[ SECRET POST #3732 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3732 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/Kr5w0Pe.png

[sarillia]

In my long appreciation of weird stuff, I've learned that sometimes it's best to just take whatever you get out of a story and not worry about anything you think you're supposed to have gotten but didn't. Come to think of it, I think that's true for everything.

[(Anonymous)]

+1000

I think this is the best approach to take to everything in human existence, yeah.

I tend to think of it as a virtuous circle, right? So each time you go through the movie - or whatever - you pick up more and more about it, which allows you to understand more and more about it the next time you watch it, and so on. You keep understanding it more and more deeply.

But the corollary of that idea is that there's no reason to expect the virtuous circle to ever end. There's no particular reason to suppose that there is some kind of final and complete truth or understanding hidden at the center of the spiral. It's just as likely that the circle goes on forever, or that each level of interpretation is equally valid as the one below it.

[(Anonymous)]

I watched the English Patient drunk AND sober and I still have no idea what the shit happened in it.

[kaijinscendre]

That is because NOTHING HAPPENED. What a boring as fuck movie.

Seriously: Old, scarred fuck tells a long story about the woman he was sleeping with and left in a cave to try and go get help. No one is likable and we are all happy when the story ends.

[(Anonymous)]

Good, now give me the low-down on Reservoir Dogs. There was a lot of tequila drinking with my brother's at-the-time girlfriend and all I remember is everyone dies.

[kaijinscendre]

As someone who has never seen it, let me try.

A group of bad guys are doing bad things. One of them is an undercover cop so they have to figure out who. That one guy who has only been good in Reservoir Dogs cuts off someone's ear to a totally ironically happy song. There is a shoot out and everyone dies. The end.

[(Anonymous)]

*applauds* You're good at this! :D

[kaijinscendre]

Now I will have to watch the movie to see if that is anywhere close to right.

[(Anonymous)]

Excuse you, Michael Madsen's performance in Free Willy was deeply moving.

[arcadiaego]

Lol my mum had to explain that to me after I first watched it. My brain just switched off, I think. I did see it again and enjoyed it.

[(Anonymous)]

Try the original: Open Your Eyes (1997) instead. It's still a bit convoluted, but much better and with a fresher feeling than Vanilla Sky.

[sarillia]

Ooh I hadn't heard of that. Thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

It's what Vanilla Sky is based on.

[dahli]

From what I understood, Tom Cruise was in an accident or something, got put on a coma and he's dreaming the entire movie. At the end he is given the choice of staying in the dream or getting out of the coma and facing what happened.

It's been years since I've seen it though, so take it my understanding with a grain of salt.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't see this, but I saw the film it's a remake of. I kind of thought the whole point was that the viewer didn't know what was happening. So, congrats, OP! You watched it right!

[(Anonymous)]

Good soundtrack though :)

[arcadiaego]

After the night David went to the bar and was really weird with everyone and made them mad at him (which tbh was pretty unfair of them), he signs up for a service that freezes you cryogenically while your mind enjoys a fantasy of your perfect life, based on your past and interests. After he signs up, he kills himself with a drug overdose. Everything we see after the night at the bar (as well as the lawyer scene at the start) only happens in his head while frozen.

The weird shit happens because there's a problem with the software, hence the guy who calls himself Tech Support. Tech Support shows him the memory of meeting Tilda Swinton, a representative from the cryogenics company. He also tells David that medicine has now advanced in the real world to the point where they can save him, so by 'killing himself' at the end by jumping off the building David ends the programme and wakes up in the real world. He makes the choice to live in reality even though he doesn't know what's going to happen to him because he's learned from what happened in the fantasy world.

[thistlechaser]

Huh, that sounds like a great story... I've never seen the movie, I should check it out.