The Title

Casey Affleck said that the title has no logic/sense to it really and is merely misheard song lyrics - David Lowery thought they were the lyrics in a song and they weren't actually even the lyrics. To me though, I reckon this while it may have truth to it factually is mostly Mr Affleck being jocular and charming rather than doing serious talkings in an interview.. …

Anyway, it obviously doesn't have any particular specific meaning other than what you take from it. Since, seemingly it was taken from song-like lyrics and given the words themselves, I think it fits with the film which is in itself I think like a kind of song in the way it conveys it's feeling.

For me, this title fits perfectly with how Bob tells his stories and fantasies. If someone happened upon Bob’s remains or spoke of his “legacy” I daresay he’d be pleased with the kind of epitaph the film’s title imposes…? It feels like the ultimate mythological epitaph for Bob to me.

As a side note, to me, at times, the characters do feel while not like saints, kind of incorporeal - almost as though if you were to reach out and touch them they’d disperse into the air: Ruth and Sylvie’s relationship is so idyllic, literally angelic: with Sylvie cherubic and Ruth sometimes looking like the Madonna; Patrick is the definition of gentility such that he seems almost a cipher to it, and Bob is so consumed by his love for Ruth that she and his daughter are literally his entire world. This, for me creates a sense that all of these beings are close to the film’s title somehow and adds to the mythic, fairytale nature of the world we are in.

Well I talked a lot about something that the answer likely just is so simple as the Director misheard the lyrics in some song… hahaha!!!

The answer is in the Trivia section.