Reading the topics in the forum seems to me that everyone believes that the film is close to perfect and that there is someway to figure it all out. I enjoyed the film and thought it was as mindblowing and original as Inland Empire. All the credit is due to John August. I just want to know things that people didn't like about the film not what they didn't understand.
Seeing the movie come together at the end seemed perfect in the theater but the more I think about it the more i believe the last five minutes are needless. It seems like an extended ending with a CGI sequence and a happy resolution that would have a better home on the dvd. Ryan reynolds character has just been told he has the power to wipe out an entire alternate earth. We are given a very well directed and performed exchange between melissa and ryans character about what it would mean to do this. I'm not sure if the CGI sequence came before or after this exchange but that has to be the most expensive shot in the entire film and doesn't belong in one with this much independent spirit. We are given the outcome of his choice and left with a resolution where one is not necessary. Would anyone else have liked to leave the theater not knowing his choice? I know that this is august's final vision but it seems the movie would have been much more personal and memorable had it been left open ended. John August handles those last five minutes beautifully and does get his message across but seems to contradict everything we have seen before. In a film based off of uncertainty, and suspense filled with numerous ideas throughout we are given an ending in a nice neatly wrapped package and no room for interpretation.
please just tell me im wrong give me some reason for the uplifting ending so when i do watch this movie i dont keep seeing that needless epilogue. I thinks its one of the best films of the year just dont know why he would end it like this.