Does anyone get it??
I really didnt get this, i got some of it but not the whole thing!! My bffl was "trying" to explain it... but nope shes a bad explainer!
share"The Dust Factory" is an allegory about the process of living; much like "Groundhog Day", the idea is that most of us just go through the motions of living (each day is just a repeat of the day before). The theme is the importance of having the courage to live life to the fullest and to get the most out of each day.
"Groundhog Day" illustrated this by having one day keep literally repeating itself for the main character, until he learned the value of each day. "The Dust Factory" does it by creating a symbolic place between life and death. This place is populated by those who are in a coma state, their body is alive but their conscious mind is no longer functioning. These people are allegorical (meant to symbolize those who are not living a full life). The circus ring is the point where people finally decide whether to get on with living or to get on with dying (a line borrowed from "Shawshank Redemption").
Either choice is a valid alternative depending mostly on what stage you are at in your life (the grandfather chooses death-the teenagers choose to live for a while longer), the wrong thing is being stuck there in limbo which symbolizes the day-to-day existance of many people.
i thought of it more as a life and death heaven and hell type thing if you know what i mean and the dust factory was purgatory thats just the way i took it
shareThat's exactly the question of this movie. It's not a mistake that the boys talk about being an Atheist in the beginning and that this would be hard if there weren't any god, or would it?
In the purgatory (comatose) state, the people had to find out by themselves, what Paradise might be (as compared in a nice story by the grandfather). Whether they will be able to find their own paradise, is fully up to themselves. In the purgatory they were questioned for their way of living.