In the movie Camino says theres something in the sofa and the movie finishes there. Anybody got what was in the sofa?
shareI think its suppsed to be God. Because Camino says God is in the room just before her father starts filming her.
sharesupposed to be there, was God. The director keeps the suspense to see if the film actually captured God, but at the resolution, we see that Camino was in delirium at that moment. It's an extremely bitter ending, a family has been completely destroyed by fanatism, but at least, Camino found her way to some relief, through her imagination. I wonder how the movie is going to be received in some markets.
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Camino's father's film reveals an empty sofa, as the above poster say, it may just be Camino's delirium or like Mister Meebles he may only exist in people's imagination.
'Lady Sarah, whose emotions are as frozen as Kidman's forehead'...Australia Review, Times Online
Good point Mrs Mills.
Something else that reinforces that, in my opinion, is that after showing the empty sofa, the reel finishes, and we see scratches on the film, dust AND a red triangle, superimposed on the sofa. I think the triangle could also symbolize god (like the triangle with an eye inside), leaving it open to interpretation, as you point out.
According to Fesser, the triangle mark wasn't intended, and it shouldn't have appeared in that moment. Creepy.
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Nothing really, that's the thing.
shareIt's the message that the director/writer is trying to give. While Camino thinks it's God, actually there no one there. Nothing, just an empty chair.
Plus later (I think) they go again to tell the story of "mr whatev" at the beginning of the movie Camino says. I dont know the story. But when the father tells her she replies "I know the story and so do you". Refering to the part that he knows it all and can do it all (God), but he doesnt exists.
It's pretty clear that the movie has a anti religious message (against the catholic mainly). So much that even the tragedy of the family is less important than the message.
I agree, and yet disagree. I do not feel the movie had such an anti-religious message, but more so the snakeoil religion that many subscribe to (opus dei). I felt the father represented the love people can feel for each other, which is why he found the original letters destined to Nuria and the letter destined to Camino. He felt true love instead of funneling it through religion.
Personally I'm agnostic, but I have a roman catholic background. This movie hit home hard and was incredibly powerful to watch. I could see the duality between finding love through Christ and directly to people. Mr. Meebles definitely had significance, and I think its correct to assume that he was a metaphor for God, but would it be so far fetched to consider him a metaphor for love?
It seems that many of the characters had faith in love, but it was absent from their lives. Divorce was brought up several times; the notion even between Camino's father and mother, the letters never delivered, family never there when needed, etc. Love is everything and nothing.
Anyways, as someone who doesn't really know if there is a God or not, I can definitely take an example of being strong and loving those around me. If God exists he'll be happy I did, and if he doesn't, well hopefully I can make those around me as happy as Camino did.
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Terrible movie.
And by the way, I really really doubt that the triangle was not intentional. I mean, the movie has no other visual artifacts like that and god's symbol mysteriously appears at the couch where god was supposed to be? C'mon!