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So the husband was the boyfriend?


Of course it's sort of open to interpretation...

1) Ben was the boyfriend and Lewis was the husband.

2) Ben and Lewis are different personalities in the same body.

3) Ben was the husband and Lewis was the boyfriend.

Ben asks, "Do you love your husband?"

By the time he asks this, both of them have been exposed to the signal.

All of us have asked this question to people at some point, referencing your own title in the third person. For instance if a boy is mad at his mother, and the mother asks, "Don't you love your mother anymore?"

It may sound weird, but I got in trouble once at work and asked my boss, "Do you like your Employee of the Month anymore?"

So my favorite interpretation is the one where Ben is actually the artsy, flighty husband, and Lewis is the big, hulking boyfriend who can keep a job. For this to work, Ben the husband would have to know that Mya was cheating on him with Lewis, but allowed her to do it for some reason.



I`m sorry for my lack of manners, but I`m not used to escorting men.

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Maybe Ben and Lewis are really a gay married couple? ;)

Just kidding. The way I understood that confusing part was that Ben tried to put a "vision" into Lewis head to drive him crazy because he couldn't physically beat him. I don't understand it fully though, Lewis was thoroughly distracted and he could have taken the hammer that was lying around somewhere and smacked him on the head. Maybe he didn't want to kill him, or there is something more confusing at work like you say, but the previous movie just doesn't support it. Why go to terminal 13 to leave your boyfriend to start a new life with your husband?

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I don't get how Ben beats Lewis bloody and nearly unrecognizable with the bug spray canister, and then thirty seconds later his face is fine and he's up and chasing them.

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We saw his head smashed in but that seemed to have been a hallucination too. A few seconds later we see the same shot with his head and face largely intact. Was still a bit strange though.

OR maybe Lewis died there and Ben only hallucinated Ben later at Terminal 13? And what Lewis did was actually Ben going crazy and arguing with himself a la fight club? Well doesn't really make sense though.

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