat any if he buys it...... it could be for a number of reasons, but it seems more than just a concern about that world.

Regarding their outfits; The are not the same, they all differ slightly. Why is that? Well if it was to fool the others, they would dress alike. They do not, and come to think of it the differences are more than slight, yet similar. So why is it like that? If they are from the same world that makes sense, I think.

Also, she is clearly neat and clean through the whole movie when the other are not, so it is not just an image thing... I dont think so at least.

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[–] DrClean 8 years ago

Regarding the food: When he is going to try and buy food in the future like world, she is completely not interested and sort of tries to stop him for no good apparent reason, plus I recall she shays she wont eat any if he buys it...... it could be for a number of reasons, but it seems more than just a concern about that world.

I just rewatched that scene and there's no indication that she has any concern about the food. She just stands there and doesn't say anything while Ronan asks about the food, then he orders 2 "crombies" and looks at her and she smiles. She only gets nervous and tries to stop him after he scans his hand and doesn't come up in the system, and she specifically states that she's worried about someone calling the cops.

You're right that their outfits and hairstyles differ very slightly, my guess is that this was setting up so the audience would have some way to tell them apart in future episodes. Clearly they are trying to fool the others into thinking they're the same person for some reason, whether they come from different universes or not. 2nd Polly even tosses 3rd Polly her jacket right before she walks out to join the others at the end of the movie, likely for consistency since they've just seen her wearing it.

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[–] hal-9010 8 years ago

Watched it long ago, so I gotta take your word for it :-) I just remember there seemed to be a aversion towards the food. Also when he got the idea at first she was sort of oddly against it.. but perhaps it was nothing.

Another challenge that they come from the same world is also Why would 3 strangers team up like that? It is a bit of an opinion in the end. I like the clone/robot angle generally but also because they seem a bit off human-wise to me. So had I been on the writing table I would have said; "hey, let's go for a Terminator world full of Asian schoolgirl looking T1000s"... and I would likely have been asked to get coffee, but still my preferred choice.

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[–] DrClean 8 years ago

Maybe you were remembering that Ronan kind-of makes a face when he sees what a "crombie" is - like a weird hamburger bun with crab claws sticking out. I don't think Polly had any real reaction or comment about the food.

Fair enough on your preference. I don't think that's what the producers had planned, but could be a cool idea.

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