Perhaps the setting was a place of purgatory for both men

My thoughts exactly. I first started thinking of it, when White told he couldnt see Black anywhere on the platform. He insisted he checked, so, where did he come from? Maybe White was badly injured by the train and this place was where Black attempts to save a lost soul to make good on what he's done in his lifetime (and he died in the prison when he got in a fight with the other inmate (jailhouse story)

I just finished watching this movie and I gotta say, this is a very interesting point of view. I like your take on it.



"Well that's the magic word. Once you say 'racism', the other side loses automatically".

Could it be possible that Black also committed suicide? At one point White asks him what is the worst thing he has ever done. Black says that he can't tell him cause that would make White leave instantly. Also, he adds that he has told it to a friend of his, a man of God, who had nothing to say. Seems to me like he is talking about Jesus here.

That is exactly what I thought too.

About halfway through the movie, that thought crossed my mind. I really enjoyed this movie, and possibilities such as the one you're positing is one of the reasons why. The 90 minutes flew by.

~j~

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...actually he sits on the couch.
Just finished my first viewing of this.
Best,

I was getting that vibe too. I figured there would be some kind of angle here at one point, and I got the impression that he had indeed died and he was in his purgatory review. I figured Black would be either an angel (perhaps as plainly a sinner tasked with redeeming himself by guiding others, if not plainly some divine guide) or actually god himself.

Then when White went for the door and Black kept warning him about what's outside, I thought they were really starting to lay this symbolism on thick - I was expecting there to be absolutely nothing outside that door. I feel like their exchange towards the end of that struggle, right after Black says "You know what's out there," they go verbatim with this and White seems to be aware of this as a plausible situation for him to be in, as well, like hes figured it out.

Ultimately the end threw me a lot more because of it, though. White leaves into a hallway - though I still don't know what's beyond that section - and Black gives us a cryptic prologue with a rising sun that either implies they were really two dudes hanging out in an apt. or some sort of symbolism that eludes me. If it speaks towards that purgatory idea somehow, it's really tangential with it.