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It All Makes Sense Now!

posted 17 years ago by VW-Beatle
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So Heinz's daughter Emily DID really die ... that explains why, when the crew ask if she's about 10 now, Heinz doesn't answer, but just says they ought to be going. Now that I think about it, that explains the line, "Memories aren't an escape!" as well.

What I find so strange and wonderful about this story is the fact that Eva is actually dead -- and the computer acts as her ghost, immortalizing her love of Carlo and her host of memories for all eternity.

Thoughts?

"I'll kill your whole family if you call me a psychopath!"

[–] magikpils 17 years ago

I think you are right, Emily is dead. I found this to be by far the best of the three shorts.

[–] tim_cantebury 16 years ago

i didn't find that hard to get at all. yea your right this is by far the best of the 3. i think it may have set the bar too high though, because i was expecting the other two to be of the same caliber which unfortunately were not.

[–] Antti_L 15 years ago

Uhh, I thought it was obvious. You people need to watch more cinema.

[–] neamtzu_rau 15 years ago

She's not dead, just far , far away from Heinz.

It's how all dads feel when their daughters are far , far away.

And the machine was just playing with his emotions.

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...something deep and overwhelming...

[–] Pcyguy 14 years ago

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...it's pretty obvious she's dead. That was what was so alluring about Eva's attempts to seduce him. She presented a fiction where his daughter was alive and well and could be with him. The reality was that she had died, and accepting that was how he was able to break free from her grasp.

It's also foreshadowed in the lack of a reply when asked about his daughter and the toy that fell from the desk that looked similar to his daughter.

The set up for the fall was there too. In his memories, she reminds him to fix the rocket ship on the roof of the house, right after getting that space suit. She then asks to join him in 'space'. Later in the movie, we witness the events that occurred later that day, as she tries to join him on the roof, wearing the space suit for the first and, sadly, last time.

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[–] sonofindiandelta 13 years ago

If you noticed the weathervane is a phallus, so I wouldn't be surprised if there is some underlying Oedipedal symbolism underlying that scene.

[–] arijanian 13 years ago

Uh...no, I'm pretty sure it's just a rocket ship. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, my friend.

[–] BurnInMyLight 12 years ago

Isn't every rocket ship phallic by practical design?

[–] ChazzJazz 11 years ago

Isn't every rocket ship phallic by practical design?

not if you dont smoke it.