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The sad thing is... spoiler...

posted 15 years ago by starline
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The sad thing is...

Is what good was the premonition? Was the premonition suppose to help her kill him? Was it so she would be rid of him and have lots of money? I don't get it.

If she had done Nothing he would have lived... he would still be in his little girl's lives...but because Linda got involved...she caused his death.

If she hadn't told him to turn around...his car wouldn't have staled in the road and been hit.

So what was the point of everything? She and he made up...now she'll have a child that will never know him. She'll have 3 children missing their daddy. What's the message ...better for hubby to have loved and died...than to have lived and possibly divorced?

[–] AMS-4 15 years ago

The reason for her experience was to make the couple find love again, conceive the child and make the husband get an insurance so that his family would be financially okay after his death.

It was his time, she couldn't change his outcome, but she was given a chance to secure her future. The downside of this is that she got locked up by her relatives and suspected of murder / insurance fraud by the police, but she comes out okay in the end.

[–] starline 15 years ago

Thanx for the explanation. That makes sense. :)

[–] Voridor 15 years ago

No she did not cause his death, because remeber in the beggining, The Sheriff came the next day and said he was Dead at that point she was not there to witness the accident, it happened without the premonitions. The only thing that happened different that she really changed was, HOW the accident happened in the original premonition or timeline the husband had such a deep cut to his neck his head was severed, in the real time not the premonition his head may of been cut off still but he had to be burned to a living piece of toast, so she somehow CHANGED the accident but not the outcome, Nor was the cause of it, however she could of prevented it if she had of told him to get out earlier instead of them chatting away about how things are going to be better that was like a 3 minute waste of time.

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[–] Voridor 15 years ago

Okay now I am confused how did she get the message in the beggining plus be behind him in the car that implies time travel which she was not doing

[–] AMS-4 15 years ago

Well, in a way she did, since she was living the days out of order. You might as well call it time travel. Because of that the message is what it is. Her future self is calling him before he crashes.

[–] markfilipak 15 years ago

The Sheriff came the next day and said he was Dead

Wrong. She dreamed that the sheriff would come to her on Thursday, but we never get to see what really happens on Thursday - The film skips from Wednesday to a day, six months later, when Linda and the kids are moving into the house at the lake.

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[–] brownsugar1173 14 years ago

The downside of this is that she got locked up by her relatives and suspected of murder / insurance fraud by the police, but she comes out okay in the end. * AMS-4 I agree with everything you are saying,but one thing I don't agree on is the part about her getting locked up by relatives and suspectedof insurance fraud that was part of her weird dreams/premonition It never happened.....

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[–] BB-15 14 years ago

From starline;

"If she had done Nothing he would have lived... he would still be in his little girl's lives...but because Linda got involved...she caused his death."

That is my interpretation. Several people on this Board have explained that a lot of the film are dreams by the Bullock character. She is dreaming that bad things will happen. But what is happening in reality moves in sequence, day by day.

So, at the end it is just the Bullock character and her husband on the road but then she becomes a major cause of the bad event that she fears the most.

SPOILER

When I was watching the end of the movie and the husband has pulled off of the road near a blind curve/hill, I thought the best thing he could do would be to get out of the car right away and walk to the woods.

* But Bullock's character asks him to do the worst thing, a U turn on a highway near a blind turn/hill. Anyone who knows anything about traffic safety would realize that this would one of the most dangerous things a driver could do.
- It was ridiculous imo. She tells him to make a U turn which almost immediately causes an accident. He could have been killed by the first car. The fuel truck just emphasized how extra dumb the Bullock character's advice was.

My rating of the film went down several notches because of that scene.

BB ;-)

it's just in my humble opinion - imho -

[–] contactac 13 years ago

But did he really die? Bullock's character gets out of bed in the end and turns to the bathroom door, with expectations. In my imagination he is standing in the shower... or am I just a sucker for happy endings? ;)

[–] glasha-1 13 years ago

He's dead alright. There is no way one can survive such an explosion.

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[–] twob_ornot 12 years ago

I'm with you 100%. Get out of the car! Save the lovey dovey talk for later.

[–] psdhart 13 years ago

I agree

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