Ok i'm really confused about the end of this movie. Roland tells the guy (I forgot his name) that the attidote was flavored water and all of a sudden he recovers. Then he sees all of his friends laying in thier graves but then all of a sudden his girlfriend is alive and then so are the others.Also what did that shoe with the batteries have to do with anything? and what was that letter about at the very end.
Can someone please expalin this to me i'm very confused.
Thanks.
I seriously don't think you're meant to understand it. I'm not kidding when I say I think the writer and the director were simply trying to make a "spacy" seeming flick rather than a well-thought-out one.
shareroland told joel it was flavoured water, because there was no antidote, he had only given him a drink...
he gave them a drug that gives you hallucinations/making you feel like you're dying, but you wake up the next morning. he says, "let's go wake the living,' or something, that's why they're suddenly "alive".
the shoe with the batteries, he grabbed rather than a gun with bullets, in his stupor, or at least that's how i took it.
The letter states that Roland was Joel's father, via sperm donor.
There was no poison, just a halucinogenic drug that brought on a death like sleep at the end. The antidote that Roland gave Joel was just a prop so he could continue his journey of discovery.
The shoe was what Joel "loaded" after dropping the bullets in his altered state. He thought he had the gun and was going to kill Roland for killing his wife, who wasn't really dead.
Watch where you step, the kiddies have taken over!share
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Far be it from me to advocate cat abuse (well, that would depend on the cat ...), but I was also moved by the ending.
I think this film had some very good ideas that have been used in movies like "The Cube," "Saw," "The Swimmer," "The Last Supper" and, perhaps most of all, "The Game." Unfortunately, a lot of it was awkwardly written and acted. I didn't understand some of the conflicts among the individual guests, and what the host wanted them to be honest about. But Lance Henriksen's fine performance made this a fascinating film.
And look on the bright side: The son had already lost his fake dad, so now he was just losing his real dad. And your cat got a wake-up call (assuming s/he survived the freefall).