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What makes you think he saved the train in the original universe/timeline?
From my understanding the source code program works a lot like time lines in "Back to the Future":
Colter Stevens' consciousness is being projected through a black hole into a parallel universe, where everything is the same except that he is in the body of Sean Fentress now. By that ...
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That's not a 21, that's another language. It's a Korean transliteration of the name 'Rekall' so people who read Hangul (the written Korean language) and not English can understand the ad. Fortunately, Hangul is relatively easy to read, and is well-documented online. After some googling, I found a few tutorials, and a handy Wikipedia reference. Hangul has ...
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Per director Stanley Kubrick:
The ballroom photograph at the very end suggests the reincarnation of Jack.
How does it relate to the movie?
It sort of echoes the "You’ve always been the caretaker." line earlier in the film, which suggests something along the lines that his soul is perpetually stuck at/destined to end up at that hotel.
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You need keys. We need to help Teddy to find his keys! :-)
Joke aside, you should give attention to what Teddy says directly before the linked video.
Teddy: "So you lie to yourself to be happy."
and later:
Teddy: "Yeah I guess I can only make you remember the things you want to be true. Like Jimmy down there."
Leonard: "He's not the right ...
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Basically what happens is
Donnie ends up sending the jet engine back, and in the new timeline (yay time travel!) he stays in bed, gets killed, and prevents most of the events from happening near the end of the movie.
Wiki link
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None of the different means you can use to guess whether Cobb is in a dream or not at the end of the movie are completely reliable.
The spinning top has huge issues - the fact that it was Mal's totem, that it appears to act in a simplistic way that perhaps other people could dream, hence invalidating its usefulness - and of course the fact that we are never ...
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At the start of the movie, the main character (as a boy) is intrigued by ideas from multiple religions, but his father says everyone must choose just one religion. So from the beginning, the core dilemma facing the main character involves his personal understanding of God.
This dilemma is resolved by the end of the film: when the main character shares the ...
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There is a wedding ring theory which leads to the conclusion that he is indeed back in the real world. A quick Google will turn up a number of explanations of that theory.
On the otherhand, Christopher Nolan refuses to answer the question, indeed here he seems to go so far as to insist there is no answer. Personally I think that's nonsense: either the ...
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Here is a detailed comparison between the Theatrical and Extended Director's Cut. One of the differences is an additional scene at the end:
Doug looks down and removes the bandage from the spot where the injection tattoo was burned in at Rekall – it cannot be seen anymore.
One could interpret this as a hint that Quaid is still in a dream world. ...
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It is retroactively setting up the "original" The Thing (1982) for which it is a prequel. The starting scene of the 1982 movie is two Norwegians in a helicopter chasing and shooting at a sled dog that finds its way to an American camp.
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There are 4 different endings:
Theatrical Ending:
Evan travels back to the birthday party where he first meets Kayleigh and whispers to her "I hate you and if you ever come near me again I'll kill you and your whole damn family." Kayleigh runs away crying.
After a montage of his memories disintegrating, Evan returns to present day ...
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It's been a few years since I've seen that movie but the actual DVD cover had an insert that showed a time map to help make sense of the movie. It is two different planets as it was in the original novel Monkey Planet and Mark Walhberg does end up back on Earth (not a duplicate Earth) in the current time. Apparently the time vortex works in reverse so that ...
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The scene goes like this:
Joel: I can't see anything that I don't like about you.
Clementine: But you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.
Joel: Okay.
Clementine: [pauses] Okay.
Clementine is warning him that she will eventually feel bored with ...
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This is an interview with Edwin Lyman, PhD, scientific director for the Nuclear Control Institute, in November 2001.
Member Question: What are the levels of radiation risk at 10 miles, 100 miles, 100,000 miles from ground zero? How far can the radiation travel? Is that based solely on wind direction?
Edwin Lyman: Well, again one should distinguish ...
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From Wikipedia (source is Paramount pictures themselves):
First:
The DVD includes two alternative endings, which vary only slightly. The first alternative ending shows Rob and Beth exiting the Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue station instead of on the Ferris wheel and features different sirens in the background as Rob talks to the camera.
And the ...
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From Wikipedia:
The Driver makes a final phone call to Irene to tell her he is leaving, and says that meeting her and Benicio was the best thing that has ever happened to him [...]
