A hundred of your ex-lovers prepare for your death by making handmade instruments, after which they noisily chase you across town and eat your body.
I wish I had a dime for every time that happened.
Wow, when you put it that way it sounds like probably the most retarded death ever.
shareMaybe this should be added to the Spike station tv show, "1,000 Ways to Die." lol
shareyes, I agree. It was disturbing, there's no doubt about that but so unbeliveable. I'm sure William's could have come up with just a scary and a little more realistic scenario. I get the whole metaphor of it but it suffers from the fact that he had to bend reality to acomplish it.
ask the spokesperson, I don't have a brain
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Does cinema always have to be realistic? I've never heard someone would flatter this movie because of its realism. Let's take David Lynch a great artist who uses surrealism, but deals with our everyday social issues. So through surrealism you can reach realism in a way.
To me films are reality that has taken the form of art. The ending doesn't try to be realistic it tries to comment and discuss. I found the ending very well done.
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle"
I think Sebastian's death was arranged by him, as his last act of poetry.
It's mentioned in the film that Sebastian spends some time in Tibet (with his mother). The manner of his death is very similar to the Tibetan sky burrial, where bodies are left on high cliffs for the vultures to eat.
His mother was with him in Tibet. As his cousin finishes telling the story of his death, Sebastian's mother closes his empty poem book. I think she understood his death to be his poem for the summer.
"My son, Sebastian and I constructed our days. Each day we would carve each day like a piece of sculpture, leaving behind us a trail of days like a gallery of sculpture until suddenly, last summer."
Now that's deep. I never thought of it in that light. But do you think he did this b/c of his heart condition and knew he was going to die from it at some point?
shareFantastical element aside, I believe that his death was a hallucination.
There are different perspectives one can approach this play.
It's about whether you believe Catherine or not.
She was either schizoid, or her mental instability was brought about by traumatic experiences (such as her rape, and the death of sebastian).
Who knows how Sebastian really died, as we only know the events through Catherine.
At the end, we see the reaction of Violet, which seems to affirm Catherine's version.
However, we know that Catherine tends to easily skew things.
My theory is,
Catherine actually killed Sebastian, though saw the whole thing as her running after a crazed mob who devour Sebastian.
Violet's reaction in the end may not be an affirmation of the events, but rather, a sympathetic cry to Catherine, who cannot see past her delusions and thus does not know the right and wrong of what she did.
Why did Catherine do it? Of course she didn't want Sebastian dead, but something inside her went off, something which she couldn't control.
Violet wanted the lobotomy so that Catherine would not have to suffer further, yet Catherine concocts a grand scheme in her mind and becomes paranoid.
Violet is also mentally unstable, as, she too, seems to be stuck in the past, and wants to see things the way she does.
Who is to trust?
Anyone can take what has happened in a movie..and in real life actually.. and come up with their own spin on what happened and why. Your ideas really have nothing to back them up as being what may have really happened. Total speculation based on nothing.
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