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I don't think David made it through the car accident...


I saw this movie in 2002 and I originally bought the frozen-to-the-future ending but watching it again all these years later I'm not convinced.

I believe the day of the accident was the day David died and the rest of the movie is either a vivid death dream or some type of transitional purgatory. I notice the particular shot of the car going off the bridge smashing into the wall so graphically was meant to give us a clue that this was nothing anyone could survive.

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Essentially, he is dead but he's being "kept alive" frozen and he is lucid dreaming. The scene where he is talking to Tilda Swinton is him coming to the realization that he is dead. I think that's why he was shouting "tech support", almost like he wasn't supposed to know but he started figuring it out.

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One NOT frozen, ironic in two ways, given his wish/public myth abouty it and his company's l;ater film with the title (alreayd guessede), is Walt Disney. He's cremated.

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...and that scene right after it. In the park with Sofia. That's the only scene I just cannot place in anywhere in the movie.

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Yes. The entire film is about the process of an entitled person dying suddenly. He doesn't want to let go of earth.

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Oh, wow! I like that idea.

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Such a pretentious analysis. Looks like you're writing your own script there buddy. It's quite obvious that he survived and after the nightclub scene onward it was a dream until the final act.

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No he didn't survive that crash. Explain the DREAM scene after it with Sophia in the park. That was so obviously fake. And why did She act so cruel to him at the club?? Come on. He was DEAD.

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The film begins with David already in the midst of a LUCID dream gone bad. He is telling his story to McCabe. David begins talking over that scene after his dialogue ends with Sophia. He is speaking to McCabe, lending more credence that he is reflecting on how his dreams mock him, clearly indicating that that scene is a dream he is remembering and sharing with McCabe.

Just as the opening scene of the film is a dream he had had and was relating to McCabe.

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He made it through the car accident but then killed himself due to all the headaches and pain he was in losing Sofia, he then signed up to Life Extension and will be put into a Lucid Dream until his injuries can be treated and fixed, which is in the future.

He then has a choce to make at the end, to continue with the Lucid dream where he and Sofia are together, or wake up in reality which is years after the accident.

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