[...] That evening, Irene knocks on the Driver's apartment door, with no response. The Driver drives into the night.
From 'Drive' Ending Explained:
When we last see ...
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I found a very interesting article based on the differences between movie and the novel. I'll quote some of them, that should answer your question:
Robert Zemeckis, director of Forrest Gump, chooses not to include several adventures that are present in the book and to change the character’s personality.
This significant changes play an important ...
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First let me tell you that the ending of the movie is intentionally kept dim because it is the main attraction part of the movie. There are a lot of successful movies where a question is kept alive intentionally through out the movie and never a perfect answer is given because public like mystery and they likes solving it themselves if no answer is given ...
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I think the ending is intentionally ambiguous, so each member of the audience can draw their own conclusion. Even if Ottway kills the Alpha, will the rest of the pack let him survive?
You might not want to read the spoiler text if you didn't watch past the credits.
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According to Chuck co-creator Chris Fedak, Sarah's memory is slowly returning and Chuck and Sarah will fall in love together again; it will just take time.
From an interview with Chuck co-creator Chris Fedak:
Alan Sepinwall: I want to start at the end. They sit on the beach, Chuck tells Sarah the story of their relationship, she laughs, and we've gotten ...
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I'll admit I'd never seen it in cinema, so I was unaware of some of these bits.
The only reason I could see to cut those bits would possibly to alter the censor ratings, it's a well known fact that sometimes films (and tv series) when rated get given one thing for cinema/broadcast but when they are put onto a media format sometimes the show/films wants to ...
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I think it is a mistake to take the events of Donnie Darko literally, including the ending.
The main character Donnie is developing schizophrenia. The schizophrenia causes Donnie to believe he is at the center of a time-travel adventure that just might save the universe.
The movie shows how this hallucinated fantasy would unfold if it were reality. So ...
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The movie shows an alternate timeline that diverts from the real timeline. Donnie Darko should have died in the beginning, but he avoided it, because he was lured out by Frank. The movie is about Donnie Darko learning about the theorie of alternative timelines.
At the end the diverted timeline starts to collapse and the world is destroyed, as Frank ...
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During a film studies class we took a long look at Pan's Labyrinth, and some interesting observations were made.
My memory is sketchy, but to answer your question it is my understanding that two story threads are unraveling here; one is Ophelia's fantasy-laced ascent into womanhood (symbolized by the 'blood-letting' at the end which announces her arrival), ...
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I never really considered it to be a territorial issue as much as it was for her to seize the only win-win outcome for herself:
Jeanie already faced-off (or rather, kicked in the face) Mr. Rooney, mistaking him for a normal burglar. Seeing that he was correctly pursuing Ferris for truancy (meaning Ferris was truant, not that his methods were ...
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I would say the focus of the ending of the movie should not be on Is it a mistake of the society or is it wrong to live a solitary life,rather on the fact what he actually said when dying i.e. "Happiness is only real, when shared". By this quote he meant, if you want to find happiness in life, you can't enjoy it alone. Share it with your friends and family ...
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As I remember it from the book's ending, Hannibal kept Clarice more-or-less continually drugged and they live happily ever after.
The difference is covered in AboutFilm's note on the ending, in 12 paragraphs and a synopsis of the book's ending. An extract:
Admittedly, I haven't read it, but the
novel's ending sounds just awful to me.
And yet, it ...
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(Caveat: no disrespect intended to the man or his family. All information below is personal opinion, and mostly about the artistic decisions of the movie makers.)
You wrote:
Q: “In the end when he is dying his last words are ‘Happiness is only real when shared.’"
Not quite. He wrote that into some book (with “Moscow” and various Russian names in the ...
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Being the optimist I am, I choose a more upbeat ending for the film. It all has to do with the fact, that they both hear the tapes that were recorded of themselves when going to get the initial treatment done. When Clementine comes to Joels apartment at the very end, listening to the tapes he comes to a realization. That in retrospect, the relationship he ...
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If you notice carefully (I had to pause the DVD for this) - for a fraction of a second, there is a scene in which Sammy Jenkins is sitting in a chair and for just a fraction, he turns into Leonard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MUnDhxAif0
(see at 0:25)
A more detailed explanation is here.
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