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Was I The Only One?

posted 9 years ago by mf61581
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- Who thought that visually and stylistically, this looked like a movie from the 1970s or 1980s, not the 21st century? The styling on the parents (hair, clothing) and just the general color scheme (limited) seemed to suggest an earlier era. Was this deliberate?

- Who had trouble accepting the it-was-all-a-dream explanation? I predicted fairly early on that they had all died in the crash and that this was a sort of purgatory while they came to terms with it. I was wrong about the daughter. But, if everything that occurred after the accident was a figment of her imagination, while she was in a coma and trying to cope with the loss, then everything that occurred should have been from her perspective. A number of the events were hidden to her, so how would she have known about them? Was she some sort of omniscient dreamer? Had it not been a dream, it would make sense that the viewer would witness things that the characters did not. This is a common plot device.

[–] eddiehellstrom 9 years ago

I think the explanation in the end is great. It reminded me of the main segment of the movie "Campfire Tales".

Maybe the dream perspectives are just projections of the daughters empathy to her family members. She knows them very well and knows how they would feel and act in stressful situations etc.

[–] davidolic 9 years ago

At the very end we see two men cleaning up the mess of the crash scene and they come across the piece of paper with 'things I would like to do when this is over' written on. Therefore we are led to believe that it was not a dream at all.

[–] MrsRuran 9 years ago

I am looking at that part right now and they didn't find that paper, unless the version on Netflix is different. It just shows two men sweeping.

[–] MrsRuran 9 years ago

Never mind. I didn't realize there was more after the credits. My bad.

[–] lovelymemory 9 years ago

I don't think it was all a dream; at least, that's not what I took from it. I thought the odd man in the classic old car had staged the scene of the family's "car accident" to cover for the dead, mutilated bodies, and that he'd left the girl alive to eventually take the place of the original woman & baby to lure more victims.

Maybe I was way of the mark though. This (yours and other's viewpoints) certainly give me a different perspective of the movie.

[–] The_Man_in_the_Planet 8 years ago

I assumed it was "really happening," but on another plane of existence. This is true of the two Reeker movies, among other films.

In heaven everything is fine.

[–] CharlotteGoldenblatt 7 years ago

I took it that they were in pergatory or some sort, or the shock of the aftermath that they don't even realize they're dead.