Interpretation? (SPOILERS)

This can be an interpretation of the movie. I think the beginning shows nuclear bombs, destruction, etc. intercut with a chain machine of some short. Then we see the two girls realizing that the "world has gone bad, so we're going to be bad". The opening montage shows us that "the world has gone bad": an omnipotent chain machinery (states, ideologies, etc.) is turning the world into a nuclear wasteland. The girls decide that if they want to "get out" of the dictatoric and pessimistic "reality" of the world, they need to turn to irrational, anarchic and destructing behaviour. (It's interesting that in the first scene the girls move with "robotic" sounds: they're "robots" of the totalitarian society until they decide to leave it and become "bad".) In the end they realize that they either become "good" and follow the orders or drown and die - there is no escape from society and the reality of the Cold War, totalitarian world.

Also, there are a lot of (overused) symbolic imagery in the film: when they decide to go "bad" they suddenly end up on a field near an apple tree from which they pick up and eat apples (Book of Genesis, anyone?) and apples appear later in the film as well. When they slice pickles and sausages while we hear that crazy-in-love guy in the phone... I hope I don't need to explain what that means...

"A voice from behind me reminds me. Spread out your wings you are an angel."

Has the 60's countercultural ideal all over it. Seriousness sucks, having fun rules, put the deal makers on the train to nowhere and party.

The bouncing really made me smile, kind of like the Brit term "shagging" which means silly, carefree, bouncy sex. It's an impossibility to bounce and not be happy. It's the bouncing that makes this movie what it is. If you were in that restaurant where they take over the show, wouldn't you have paid their bill just so they could stay awhile?


I like waking up in the morning not knowing who I'll meet or where I'll end up: The Titanic

After one war there is hedonism mixed with the carefree and the women have a ball at the expense of men, usually. Then there is subjugation. The women whose wardrobe was varied, colourful, sexy and feminine is replaced by newspaper and they repair the last of their destructiveness as best they can. They co-operate because otherwise they were to be drowned. Having co-operated they are killed anyway and there is another war.

I'm scared of the middle place between light and nowhere