What's with the bus
What do the writer want to potray by showing this old man and the bus? Is it the symbolism of ghost world?
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Just like the comic, the ending is ambiguous and up for interpretation. Most opinions I have read view the bus scene as symbolism for Enid's suicide OR her leaving childhood behind to finally enter adulthood. Here is one insight:
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I really have a hard time thinking she committed suicide.
The entire movie she's snarky and think she knows everything. The point with the old man at the bus stop, like the old man said, she doesn't know everything.
She goes on an emotional journey through the movie that knocks her down a few pegs. She comes to understand, no...she doesn't know everything.
The people who said it's symbolic of her leaving her childhood, maturing, and entering adulthood are right. Suicide? Well, that's just a horrible interpretation.
That is exactly as I saw the movie too watching it again. She takes a sarcastic and careless view of people and life in the first half of the film and in the second half she grows sobered by the realization of how hard adult life really is and how she doesn't know anything at all and can't make it on her own either (apparently). I am torn on the possibility of her committing suicide, it is a possibility but she has also may have just been hit with the reality truck. She was a lost little girl which is really why I think she had the relationship with the older man, she wanted someone to take care of her.
shareI have several different ideas about that bus.
The one I'll go with for now, is that she realizes that she's sort of a fuck up and she might as well try to escape her over and over again existence, and she's seeking to change that by going on that journey.