the ending - The Reconstruction of William Zero (2015) Discussion

[–] sewellanne 9 years ago

Just finished watching it and wondering the same. I think he must have cloned his son so they could really go back to how things were?

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[–] tigerbos 9 years ago

That was my take on it as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-09OhQPiIg#t=85

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[–] doppelana 8 years ago

interesting, I just assumed it was a memory.. 15 months seemed a bit fast to me to get away and settled in a new life and set up a new clandestine cloning lab and get living results. Also seemed strange that his wife, uh Jewels?, would buy into that. Also, knowing the demonstrated track record of clones.. tumors, blindness, death.. I couldn't see them wanting to do that to themselves. Bring their 'son' back into their lives for a bit, knowing the health degradation that would soon take him right back out of their lives.

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[–] mmq1 9 years ago

I'm quite sure it was his cloned son, and I saw it coming.

The locket, contained hair from his son.

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[–] kiki808 9 years ago

Thanks, I forgot about the locket with their son's hair. Makes sense now.

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[–] jason_nader 9 years ago

Spoiler alerts you dipsticks!!!

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[–] oscar_ray2_jimenez 9 years ago

Ple-aze!!! The goddamned post's title is "the ending" and you come in and complain about spoilers? What were you expecting to read there, lyrics from the Ellie Goulding song? Jeez!!!!

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[–] trish722 8 years ago

Ple-aze!!! The goddamned post's title is "the ending" and you come in and complain about spoilers? What were you expecting to read there, lyrics from the Ellie Goulding song? Jeez!!!!

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[–] hemroid 9 years ago

How many Williams do you think there actually was? I assumed there had to be some failures prior to actually making one that was acceptable.

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[–] mtouchprod 9 years ago

I don't think there can be more than one more clone, because they said four samples of the cloning serum were stolen and there were three clones accounted for.

William cloned himself, and then the clone made a clone of itself - and they apparently cloned the son too, leaving just one more vial of serum.

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[–] starspangledgirl 9 years ago

But there was a body buried in the yard so that's one other

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[–] arto-helenius 8 years ago

There were 9 proxies on that computer data and 3rd was terminated and 8th and 9th were alive. So 3rd proxy was that body buried outside.

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[–] LordManhammer 8 years ago

The ending scene was labeled "15 months later."

Clearly the couple decided to create one of the fast-developing clones William's lab had been developing, but that was an odd choice. Not only will they miss his babyhood, but he'll be an adult before long. Plus, without a living precursor, there would be no memories to extract and import into the clone's mind, like William did with his own clones. The fast-growing child would suddenly be 6 again with no memories of his earlier life.

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[–] trish722 8 years ago

LordManhammer

Yes! Good points!

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[–] empathy44 8 years ago

Clones in movies are magical constructs that do what is needed to be done.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin

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[–] keenanllison 8 years ago

I instantly assumed that the child's father was Proxy 9. That would explain the rapid development of the child since Proxy 9 was created with the growth agent that was being developed by Next Corp (your DNA is everywhere).
Anyone else have any thoughts on this angle?

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