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hallucinations hard to believe (spoiler)

posted 8 months ago by mannerism (74)
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She started hallucinating just a few days after the storm, right? At the same time and later, she is doing sensible things that require a lot of thought and care such as jury rigging a mast, suturing her forehead, using a sextant, etc.

Hard for me to believe she could swim to the dinghy and go through the motions of dragging a non-existent body aboard. Or did she just hallucinate that, too, just like she hallucinated watching Richard become further and further emaciated and necrotic? Later, she should have assumed she was hallucinating the bird as well.

The movie wasn't great but I still liked the movie overall; However, it was hard to believe that the hallucinations were realistically portrayed.

[–] ExTechOp (2757) 8 months ago

The big reveal came when she consciously and deliberately said she’d have to let him go. He disappeared, and she didn’t seem at all surprised (although it sure did surprise ME)

That suggested to me that she wasn’t truly hallucinating so much as imagining on purpose, acting a little crazy to keep herself from going totally crazy

The writers basically expounded on something Tami told them directly, that while she knew Richard was dead, she could hear his voice in her head egging her on and refusing to let her quit. She knew it was her own imagination, but it was so compelling that it kept her motivated.

So no, I don’t think the character in the film literally dragged a non-existent body aboard. I think, in retrospect, when she looked out with the binoculars and paused to close her eyes, THAT was when she IMAGINED going out to save Richard.

And that’s why she reacted to the bird the way she did. She knew all along that she’d been imagining Richard. She never consciously imagined the bird, so she knew it had to be real.