Didn't 'get' the ending
OK, only took a few scenes to suss out he was back in time, and that Terry the dodgy boyfriend was his dad, so was Tony the young kid we see in flashbacks?
Decent film, but the 'twist' at the end was lost on me.
from what i can tell from watching it. is he went back in time and stopped his parents
getting together and also having flashbacks to his childhood. I get the feeling if you're
a fan of time travel probably not going to like the film as much.
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But IF he stopped them getting together, he wouldn't have been born?
Obviously, when you see him with grey hair in that pub, hes obviously a VERY different person to the nasty wannabee gangster we saw earlier, but I still didn't get it at all
I assumed he was in purgatory and being judged or whatever.
She's a man, it's a sled, he's dead already.
The film has some bad reviews because I think people have come to it expecting something very different. I saw this last night and thought it was very good.
The film takes reality and turns it on its head to explore the central character's past, and how his parents came to meet; we get enough clues at the beginning to figure this out. With the other flash backs we slowly come to realize how his past was affected by this, and how his childhood has made him the violent thug he has become. What we have in this plot is a kind of fantastic realism in which themes of consequences are explored (there are consequences that result from everything we do and the things we fail to do), the disappointments of love and life, and the existential redemption from the regrets and decisions we have to make.
In the final few minutes of this film, our protagonist has to make the decision to save his mother's life by ensuring she does not go to England, with the realization that it will mean he will never have existed, with all the consequences of that decision. This is where reality is turned on its head for the sake of allegory. One could see the final moments when he walks into the field as a take on the meaning of existence or, from a religious aspect, his journey into an afterlife. There's the alternate ending, a double-meaning in that we realize this may have happened in his head in the final moments before his death, where he explores what may have happened given a different set of circumstances.Do you want to go to the toilet, Albert?