Can anyone interpret the ending? Were the old man and women and Rudd and Hirsch all ghosts since it says in the beginning that four people lost their lives? That's my best guess.
shareI guess they were but ultimately why is that important to the story? What is the story DGG is trying to tell? I really liked the movie because I oove movies ABOUT every day people but im not fully sure what the point was. Rudd and Emile were fantastic though
No ,I think Alvin and Lance both were pretty much alive , because Alvin broke up with his GF on phone , ghosts dont do that , and Lance made out with an old lady , I think only that old lady was a ghost.
shareThe phone call and Alvin's stories could have been memories from their past. You never see his girlfriend on the other end of the phone. They don't communicate with anyone else in the movie aside from the old man and women who are probably also dead.
shareNo but , in the end you see other workers waving at them , I don't think they were dead , if they were , the director would have just given a little bit more hint ! it they all were ghost then why couldn't the old man see the old lady ! ,
shareInteresting take, almost kinda wish i thought of that. lol
My immediate thought was that the only ghost was the old Pilot lady; the old mans wife i assume..
Figured it was about overcoming lifes emotional/relationship troubles through friendship and the roller coaster-like process involved in everyday transcendence to be better. It was basically a double character study on love i found.. from two perspectives.
That Pilot Lady scene in the ashes was so damn heartbreaking. That made the entire movie for me, right there. Then transitioned into Paul Rudds comedic scene in a different burnt down house was a beautifully perfected balance.
Why, though, it was only Lance and Alvin that could see her is beyond me..
That's a good guess. Maybe another clue at that some point Alvin quotes a German poem at the end of the letter to his girlfriend that goes something like "Love is like ghost. Very few have ever seen the real thing."
It's also easy to imagine that they were caught by the forest fire while sleeping in their tent. The old man was probably intoxicated, sleeping in his truck, and the elderly woman was deaf. All plausible reasons why they did not escape in time.
Why would they paint roadstripes where all the residences have burned down and so next to no traffic? And would they really close down the whole road for what little traffic might have remained.
Then there is the scene with the three birds they throw out of the car. As if the birds feel no physical presence from them. I also think the two mules are ghosts, or rather apparitions, as they are called when animals. We se one has burn marks on it.
We never see Alvin break up with his girlfriend over the phone. Lance had made the woman pregnant six months before, maybe while he was still alive. It's kind of funny how much emphasis is put on Lance's horniness, but it could be argued that incorporal beings would have difficulty finding sexual satisfaction.
I think Alvin has accepted he is a ghost, why he says he has a need to be alone, and he sees love as spiritual, but the more immature Lance who sees love as carnal has a harder time accepting his new condition,
That the old man says he can't see the elderly lady is simply his way of telling Alvin and Lance that they are all invicible. Of course he can see her. Why else would he stop the truck for her?
Actually now, having thought it over, I think the OP hit the nail on the head.