Spoil Me for This

It's about a boy that wakes up in a hospital bed. He has almost no memories of how it happened. As he returns to normal life he attempts to rebuild some of his past memories. He finds out some key pieces, and his mind extrapolates a wider reality based on that information. Mainly this means he imagines his girlfriend is still alive and that he had a brother. He later finds out that this extrapolated reality is happening because of an implant in his brain.

His extrapolated self clashes with the real self as his real memories return. He had no brother and the girlfriend died in a car crash. The truth is that he attempted suicide after losing the girlfriend. This damaged a key piece of his brain and memory, requiring the implant in the first place.

Ultimately he accepts the loss of his girlfriend and demands that the implant be taken out. He does this knowing it will mean he will not remember her, or anything after the implant was inserted. He says a final goodbye to his imagined girlfriend, and the scene is abruptly cut.

The last scene is him waking up in a hospital bed. It's the same scene that the movie started with.



There is also a subplot where his family deals with an ugly divorce. His mom eventually attempts suicide, and the family sort of comes together again after that. It appears that this has some relevance to him ultimately deciding to choose the truth rather than live in the extrapolated reality caused by the implant.


There are some inconsistencies that I couldn't quite work out. It appears that, as his true memories return, his wounds (from the car crash that killed his girl friend) return as well. These are present at various parts of the movie in a non sequential manner. This may indicate that the scenes are viewed in a drastically altered order. It may also be that these simply indicate his "wounded self", as they appear just as he realizes his extrapolated reality isn't true. They seem to vary in appearance in a strange way - possibly this is oversight from makers of film.

Shadows fell on their futile ways, and then there was nothing more...