Which makes it even more odd that he would have fresh wounds. For something meaningless, it is demonstrably present and deliberate. Even in having him wheal her off, the part that "doesn't matter", is delivered on the forefront of the "symbol". She has been waiting for him in a wheal chair since the time she died. Or, even more odd, in a place where time is meaningless, she greats him in a wheal chair as a result of wounds that occurred years ago in his mortal time. It's either meaningful or sloppy direction. It's odd.
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13 years ago
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kovyvok
13 years ago
Essentially those are the scenarios I was thinking about. The first, which seems like the most likely scenario, as I said earlier, is odd. Not bad. But odd and interesting.
The second is less interesting. It could be that time in that place is meaningless and whatever condition you are in when you pass is how you appear there for whatever reason. And then they move on together. Or an infinitely many other possibilities. Not to interested in that.
The third, also very possible (not at all realistic obviously) given how he and she kept surviving things that they should have survived. And this was just one more series of events that they survived but shouldn't have. Of course that would mean she is in a wheel chair because she was paralyzed. Which is possible but never suggested via a particular wound that would paralyze.
It's a movie that sticks with you a bit after you watch it. But this scene had me wondering more than I should have.
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MrBelette
11 years ago
The director could also have put it just to puzzle viewers. You never know with these movie guys, they're sometimes mischievous.
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stuffhotstuff
11 years ago
Some very interesting ideas here and your right the film and especially the ending stick with you for a while after watching this... I thought the movie had maybe gone all Gladiator on us at the end and that he was meeting up with his love in heaven... But as a previous poster has pointed out he has all the wounds/scars from the children's attack, and she is in a wheel chair.. seems a little odd she will spend all eternity in a wheelchair? maybe he survived, I will have to watch it again sometime.
I thought a good ending would of been him killing the dirty cop and saying this feud ends with us.. and then the young boy who would be the dirty cops son vows revenge in the future. creating a vicious circle of revenge and violence that goes on and on.. then we could have cut away to the lovers being together thinking its all over... but when in reality the young boy is planning his revenge for many years in the future
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keith-s-russell
9 years ago
stuffhotstuff, that's what I thought the ending should have been too. As it is I can only think that the girl survived because she was only shot in the legs, hence the wheelchair, and the guy survived because somehow the boy missed any major organs and he miraculously lived, as stupid as that is.
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