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So... what's the meaning of the title?

posted 8 years ago by IMDB_Vits
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[–] TxMike 8 years ago

You gave this movie a rating of "10" and didn't even view it with enough attention to know the meaning of the title? Seems like you didn't even see it. What a fraud!

Viggo

[–] danloki 8 years ago

I didnt know the meaning of the title either so thanks to the person who posted the explanation below.

[–] Clyburn 8 years ago

I kept expecting some tie-in to the Elton John song - thought that might even be what she was going to sing at the cremation - but nope.

[–] [deleted] 8 years ago

Same here. Thanks to the OP. I didn't really like the title, nor the whole theme around the wife's death. Why couldn't it have just been about this odd family without the horrible death thrown in?

[–] Boni-The-Sock 8 years ago

To his wife, Ben was "fantastic" (as she says in his dream), and Ben intitled himself "captain" of the bus he was driving, so...

I once told a man to go screw himself! Can you even imagine?! - Kilgrave

[–] IMDB_Vits 8 years ago

Thanks!

[–] hewhohasnoname 8 years ago

Seems surely the film maker wanted a title that would, at once, blend in with hero drama cartoon adaptation...um ...you know ...stuff
And also stand on its own as an adult meditation on what it meams to live a hero's existance...

[–] MoviemanCin 8 years ago

A stupid title for a stupid movie.

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.