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The ending was BIGGER for me.... (SPOILERS)

posted 12 years ago by stazza
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Ok. so....

it's ends the way it does and I'm scratching my head for a minute computing what I just saw. And the ending got way bigger for me than what I read on here.

Ending: they escape the big vault, go hide away in the islands and he pitches her disk that showed she was labeled for extermination at all costs. Sure, seemed a tad weak....

BUT... MY Brain put THIS into all that.

Back up a bit to the Vault... it is huge and FILLED with billions of data files. We learn our guy invented or sells or something, that mind altering hypnosis technology. We don't know how many decades this tech has been functional. He pulls HER file from that huge vault. What are the rest of the data files in there?? The rest of the population most likely. Everyone. Presidents, doctors, and lawyers too, unfortunately. They could use these files and make anyone into anyone just by putting stuff in the water.

Anyway, I saw it that he just wanted their individualistic lives back, not leaving her essence out there to reproduce, clone and abuse for nefarious purposes. So his stealing the file of her was keeping them from making her, or him, yet again and reusing them.

Kind of a larger, controlling world system, he helped create, he knew was wrong and wanted them out of it. The companies knew it, feared they would destroy their profits, and marked her (and him most likely) for termination.

Anyway, that was my larger intepretation of the ending. And it made sense to me and fit perfectly with the knowns.

[–] Sgt_Price 11 years ago

I don't think this is has anything to do with clones. I didn't get that vibe from it.

[–] stazza 11 years ago

I don't mean physical CLONES, but mental.

The whole movie is based on technology allowing this guy "changing him mind" into someone else completely - except for those memory flashbacks... so, my reasoning is the bad people (Government??) have all these "files" for EVERYONE, not just a couple people - copies of their life, essance, soul whatever they can keep remaking people however they see fit: drug them up, imprint a new you whether you want to or not.
This guy has escaped this system and decided to live free as himself and with his girl.

I'm okay with the ending as is, but I think it is bigger than its surface, even supported by the whole plot.

Cool movie.

[–] 11 years ago

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[–] Henry750 9 years ago

Nice interpretation, couldn't agree more.

He used the hypnosis technology agains't itself, made his way through the system in order to retrieve their personal data from the bank, but i don't think he created, in that case he could just acess the bank and delete their files. Maybe he's just a genius who figured out the fake world around him and fought out of it, like the man who woke up from the matrix and freed the first citizens of Zion. Lol.

[–] MoviemanCin 8 years ago

Very interesting take, stazza.

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and / or doesn't.