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Was that *spoiler* at the end of the movie real?


Was that frog rain at the end of the movie real?

Or was it actually imagined by some if not all of those characters to be as such?

For one, few of them acknowledge it. And at the end, you don't really see a TV weather report reporting it, it would've been huge breaking news at the time if it really happened.

And also, even if that scene was cut and it was actually that black kid throwing him a gun from his car, isn't it convenient that through the frog rain that cop's gun gets thrown to him and that apparently it's only this film's main characters who get in any way affected by it?

Including Baker Hall's TV presenter for his past abusive behaviour and how it just so happens when characters seem on the brink of going mad from their massive problems but somehow redeem themselves from that almost Biblical and nearly supernatural rain of frogs?

And that kid Stanley just nonchalantly thinks "Hmm, this happens" and doesn't really get much more surprised or curious beyond that.

So was it real or in some if not all of those characters' minds and imaginations, thanks.

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"Accept the mystery."

edit after reading more of you posts in here:

If I took in movies the way you do, if I watched a movie like Magnolia and what it brought to my mind were these insipid questions you want answered, I'd eat a buckshot salad for dinner tonight.

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What's wrong with a buckshot of salad for dinner?

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In this case, absolutely nothing.

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I take many different films DIFFERENTLY just in case and sometimes I even accept the mystery, but hey... Sometimes it may cause us to think like this too.

Besides, many movies that exist offer entertainment and simply wishful thinking scenarios rather than question the de-facto human existence and human condition as such.

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Maybe in the Magnolia universe it rains frogs all the time.

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Yes I believe we are meant to take it literally. Why? Because the brief stories told at the beginning of the film -- unusual stories involving wild coincidence -- are intended to set the viewer up for what happens at the end. So that when it happens at the end it won't be considered cheating (i.e., introducing some weird and random event for no apparent reason).

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How could multiple people have the same hallucination?

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