Questions tagged [analysis]
Understanding the underlying concepts and themes behind the film/TV-show and its different interpretations. Not to be used for direct plot discussions.
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Interpretation of the ending of Being There
What is the meaning of the final scene of Being There, where Chance walks on the pond's surface?
The film's Wikipedia page says something about a metaphor of Chance being seen as a messiah, but I don'...
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Why does Tim not pick up the gun in Jurassic Park?
When re-watching Jurassic Park (1993), I felt a bit awkward at the security room scene. While Lexi was trying to reboot the system, Alan and Ellen were trying to keep the door closed due to a ...
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What is meant when a show or film is called "dark"?
Sometimes the people involved in a TV Show or film refer to it being "dark".
Example: "This next season is going to be much darker than the first" - often said by a showrunner or actor.
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Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe Earth-199999 or Earth-616?
Which earth does the Marvel Cinematic Universe belong to? I remember in Thor: The Dark World, it was referred to as 616 by Erik Selvig:
But I remember lots of sources claiming it to be Earth-199999, ...
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Why is Gerald McCloy able to imitate sound effects only?
I recall watching 2005 TV series Gerald McBoing-Boing.
He was a human child living with his parents and their dog. He also had several friends of his age.
But he was odd. He was communicating with ...
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When Ember's mom in Elemental was first seen giving a love reading, were they two guys that she was reading?
I was watching the new movie Elemental, but as I watched it, it seemed like that, while Ember's mom was doing a love reading (near the beginning), one of the people she was reading seemed like a man.
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What's the significance of the polar bear having a Japanese name in Dolittle?
In the 2020 movie Dolittle (a.k.a The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle) there's a polar bear that is called Yoshi (a Japanese name). What's the significance of this name for a polar bear? Does the bonnet ...
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What was the opening scene in The Mandalorian S03E06 referencing?
In the opening scene of The Mandalorian (S03E06: Guns For Hire), viewers witness a situation where the former Night Owls or a group of Mandalorians led by Axe Woves gets involved in a situation where ...
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Do you have to be well versed in Mighty Mouse to understand Andy Kaufman's infamous SNL skit?
Andy Kaufman did a skit on the premiere episode of Saturday Night Live on October 11, 1975. Kaufman was virtually unknown at the time. This was before his Taxi fame and his other infamous ...
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Where did Bob Ross get his inspiration?
After watching the Bob Ross movie and learning about how he spent much of his life in Vermont, USA, I wonder where his inspiration for his paintings came from? If his paintings were from this area, ...
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What is the main theme in Breaking Bad?
Recently I was talking about Breaking Bad with someone who has not watched it and I was asked "What is the theme?" This question puzzled me and I got confused, what to answer. So I want to ...
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Is there any significance in the major characters of Breaking Bad having colors in their surnames?
Walter White (and his family)'s surname is a color.
Jesse Pinkman's surname has a color in it.
Is there any significance in this?
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What would an observer see when someone goes through the Turnstile in Tenet?
In the movie Tenet, after the high-speed car chase on the highway, Sator captures the Protagonist and his wife and takes them to a warehouse with a Turnstile. Initially, we are shown a bizarre ...
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What is the significance of the Crane?
Near the end of the film Over the Moon, Fei Fei meets a Crane and they have eye to eye contact and later she fixes her scarf and the Crane touches her hair while flying away.
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Who hired Malcolm Crowe?
In The Sixth Sense, several months(?) after an "incident", child psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) takes up a new case: 8-year old Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment).
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The Nazi swastika flag at the end of Platoon
As Platoon is an anti-war film, America is pictured as brutal conquerors. Is the Nazi swastika flag at the end of Platoon supposed to compare German occupation of the world during WWII to American ...
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Why do anime "spell everything out" for the audience?
Even for anime that target adult audiences (and thus may have higher level thinking/awareness than perhaps younger audiences), whenever there's a significant plot development, the anime characters ...
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Does Jesse go to jail?
This one hunts me down every time I watch the last episode of Breaking Bad. There are two points I argue in my head:
Jesse is shown doing woodwork as if he is reborn and his life changes taking the ...
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Did The Joker win the psychological battle over Batman in The Dark Knight?
I have watched the movie The Dark Knight many times. However, I still ponder who won the final psychological battle between Batman and The Joker.
I understand that The Joker failed to deliver on his &...
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Significance of the Light Effect in the film Aparichit during his transitions
I recently revisited the Indian movie Anniyan aka Aparichitudu, and 'Aparichit' to Telugu and Hindi viewers respectively. The film presents a compelling protagonist, Ramanujam, who grapples with ...
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Why is Bolivar Trask a person of short stature?
The character of Dr. Bolivar Trask from X-Men: Days of Future Past, who hates or at least fears the rising population of mutants as a threat for humanity and ultimately develops the Sentinels as a ...
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What is the significance of Peter and the Wolf in Blade Runner 2049?
In Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Niander Wallace has built a gigantic technology coorporation Wallace which has created among other things, a holographic companionship program seen through the character of ...
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Why isn't it a crime to wear a ghostface mask in public?
In the 2023 movie, Scream VI, near the end of the movie the protagonists decide to meet Kirby and trap ghostface(s) in order to kill them for good.
They go by train to reach their destination. Inside ...
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What's the meaning of this effect?
In The Departed (2006), before meeting Dignam and Queenan in the Special Investigation Unit building, Sullivan is
framed in a small circle as he stands near a traffic signal, which enlarges to full ...
