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Still Lost in Your Own Reality??

posted 18 years ago by jcpennell
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I am attempting to make my way into filmaking. Therefore, I do not understand how some of you cannot realize much of what is going on throughout this movie. AND I STATE...I may be completely wrong but, one really needs to pay attention to detail! As so many scenes went by, it only built up the storyline...like a flashback. I feel that even up until the end everything she "dreamed" or "comprehended" actually did happen!! She was only reliving the very last scene within different scenarios. The end was THE END! As others may say...Hugh talked about a photo of the 1st day they met...we never saw that exact photo. It may have been the one of him "the lawywer" not the photo of his hand at the conveniece mart! As, we have already viewed photos after the tragic accident...as well as places the same detective at the scene. Once I again, this is my opinion...I stand to be corrected...

I simply find it to be more obvious than a great deal of us are thinking!!

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[–] Pums_swt 18 years ago

Wow - you're good. Thanks so much for putting your thoughts on this - it helped me make more sense of the movie. Your interpretation sounds right on ! thanks

[–] lshack623 18 years ago

I agree who your summary

I took notice to the way the film was shot. Expecially the blue wallpaper in the sceen where they were getting ready to leave for dinner. The entire film was shot with a gray haze, except for the part where she met Hugh & took his picture, but I will get to that later. I think the film shot with the gray haze (most of the movie, the photography class etc) were her thoughts as she lay dying & as she came to terms with her own death & mortality the sceen/the truth became brighter as she came to terms. She was always dying & the only "light" she saw was Hugh. She needed him to forgive her in her own mind so she could come to terms with her own impending death. She also needed to know her Mom approved of her too. The last sceen with her Mom was also shot brighter & Mom was not judgemental. All in al this movie was boring, thought provoking, but boring none the less. Tragically hip, Indy film class 101.

[–] suncicax 18 years ago

Re: Photograph of Hugh's hand?
by - suncicax 29 seconds ago (Mon Aug 14 2006 11:37:55 )
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Hi,
I watched this movie today and I liked it. It reminds me a lot of Mulholland's drive, the movie is about a person trapped between dream and reality and that person creates in her mind a story of her own-a story that she would like to be the truth.
If you go back and see a scene where a cop goes trough the pics he asks her 'is there something u r not telling me', and 'were u aware of the third person in the store'? It does tell us that there were only three people in the store-the owner, his son and Sophie. I think Sophie was cheating on her boyfriend with her coworker and that day they both went to the store to take pics-the guy went out to get something from the car , in that moment Sophie and the other two were shot.
However, because Sophie feels guilty of cheating and lying to her boyfriend
she dreams of how the things could have ended-don't forget the fortune cookie
that says 'it is never too late to change what happened' or something like that.
She is dreaming about telling her boyfriend, who would still stay with her even though she cheated. Also, don't forget the scene where her guy from works asks if she want to get a drink and she says NO-that what she could have said but didn't. Instead they went out and slept together.

Also couple of more explanations. At the begging of the movie she sees a psychiatrist and she tells her that she cheated on her boyfriend ONCE(no affair they just had sex) and she feels guilty-that tells us she cheated only once and on the day of the shooting!!! That's why her boyfriend asks her 'how long it's been going on-since the shooting'-one time guys, on the day of the shooting.
She dreams of her boyfriend dying with her. She dreams of the last thing she sees-HIS HAND! As far as her mother goes, I think she didn't have a good relationship with her mom in reality-note the arguments every time they have dinner , and the glass spilling. When she was dying she changed the relationship from bad to good by smiling to her mom, and accepting to have a haircut-her mom tels her 'your hair looks nice'!!! That's what could have happened.