I watched this film last night and wondered if anyone knows who calls Cristobal at the end of the movie?
I could see that someone was calling his mobile and there was a close-up of the phone but there wasn't time to see who's name was flashing up. It may not matter but I just wanted to know in case it's relevant!
All These Moments Will Be Lost In Time Like Tears In Rain...
I just saw the movie yesterday, it was his father who was calling him. I don't really know what could it exactly mean, but my guesses are that he got caught by the police or that someone from the house gave him a call informing him about the overdose. I could also be that he found out about the Harvard rejection letter. What do you think?
shareI saw the movie just now and I thought it was a good first film too. I liken it to a low budget version of American Beauty. A study of the dark underside of suburban middle class culture. Behind every fascade of the kept garden and pool is a complex web of human pain, deception, abuse, anxiety, broken dreams and broken promises etc.
As for the father's call, I think the point being that the father was accused of being a con man - yet he was in the dark about so much of what his kids were going through... and there was his son, conning his girlfriend, himself, his mother, his friends etc. he was isolated by the walls that all this deception - a product of the fathers deception in the house that the father had built up - its really a moral warning about the dangers of not 'keeping it real'.
Thats just my opinion anyway... :)
It was his dad calling, but i honestly just think that he was calling just to check up on his children and Cristobal being in the midst of a personal crisis just couldn't deal with the lies he kept telling his dad (that he was excited about harvard, waiting for the acceptance letter, etc.)
Aime-moi moins, mais aime-moi longtemps.