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The ending

posted 13 years ago by alberikc
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One more who saw this film, yay :) Greetings from Slovenia.

I really liked the movie, I thought it was very clever, well acted and beautifully shot. What intrigues me the most is that David would in the end send 'the other' Maja and Leonie into a world where Leonie is supposed to be dead. I know they were running for their lives and any option is better than being dead but the consequences of that are only to be imagined.

Interestingly enough I didn't speculate on the door itself, it's obvious by how quickly David 'accidentally' kills off his past self that he is more than willing to give himself another chance for happiness and the origin of the door is irrelevant. For me, the door is an idea and a question, what would happen, what would you do, if you could travel a tunnel to your past and had the chance to correct your mistakes.

[–] dharding-3 13 years ago

Please dont read this if you haven't seen the film yet.

If you enjoyed this then you should watch the original Stepford Wives, which is beautiful but disturbing. I just kept thinking that because David had saved Leonie (who by the way reminded me of a young Anna Paquin ), his friend Max not only died, but his boys would never be born.

I also kept wondering if the butterfly was symbolic of the 'butterfly effect'.

[–] gheri-linecher 12 years ago

when david went through the door max was still drinking in the pub and his boys at home.time is a minus infinite to plus infinite scale formed from infinite paralel universes.yes,the butterfly seems to be a symbol of this theory.so this theory says :"from minus infinite to plus infinite you have as many universes as many infinite you have until you go back to change something and than to add more infinte universes changed.I go to bed now.
escuse my english please.if i could go back in time I would learn it in school.

[–] kwraikarn 13 years ago

Yes, I wondered that too. Where would they go? Where would they live? I suppose Max would be their first option. Or family (parents/grandparents), who would accept with gratitude that Leonie was back.

I also wondered how they would explain the disappearance of Leonie from the world where she was still supposed to be alive, with no swimming pool accident. ?

Or are we to assume that nothing is 'real' in that world, and everyone conspires to keep things as they are?

One of the unavoidable paradoxes of time'travel stories, I suppose.

Loved it all the same.

[–] thenicotinefairy 13 years ago

I imagine that in the past world, Leonie's death would be covered up, since the entire neighbourhood and even the police were in on the conspiracy.

What bugs me is that all the people of the neighbourhood have to do is wait five years, then go to the other side of the tunnel and meet Maja and Leonie as they are coming out.

It depends on whether the tunnel is really to the past or if it's to a parallel universe. Is Leonie still dead in the future world or did the past get rewritten? Will they go through the tunnel and find there are now two Leonies in the future? I guess not, since those who killed their past selves didn't disappear. So it's probably a parallel universe, but I wish they had made that more clear.

[–] UnseenAcademical 11 years ago

Just watched this and enjoyed it very much. Strangely I am in the middle of reading Stephen King's "11.22,63" which deals with travelling back to the past to try to change history. Regarding kraiwkarn's comment that 'finding Max would be an option' - this wouldn't be possible as David has killed him 5 years' earlier.

[–] Lucy9596 11 years ago

'finding Max would be an option' - this wouldn't be possible as David has killed him 5 years' earlier.

No, these are parallel worlds, he still exists in the future.

If the idea is to stay alive, I'm driving.

[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

...and everyone conspires to keep things as they are?

Well the two cops seemed more than happy to allow younger Maja to be killed right there on the street, if David hadn't intervened.

[–] spookyrat1 7 years ago

Just rewatching this fine film again just recently prompts me to say that I am a little disappointed the director sees fit to suddenly go into action movie mode during the last 5 minutes, when, until then, apart from a few isolated moments of graphic violence, everything had been relatively low key. I'm not quite sure why we had to have very overweight Siggi suddenly seeing fit, to athletically jump on to David's car's bonnet. And I think some explanation needed to be provided as to why Sigg's words seemed to carry so much weight in the community (pardon the pun). He even is seen telling the cops what to do. Apart from this I loved the twist of older Maja suddenly turning up, thereby ratcheting the suspense up even further. This is a clever, thought-provoking film.🐭

[–] Jorgosch 11 years ago

I don't think time travel was the topic of this movie at all, but being stuck in Limbo until you're healed and ready to move on.

For a time travel movie with a similar tone watch "Los Cronocrimenes" (Time Crimes) and for a movie with a similar topic watch "Triangle" (although for that one you really need a good stomach).

[–] beherenow3 10 years ago

I also thought of Timecrimes, which was really creepy in its own way. Will have to check out Triangle.

[–] Razariel666 10 years ago

Yeah, Time Crimes came to my mind too ;) But in Die Tuer its clear that these are parallel worlds in different timelines. In Time Crimes the main character stays in the same world and duplicates itself three times due time travel.
Both very cool movies.
Did anyone see Primer? Many people say its the best time travel movie ever, but its hard to find a copy of it here in germany.
Triangle is also on my watchlist.

[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

...but the consequences of that are only to be imagined.

Yes, re-entering a world where she'd died 5 years previous. Maja and Leonie would have to move to a new community.

[–] RothmanMax 8 years ago

I think the real question is where is this DOOR?!

nobody lives forever...