Can anyone explain the ending?
I missed the start
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The ending..wow. Okay , his sister goes in to clean his flat at the end. (Because he was sectioned) and one newspaper clipping she found was of a boy who drowned at a pool. Her shock revelation is because her son sees the boy. (Basically proving he wasn't crazy and he does genuinely see dead people .It's been passed on to her son ) Bloody amazing film
I agree with you Urbanangel. and I was SURE some people would ask " what about the end".. come on... Every time you dont have the classic american blockbuster for the average dumb guy, on this website you'll always found idiots who dont get anything when it comes to just make a little tiny effort.. Art is not about force feeding you already made crap down your throat. It's about making you think! To me one of the greatest movie of 2015 to this point.
shareyes it made me think,how silly this movie was.i started laughing when the car hit the pylon and the girl went through the windshield and died,that was one of the high points of this very bad, boring waste of time movie.by the very few posters on this board I guess not to many people have seen it or they just have nothing to say,it left them speechless.
sharesorry, i'd start another 'question" but don't know how. when do we first see that bug in plastic paper weight because i can't find where we do before he goes to his sister's house and he recognizes it on the shelf. then his son gives it to him and latter so does his sister at the end. where do we 1st see it and why does it keep showing up besides validation of it being real? thanks.
sharesorry, i'd start another 'question" but don't know how. when do we first see that bug in plastic paper weight because i can't find where we do before he goes to his sister's house and he recognizes it on the shelf. then his son gives it to him and latter so does his sister at the end. where do we 1st see it and why does it keep showing up besides validation of it being real? thanks.
Hi bludeman. I've watched this excellent film twice now, and I think we first see the glass paperweight when young Jack is in his father's shed. Jack drops the glass paperweight when his father startles him. His father asks Jack to look after the thing; but after the father's suicide and Jack's being sent into 'care' the paperweight is presumably left behind with Jack's mum and sister.
So it's not surprising that it turns up later at Jack's sister's house, where her son has found it. Jack asks the boy to look after it, just as his father had asked him years before.
The damaged glass paperweight with the dead insect inside could be a metaphor for Jack himself, damaged by life and seeing dead people through a fractured 'lens'. When the thing is handed on, it becomes the same metaphor for his sister's son - also psychic and similarly emotionally damaged.
The non-linear narrative, with flashbacks and visions repeatedly cutting in, does make this story more challenging, but I really can't find a thing wrong with this film. Direction, acting, script, editing - everything is spot on.
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Actually I think Jack is a bit meshed up on some of the events when he was a kid. As far as I understood the father commits suicide. And I think Jack somehow doesn't realise the father is dead hence the laughing at the funeral. I think the psychiatrist was partly right about this part. I think it is then the father returns, startles the son so he drops the paperweight. We know Jack has been looking for him. So maybe the father came back to help Jack deal with guilt or not relating to the father's death, or both. But in the end the father is "pushed" away as the mother moves on which is too painful to see happening without being able to do anything. Jack who is upset with his mother for getting rid of the father's things, put the things together backward and thinks she cheated on him causing the suicide. Basically I think that we never see the father alive.
This would of course make the metaphor of a broken Jack more strong as it happens when the father comes back.
Me and my wife quite liked it too. But really don't get why they sell these things as horror.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.