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It Only SEEMED The World Was Ending (-SPOILER-)

posted 16 years ago by AdamMitchell
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SPOILER...

The world was not ending...it only seemed that way to Patrick after his girlfriend died. He said to Sandra, When she died, "they said the world would end." His world had ended, or he was considering ending it. He was a closed, insular person again, until he met Sandra. His world began anew when he met Sandra. For the first time since his girlfriend's death, he felt life. When Patrick and Sandra kissed, the blinding light was the end of his Doomsday world...his new life was beginning with a new love.

This is not a highly factual analysis (if you want that, I cite to Mystery Science Theater 3000, "you should really just relax.") This is an allegorical interpretation; ONE level where it worked for me.

One edit: I just re-saw the film. There is a countdown at the end. But when the countdown reaches "0", the world does not end. The world continues for at least another 15 seconds while Patrick and Sandra give up their mutual suicide pact and instead have a lingering kiss. To me this is a clue that the world did not end. It seemed like it was ending to Patrick. But when he found love again in his heart, the world did not end after all. It's just a sign - to me - and I realize that a lot of people will not share this interpretation.

[–] jessthehuman 12 years ago

ugh.. Why do people have to make up stuff about movies? It's bad enough when movies are deliberately ambiguous in such a way that the story is completely incoherent by the end. I don't mind an ambiguous ending when it is making a statement about something and the actual way it plays out is moot relevant to the actual statement being put forth. But when movies are just ambiguous to be wanky and to cop-out on an actual ending man that s**ts me.

This movie however could not have made it more clear that the effing world was ending. And that it ended. There is nothing about the movie or the ending that indicated anything other than the complete and final destruction of the earth.

Why make S**t up about it? Why can't you just accept the movie and the concept for what it was without reading some arty/wanky crap into it that clearly wasn't there?

[–] guitboxdude25-1 12 years ago

You're an idiot. The Allegory is most certainly there, the relation between Patrick's tragedy and the forthcoming one in the film. It's called a metaphor, kiddo, and just because some people are open minded enough to explore different possibilities, and put their neck out to test new theories (Something you wouldn't know anything about) Does not mean they're "making up stuff about movies".

P.S. on a more personal level I know in the film the world ended, half-wit. But the metaphor still exist, and for future reference, film is art, yes it is,and when you're viewing or listening to or experience any kind of art, the truth is in the subtext.

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