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I agree.
Only thing, she could also have broken the cycle by showing herself and warning them off before they boarded.
Poor Heather!
Only thing: Why are the others also being punished?
Being killed over & over, and even climbing over a pile of your bodies... that's real punishment!
I just independently came up with the same conclusion. I came here to see what you were thinking & voila!
So, I wholeheartedly support your explanation!
I'm not sure the diagrammatic analysis helps the viewer.
We're supposed to feel uneasy and wonder which Jess we see and how much she actually knows.
I think the Driver is also Charon, the "boatman" who transports the dead.
The Sisyphus myth is missing a spoke, in that Sisyphus himself was punished for making a promise to Death that he didn't keep.
WAIT! If the Driver is really Death, she didn't keep her promise to return and pay him (coins for Charon).
Another in the Star Trek universe is the time-travel return to "Trouble with Tribbles" on Deep Space Nine.
Here's some info. If you liked the original "Tribbles" you'll love this one. It also has references to "X Files" and even "Mathnet" if you remember that from PBS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials_and_Tribble-ations
Well, the "Seagulls" answer is as good as any... they may actually be demons or some-such.
The "punishment' ideas is illuminating, as I wondered how there was any parallel between Jess and Sisyphus. Still she made no apparent promise to "Death" that she didn't keep. That's the myth Sally describes.
What bothered me more, Jess apparently knows she's in a loop, given her promise to the driver. Thus, how does she think she'll break it if she keeps doing the same thing over and over? The only pattern she seems to break is the abuse of her son.
Plus, what did the others do that they have to keep dying over and over?
Well, good movies do leave us questioning sometimes. I liked this one, in an uneasy way.
Pretty good, though not, to me, memorable.
I'm surprised you even came up with those.
For a PK Dick based story, this one rang hollow for me all the way.
The basic concept was good, though. I don't know which was first, but this seemed like a finger exercise for Blade Runner.
Yeah, I had to rewind it and turn on subtitles to see what he said.
He said, "That's Olham!"
So, yes, very significant. It lets us know that it's not the replicant in the ship, and that Impostor Olham knows he's an impostor.
It also tells us SHE was the decoy and HE is the bomb, just before the eye-thing and the explosion.
It was worth seeing for me, but barely so. I'm not a Nic Cage fan, though, either.
As to the music, it was Beethoven. I figured the connection was that he was deaf, like Caleb.
Yes, it was one of the few things I liked about the movie.
But then, I can't think of anything I've liked with Nic Cage in it.
Lucinda must've collected them.
She had a bunch under her bed.
Hilarious answer!
Yes, but I also assumed that the other kids would bring two of other animals.
Note that the ships landed some distance from each other. Thus, maybe starting different habitats and countries.
I wonder if races and LGBTQLSMFT folk were properly represented.
I agree with your conclusions.
I also saw the short upon which this movie was based. In it, the test dog does disappear. I figure they did it behind a sheet in the original due to the low budget. In this version, they probably didn't want accusations of animal abuse... or maybe it would mean an NC-17 rating or some-such.
In the short, the mirror-dog was ironically named "Flip."
Oh, and also in the short, the neighborhood pets, even the crickets in the area, all disappear.
I'll upset the apple cart and say the Fiance never existed.
Note that his character was hardly filled in at all. Just a wisp. That's also why the cops don't mention his body.
The very last shot shows Young Kaylie watching the cops and ambulance pull away. That tells me that all the adult scenes were mind tricks by the Mirror. It was warning the kids what would happen if they tried to keep their vow to kill it.
Apparently, as another poster said, the Mirror has less effect on kids, possibly because their minds are less developed and more literal than that of adults.
One that knocked my socks off was "Martyrs."
https://youtu.be/hWZKDCAbEts
I think that's just what happened.
The very last shot is of Young Kaylie watching the cops and ambulance pull away.
That made me think the kids' scenes were reality, while the adult scenes were the mirror showing them they would never be able to defeat it.
I think the Mirror did one more "flip:"
The very last shot shows Young Kaylie watching the cops and ambulance pull away.
That made me think that all the adult parts of the film were the kids' fantasies, fueled by their vow to return as adults to destroy the Mirror, and its ability to feed on those emotions and warp them.
Yes, I like your concept of the mirror "flipping" things.
In the original short, the test dog's name was "Flip!"
Remember, no matter what you rig, the Mirror can fool you into thinking you did it, when you actually did not... or even rigged something that would kill YOU.
So, yes, eternal storage is the safe way.
I say send it to the US Government warehouse where they sent the Lost Ark of the Covenant.
Store it between the Ark and the box containing all the evidence of deaths caused by the Clintons.
It'll be SURE to be lost there!