Director John Carney on the ending: "I sort of hope the scene at the end would look a little like a fantasy sequence. You're supposed to wonder where the reality ends and the pop video begins. But people are actually taking it very seriously, and people are presuming it's fully real, which is interesting. That wasn't the intention."
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Director John Carney on the ending: "I sort of hope the scene at the end would look a little like a fantasy sequence. You're supposed to wonder where the reality ends and the pop video begins. But people are actually taking it very seriously, and people are presuming it's fully real, which is interesting. That wasn't the intention."
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http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/21/11477490/sing-street-john-carney-interview-once-begin-again
Yes I read the entire interview. This almost upsets me. I took it at face value, and now he's saying it might possibly be a dream of a music video.
shareI ask this with all due respect. I loved this movie. I believe it is the best film of 2016 so far...fictional film. NONE of it is true, so what difference does it make if it is a dream or not?? I'm being serious.
shareYeah, it shouldn't be "upsetting." Just because you had a different interpretation than the director doesn't mean your view and experience with the movie is less valuable.
shareI think you can take it either way, but he did set up precedence for it to be a fantasy. The Back to the Future scene foreshadows this. It also doesn't really jive with the rest of the film.
shareCame here to write this.
Question: But there was a point where it looked like it was going to end with them both dying in the Irish Sea.
Carney's Answer: I wish they had, in a way. I’m sorry! But there is a side of me that wishes they had. Given the difficulty of people who are making journeys, and end up dying.
Q: That would have been a much different, darker film.
A: It wouldn’t have been anything if they died in the end. It just wouldn’t have been a film. It just would have been a joke, or a twist, or something.
Link:http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/21/11477490/sing-street-john-carney-interview-once-begin-again
I totally agree, at some point at the end I thought they'd die, panicked and freaked a bit, but actually considered it the most legitimate ending.
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I think it's Carney that has said that this is the version of his childhood that he wish it were. Another important point from that interview is that he says "it’s kind of all in his head." Even the whole film feels that way, like how they excel at writing and playing songs at first attempts, find band members and a place to rehearse, get the girl he wanted, reconcile with the bully, etc. with almost no obstacles. You could even argue Conor's brother was a figment of his imagination.
But I think that's the whole point of the film, how precious youth seems, how you think you could do anything and be anything as a kid. A movie doesn't always have to convey a realistic story, sometimes only by showing an imaginative one can it shed a light on reality and resonate more with the viewer.
I think it's Carney that has said that this is the version of his childhood that he wish it were. Another important point from that interview is that he says "it’s kind of all in his head." Even the whole film feels that way, like how they excel at writing and playing songs at first attempts, find band members and a place to rehearse, get the girl he wanted, reconcile with the bully, etc. with almost no obstacles.
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I don't think John Carney was completely implying that it was all in his head. If you read the rest of the interview, he seems conflicted himself. He goes on to say that it's not about them living happily ever after, but instead about them "setting off together." He also makes a comment that "maybe he wants to have his cake and eat it, too."
It is not him saying that the whole film is in Cosmo's head, that none of it is real. I always took what he said about the ending playing like a fantasy sequence as a question of how real was the last moment? I believe they DID set off to London, as Carney says that IN the interview, but that the whole beautiful moments of rain falling and them almost dying what where the music video fantasy began.
"I mean, I don’t think it’s supposed to be a fully real sequence. I think they’re supposed to be quite brave, setting off. But it’s supposed to be… it’s funny. Maybe I do want to have my cake and eat it. Maybe I do want to have a winning sequence, but… there’s an element of it that could be a music video, or a fantasy. They’re in a boat together, and it's dangerous, and they’re being rocked by the sea, and he’s like the brave captain, but it’s kind of all in his head."
He says fully real. He is not saying that the ending sequence of them leaving doesn't happen, or that the ending is actually quite tragic, as it's just Cosmo dreaming of a better existence. Not in my opinion, at least.
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He says fully real. He is not saying that the ending sequence of them leaving doesn't happen, or that the ending is actually quite tragic, as it's just Cosmo dreaming of a better existence.
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When you say "real," "reality," or "realistic," it could be referring to either the reality within the film where the protagonist inhabits, or the reality that is continuous with the world we the audience live in.
I believe Conor and Raphina do indeed set off within the reality the film adopts, which is a slightly more grandiose version of our world, but the idea of such a couple of people leaving in the 1980s that actually happened in this world we know is a bit too unlikely and too fantastic(al).