Okay it's been months, tell me, how'd the violin playing TRANSPORT Alex?
The discussions on these boards have been so high-brow and deep, and I love it, especially for a film that is so deserving of it. Literally go read some of Emvan's musings and posts on these boards, and I promise you'll literally feel like a smarter person.
To the immediate question at hand tho. Arguably the biggest scene in the film, where everything ends and seemingly 'wraps up'. We see Alex finally pick up the Violin, plays it, the facade of his world is torn away, and he is "transported"(that may not be the best word for it) to where Sam is, effectively saving her life.
I've heard a few thoughts hinting around the "how and why" of this event, but no conclusive point tho. I like what Hynes77759 posited in another thread about the Music in the film being God(or some transcendent force). But it seems even Hynes stopped short of explaining how that interpretation would explain Alex's sudden transportation in the last scene.
My question:
I get the violin playing changing Alex's respective world, but how/why did it bring him right to Sam in her respective world as well as the power to change events in time?
I think Dongseo has got the closest to explaining it, when he/she said this in another thread:
But what about him be transported to Sam's world? I thought about this for a moment and I think the director is trying to convey something more than a guy playing a violin which mystically transports him to another world/dimension. Our past often haunts and hurts us. But what if we embrace our past? What if we accept our past and move forward? Could we do things we never thought possible? Could we be taken to places we never thought possible?
I like this, I like that a lot actually. Still, even that meaning is somewhat ambiguous(and maybe that's the best we'll ever get from Jamin Winans who seems to want this viewers to think and debate rather than know everything). But I was wondering if there was any more opinions about that very last 'transportation' scene?
questions to ponder
1)Violin playing transports Alex right to where Sam is. Does this simply mean it put him right where he really wanted to be?
2)Violin playing actually brings Alex "back in time" to save Sam, since technically the car crash already happened. Is that simply some type of metaphorical relationship, wherein since Sam saved Alex by rewriting the script, now it's Alex's turn to save Sam?
3)The violin playing itself is what flips the car. Is Alex the new Neo? Can he dodge bullets and flip cars at will?, lol...Or does this simply mean that Alex now has some modicum of the power to live and lead his own life. That the car flipping is a sign that he is back in control.
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