I dont understand the ending of this movie.
Once Richard goes into Dick's room and see Dick is not there, then it flashes to Dick 25 years later basically he is confused, wondering where he was.
So is that the "back in time" Dick or Richard? If it was the "back in time" Dick, then he says to Jackie "remember a guy named Dick" at the party....so does that mean, there was another Dick that tried to change Dick's mind from running away but he failed at that attempt.
I don't think it's that confusing. Once Young Richard stayed in town instead of running away the future was changed. Dick spent time in the past with his younger self and when he returned to the future I don't think any time had passed but his whole life was different because his past self made different choices.
The Eraser room does two things: Cleans erasers and takes our innocence.
if you are saying the flash-forward is old Richard and he made the comment about "a guy named Dick" to JAckie that means there had to be another Dick, if this end of the movie "older" Richard was actually younger Richard, then Richard shouldnt of been confused with his surroundings.
shareSeveral things made the story confusing:
The two men didn't look enough alike for one to be an older version. Most people would still be recognizable after 25 years, especially if you put the two versions side by side. They would at least look like father and son.
Also, the house and clothing at the end looked like now (2011)--not something 25 years from now, when there will supposedly be all the gadgets and advances that Dick talked about. The look of things will undoubtedly have changed a lot in 25 years.
And Jackie had not aged 25 years.
In answer to your question, there wasn't another Dick character. The "back in time" Dick did work in the office for a while, helped Richard to change the course of his life, and then suddenly was whisked forward 25 years to where he came from, only to find that things were different in his life than when he left them because he had done things differently as a young man. Jackie would vaguely remember the guy named Dick from the restaurant,( but doesn't recall that he looked an awful lot like her husband looks now).
When Dick arrives 25 years later, he doesn't seem to recognize anything, doesn't know it's his anniversary, or that he has grandchildren. Does that mean he doesn't know anything that happened to him in the new version of his life since he was Richard's age? Everyone's going to think he's lost his memory.
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I just finished watching the movie. Liked it until the end. I don't know if it was Richard or Dick that went into the future, or whether they were really in the future at all, since Jackie and Moose didn't age a day. I mean, seriously? I want her plastic surgeon.
shareThe old Dick returned to his origin, the future. But THIS future had been changed by his meddling in his past self. Therefore, his whole life had changed. Actually, he missed 25 years of living by going to the past, but at least he had a wife now, which he wouldn't have had if he hadn't gone back and meddled in his own past and changed the events.
Very simple.
Enrique Sanchez