Who was he?an angel?what was he trying to tell Dr.Beach?Also something else I didn't understand...had doctor Beach killed himself in the beginning and God trying to give him another chance to redeem himself by helping patients was that the idea?
shareI think there was no second chance. Ty killed himself and went to Hell. Sinbad, or Mr Jefferson, needed to talk to him... but Ty was too concerned with himself- like he was during his life.
An angel makes more sense than what I thought. I thought Mr Jefferson was his daughter.
I thought that Mr. Jefferson was sort of representing God, so when Ty was telling him he didn't have time for him or would talk later when he wasn't busy, he was really saying this to God, which shows how self-involved Ty was supposed to be. And at the end, he basically says to Ty "I just wanted to tell you how things work, but you didn't want to listen".
shareHere's a revealing clue about this character: Did you notice that Mr. Jefferson (Sinbad) had one blue eye and one brown eye. He said everybody called him "Right Eye". In Latin the left eye is translated as "oculus sinister" and commonly thought of as the "eye of satan" (what o.s. stands for on your eyeglass or contact precription). The right eye or "oculus dexter", therefore is the eye which sees the correct or "right" way of things, sometimes referred to as "God's eye".
Unfortunately, the self-involved, egomaniacal Dr. Adams doesn't want to take the time to talk to a lowly orderly, so he never receives the information he needed to redeem himself. If he had stopped to talk to Mr. Jefferson on that first day, or even on one of the other occasions Mr. Jefferson had tried to reach him, he would have known he was being tested and could have taken the "right" path. But, even if Dr. Adams had heard Mr. Jefferson, would he have listened?
His eye colors also swap at some point during the movie, and Ty Adams doesn't even notice - another illustration of how self-centered Dr. Adams is.
At first that character struck me as having an idendity complex.... trying to look, act, and talk like a black guy, and of course he looked up to Dr. Adams & insisted to "hook him up" which kind of annoyed him.... anyway that was my first thought about it.
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But, even if Dr. Adams had heard Mr. Jefferson, would he have listened?
I definitely thought he was an angel. The one guy that could have helped Dr. Beach to "see" what was going on, but Beach wouldn't listen. You can't fix stupid.
You are so BAD!!! Come sit next to me.
That was the interpretation that I gathered... That Sinbad's character was a metaphor for God trying to get our attention, but we brush him off time after time until it is too late. I noticed that he was not in the final scene. I was expecting to see him (Sinbad) in the final scene, but I was fully expecting him to walk in in full angel gear and say - "see... all I wanted was a moment of your time" or something like that.
shareAn angel makes more sense than what I thought. I thought Mr Jefferson was his daughter.