I watch the movie good amount of times but I'm still lost was the prince real when she went to save him on the adult asteroid? Or was when using her imagination while creating the book for the old man.
shareThat really lost me as well.
shareIm still wondering too.
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I think that's open to your own interpretation.
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Personally I think it was her imagination. She finds the prince exactly as she thought she would. When she leaves the aviator after the story is finished she worries that the little prince never made it back, etc. Some evidence present that suggest it was not real are reoccurring images from the real parts of the movie. The glass globe the stars are in looks like the vacuume cleaner with the stars she took off the ceiling. The plane spinning around after the stars are broken out, is the same as when the aviator places the toy plane on the string. The papers and fox get thrown in the trash, just like when her mother tosses them out. Another hint that it is not real is the fact that the little girl never mentions anything to the aviator about seeing the little prince.
The aviators encounter with the little prince changes the way he views the world. It is likely that the little girl chooses to imagine a story to help her cope with her world as well. The third act is mostly about accepting death. It is a theme present in the book as well, but not always touched on that much. The little girl goes on this adventure to find the little prince to help the aviator, what she really finds is the answer to her own fears about dead. The aviator will eventually die, and most likely soon. Dealing with the roses death helps her view the aviators impending death differently. She realizes that his presence is always going to be with her. That is what her journey was about. When she "gets back" she sees things differently. She visits him in the hospital and enjoys the time they have together. Like the rose, the aviator is unique to her. They have tamed each other and she has realized " what is essential is invisible to the eye."
thank you for your amazing answer instead of calling the OP an idiot or simply saying "it's up for you to decide", you actually made an excellent case :)
shareThis is the best answer/explanation about "the third act" of the movie. While the filmmakers cleverly leave just enough ambiguous so it can endlessly be debated, I'm convinced everything from when the drainpipe falls into the Aviator's yard to when the Girl's mother starts looking for her the next day is just a dream. The real giveaway is when the stuffed fox comes to life.
shareHow grown up of you lol
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"Did the prince make it to his home planet? Is he okay? Do you know for sure?" lol
"Life is a movie. Write your own ending. Keep believing. Keep pretending"-Kermit
I'm dumbfounded by how many times I have read that question. At first, I really thought that people were just trolling, today I'm not so sure.
Have so many people lost all sense of what is real and what is not, or have no idea what a metaphor or subtext is nowadays?
I wonder now how many people think that "The Blair Witch Project" is a real documentary...
You're a moron.
shareI kind of got lost in the movie and I think that's what happened to a lot of people.
And I don't mean the movie lost me. I mean I was thoroughly engrossed by everything else I didn't quite get the subtext of the third act. I knew she was dealing with grief, mortality of a (platonic) loved one, growing up too soon, etc. And I was curious to see how she would handle it and what she would learn. But because the movie unveiled everything so well, I got lost into it and her trip into space threw me off. So it's nice to know I'm not the only one that got a little confused. It's still a very good movie and wouldn't want to change it.
Also I'm 'Murican, so that could explain things too.
Yes, he was. The little girl just couldn't thought this whole story up, and it wouldn't get so much emotional impact on her if it was just a fantasy.
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