For those that have seen the ending, lets vote... Did they die in cement or live to be old people in that nursing home? No votes for him dying in the parking lot, that's dumb.
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The form is like this:
My vote: They died.
I am: Female
OR...
My vote: They lived.
I am: Male
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Ok?
Here is my vote...
My vote: They died.
I am: Male
VOTE!
"...nothing is left of me, each time I see her..." - Catullus
If you think they died in cement; read this:
Sophie and Julien didn't commit to suicide. This film is a SURREALIST work of art. In Surrealism, you can't die unless your feelings die. They had to escape from the social and sociological obstacles of life: "Get married, settle down, have children, lose the sense of love, have an economical bind with your spouse..." . They just wanted to go on playing their game, they just wanted to stay loyal to their game; knowing that noone stays loyal to nobody's love.
Now, if you still think that they commit to suicide and wanted to die; you're thinking in terms of Materialism. There is another life after this one, or may be more another lives afterwards. In Surrealism, feelings are part of your soul; and they must not be materialized.
My rating for the ending: 9 /10
I'm a 26-year-old man, lived 8 relationships with different women of all different characters, still living my true love going on which was my 6th relationship; and that was love at first sight. We both felt seeing each other's reflection in our soul forming our unity. How we met? As two strangers waiting to get on the same bus in the queue; then our glances crashed together, then our emotions crashed together, then our attitudes crashed together; that was when we scared of each other and decide not to see each other again and felt that we were together long long long time ago (like in an earlier life & universe), and then we felt that we will be together long long long time after (like in a later life & universe). She's still scared and currently having psychiatrist therapy and studying Sigmund Freud to not to think of me.
I'm not sure exactly what your relationships or your relationship with this frightened woman have to do with the film, but I would like to comment on love.
Love isn't a feeling, it's a commitment. People often don't "feel love" for one another in marriage, but they stay. If you love someone, you overlook feelings often to do what is right, to stay true to that person.
"...nothing is left of me, each time I see her..." - Catullus
Wow. What an amazing thread.
I've seen this movie four times now, and never once thought that the couple dying in cement was real. I was convinced it was a metaphor for their eternal love and that the truth was that they grew old together and died in the nursing home. However, after reading everyone's perspective I think that it's incredibly obvious that they died together in the cement! Of course, it's all interpretational but based on all the "evidence" my vote is: they died.
And I am: female
I often ponder whether the forums are a good or bad thing for precisely the reason you mention. You were happy in your belief that they grew old together, and now that notion is dashed because of what you read here. It's great to get things clarified and feels good to vent your feelings and espouse your beliefs, but sometimes it gets in the way of personally held ideas about certain films that might best be left untainted.
I'm glad you enjoyed the thread, but I think you should continue to believe your own ideas about what happened, because that is precisely what the filmmaker would have wanted. You're entitled to your own interpretation.
"...nothing is left of me, each time I see her..." - Catullus
i kinda saw it in both ways, the first time and the second time i saw the movie i thought they had lived, and the cement was just kinda of a metaphor for them deciding to be together and (sort of) end the game.
then after talking about it here and such and rewatching it i kinda came to a different conclusion, i think they might have died in the cement, but the other stuff and the nursing home also happened, i thought after that it was sort of their version of an afterlife, and they brought the tin with them, i think they and with there games were a bit too much for the world, so they did die, but they stayed together in their own little "heaven" if you will.
i'm a girl
My vote: They died.
I am: Male
also my GF
Her vote: They died.
She is: Female
Old people scene was them in heaven, and it was stupid. Should have ended at the death, far more dramatically resonant.
If God exists, why did he make me an atheist? That's his first mistake. That and the talking snake
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My vote: They died
I am: Male
They lived
Male
I'd like to imagine they were just screwing around and told someone to dig them up right after....just seemed stupid to me if they didn't.
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I'll do a count soon, but I think it's pretty much running neck-and-neck between male and female voters on whether they lived. Maybe the thread influenced the findings, or maybe the original thesis was incorrect.
"...nothing is left of me, each time I see her..." - Catullus
They died.
I am: Female
My vote: They died
I am: female