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What's the significance of the car freshener?
The camera focuses on this car freshener at various points in Ocean's Eleven:
What's the significance of the car freshener?
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Is it fair to say Cohagen's rebel problems were his own doing?
Near the end of the 1990 film Total Recall, after Quato's Martian rebellion is found and wiped out (except for Melina), Quaid is brought to Cohagen who explains why he went to the trouble of creating ...
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Why didn't Vincent and Jules kill Marvin?
In Pulp Fiction, Vincent and Jules killed all the guys at Brett's apartment for stealing the briefcase from Marsellus Wallace but not Marvin.
Why didn't Vincent and Jules kill Marvin in the apartment?
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What does the title "Reservoir Dogs" mean?
Aside from speculations of the title coming from Tarantino's mispronunciation of the French film name, what meaning does Reservoir Dogs have in context of the actual story line?
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Significance of repeated use of Irma Thomas's song 'Anyone Who Knows What Love Is'?
In Black Mirror, Irma Thomas's song 'Anyone Who Knows What Love Is' got featured a lot:
In Fifteen Million Merits: Abi sings "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is" for the judges.
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What is the message of the movie Samsara?
Summary of the film Samsara (2001):
Tashi (Shawn Ku) began his training as a Buddhist monk at the age of five. Twenty years later, his relationships at the temple became strained after meeting 'Pema'. ...
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Why are there no significant female characters in "Reservoir Dogs"?
After watching ‘Reservoir Dogs’, a 1992 American neo-noir crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino about a group of diamond thieves whose heist goes wrong, I couldn’t help but notice the ...
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What's the significance of the white feather?
It was shown at beginning and end of the Forrest Gump (1994).
What's the significance of the white feather?
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Is the introduction of Snake Eyes a reference to Rope?
While I guess it isn't a big secret that Alfred Hitchcock has always been a huge inspiration for Brian De Palma, one possible connection between both of them has only occurred to me recently. The ...
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Is HBO's Generation Kill a musical?
Is Generation Kill a musical? I know, I know, the first answer to come to mind is no, but they are telling the story of a real event and place, and frequently the characters break into song. If I'm ...
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Why did Catherine continue her hate for her father?
In the 1949 black and white film The Heiress the titular character (Catherine) falls in love with a man (Morris).
Her father who is a doctor finds out from Morris' sister that he is just seeking the ...
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What was Hugo Stiglitz's motivation for killing Gestapo Officers?
In Inglorious Basterds, just as Stiglitz was introduced, we are informed of his previous run-ins with the German army for killing 13 Gestapo officers. What I've always seemed to miss was Stiglitz's ...
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"I did it for me. I liked it" - Is this a lie to convince Skyler?
In the final season of Breaking Bad, Walter says:
I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really - I was alive.
But I don't think he ever did it for himself. At every point of ...
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Was the driver intentionally screwing over the two goons at the start?
So in the first scene, the guy went for the good old 'get lost in the crowd' kind of trick by driving into the stadium full of people, leaving the car behind, altering his appearance quickly, and then ...
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What God do Gamora and Nebula believe in?
Several times throughout the movie "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" step-siblings Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Nebula (Karen Gillan) exclaim "Oh my God!" (capitalization from BluRay close captioning), ...
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What's the significance of repeating this scene in Nobody (2021)?
This below scene repeated so many times at the beginning of the movie:
What's the significance of repeating this scene in Nobody (2021)?
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What's the significance of camera going through glass in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)?
They are lot of scenes where a camera goes through glasses:
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How did Cobb come to the basement using the elevator?
In the movie Inception when Cobb is dreaming about his wife Ariadne enters his dream and lands up in an elevator with each floor containing Cobb's memory of Mal.
In this scene Ariadne enters the ...
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Is there a philosophical significance of "Three Horses" in Michael Clayton (2007)?
In this movie we find Michael stops his car when he sees three horses standing a bit far away from the road. That's precisely how he gets saved when the car bomb explodes. He got out of the car to ...
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Why was the episode "The Mountain of Youth" almost lost?
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The Mountain of Youth aired one month after the series finale and was billed as "the lost episode":
MacGyver joins Jack Dalton in Kabulstan on a search for a fountain of youth in ...
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Children of Men - title meaning?
What's the meaning of the title "Children of Men"? There are no men giving birth to babies, obviously.
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What was the significance of the subplot involving 1934 California gubernatorial election in Mank?
Mank (2020) film discuss about film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his
development of the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941).
I didn't understand the purpose of subplot "1934 ...
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Was Gunda planned as a Trash movie?
There is a lot to read and talk about the 1998 Bollywood movie Gunda.
General perception is that it's so bad it's good.
The movie holds a rating of 8.2 on IMDB and holds a cult status.
I want to ...
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Why was the ball singer obscured in ‘Borg McEnroe’?
Towards the end of Borg McEnroe, there is a clip from the Wimbledon Champions’ Ball.
The setting is quite a large room with a stage to one side, where a band with a female singer is playing jazz music....
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What's the meaning of the last scene when the girl has a dead lady in the bathroom?
In Doctor Sleep, a creepy ancient lady from overlook hotel is together with the black girl.
Why? What's the meaning of this? like she assumed the fears, and ghosts and is fine with them in her life?
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Is episode S09E03 a comment on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's success at the awards?
In the 3rd episode of the 9th season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia "The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award" for the best bar. While the show is not particularly famous for referencing ...
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