Confused but moved - spoilers - sort of

Like several people I was left with way too many questions after watching this movie. However that's not unusual for me as I never seem to get the hidden meanings or even obvious clues that writers leave for the audience. I'm not a complete moron, more like I just completely get he wrong message so I'm in my own little world sometimes (naive more that simple simple perhaps) . Maybe that's why this film appealed so much. It has such a dreamlike quality in some ways. People appear from nowhere and we are expected to fill in the gaps. One minute you're in a soviet state the next you're at a train station in London. No explanation needed if you're in a nightmare. There is the whole "don't wake me up" theme.

They're all living in a nightmare, why not eat your sandwiches along the way. What would be the point of killing the hybrid, the nightmare will continue one way or another. Also isn't that something Powell would have said? "Go ahead kill me". What was there to live for? Maybe it made Powell realise they were all just going through the motions. Or that it was all a matter of perception as to who should live or die.

Crows are very symbolic of life, death and the mysteries of life, deception, they are tricksters. Just like Goethe. I didn't even really get the significance of that name "Goethe". Is it because Goethe (the german) saw the way we viewed things differently, had his own theories about how the brain manipulates messages that the eye sees. Powell saw an irony in the name but I didn't get it.

See? Confused, but I haven't stopped thinking about it since I watched it. I'd love to sit down with the writer and listen to his explanation (and I usually despise movies which need a conference to make sense) but maybe that would ruin everything. Maybe it's all like one big dream interpretation and those can be infinite.