The movie opens and closes with a scene of a schoolyard, but something is supposed to be subtly different.  And I've missed it, twice.  On top of which, the movie makes no sense at all to me.  If somebody can unravel the mystery, and explain what the whole thing means, I'd appreciate it.  Merci beaucoup.
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The key twist in the schoolyard footage is that Georges (the son of Pierrot) and Majid's son are seen conversing for a long while on the left side of the frame. This despite the fact that they are never seen together in the movie itself.\n\nThere are several explanations for this. Firstly, that the two boys conspired to create the events of the film and that it is proof that Georges was the one who create the tapes (whether Majid's son was aware of it or not). Other interpretations was that Haneke meant to include a very subtle hopeful ending, with the two boys unknowingly meeting one another and is a metaphor for the whole notion of French-Algerian relations - that the key is moving one and not letting the sins of the fathers be divested on their sons.
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I'm not sure there is a message that can be summed up in a few words.  Donnie seems to be psychotic, but ends up saving the universe.  He is chosen by a higher power to save it and is given superhuman powers to be able to do so.  He is guided by someone whose death he causes in the tangent universe.\n\nMaybe the message is that we're all crazy, or maybe nobody is.\n\nI think it was just a really fantastic movie by really smart people who wanted to make us think.
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Are you refering to the first?  I personally thought it was a great movie.  Parts of it were kinda boring, but I loved the ending.  I think what I liked the most though was the moral message behind the movie.
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It was actually a lot cooler than I expected and I heard it was replaying on Sunday night. But if not basically, he wakes up in the woods, with no memory, as if this was his birth. He ends in in juvenile hall because they don't know where to put him. The shrink there takes him home with her to be with her family. He manages to get a playboy magazine back for the son of the shrink and protect the daughter from a cop at a party out of control and help the husband fix a computer. He connects with each member of the family. He has no belly button which is supposed to be some type of clue. Also, there is a suspicious guy who shows up in a truck in 2 or 3 scenes and it is supposed to be ominous. Well hope that helps and check your TV listing for your area for the encore presentation they announced for I believe Sunday.
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I haven't seen the movie. \n\n If you want to know if the word in the movie means bacteria, please tell us what the name is, so we can help you.  Even if you misspell it, it is better than nothing.
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That's  a funny question...and its not about being practical, but its about the beautiful picture of people becoming silhouettes against the sinking sun...It also symbolises the end of something (also the end of the movie).
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Whew-- Here's a question to all those who post about religious folks and non-religious folks... Are we ever going to settle this? Yeah didn't think so.\nStill I commend Wrathpuppet and the more thoughtful responders by espousing their beliefs in as clear a manner as possible, and Schneb- That's got to be one of your shorter replies, kudos on the mutual respect.\n\nI'm going to shy away from a grandiose analogy, for a simpler one that might still fit.\n\nEver went to see a movie the day it came out, was blown away by it, and when you told your friends they needed to see it, and right away, they blew you off? Ya know like they'd heard bad reviews, or just didn't think the material was something they were interested in. But it's killing you because you love and respect these people and you wish them to share in this wonderful cinematic experience... and you're sure if they would just take the time and go, they'd thank you for it later? ** to carry this theme out... it's not that you believe these folks (that you're trying to tell about this great movie) have never seen a good picture before or that they couldn't discover it on their own, it's just that it was SO good for you, SO moving, SO vital, that you really believed if they never saw it, their life would not be as rich as if they had.\n\nShortest answer possible, they think they're doing you a favor or a kindness, you may already have an interesting life that has happiness in it, but they fear for your eternal happiness. \n\nI for one will leave each to their own, and only try an help the ones who say they are unhappy or in some need, and the answer from me rarely will have religious overtones. \n\nMy God is just love. Wrath, judgement, the need to be worshipped and obeyed are the attributes of other's Gods. \n\nThe afterlife does not hold auditions.
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I'm not going to be able to answer this in fullness at all but I'll let you know what I think about certain things.\n\nThe baseball cards - Simon gives the cards to Joe because they were his(Simon's) Favorite thing in the world.  He was trying to apologize for taking Joe's favorite thing in the world in the world...his mother.\n\nThe armadillo - After Simon gives Joe the cards, Joe realizes how upset and how bad Simon feels so he gives the armadillo to Simon, as a sign of forgiveness.\n\nThe deer - The deer was the instrument in showing everyone that Simon was here for a reason.  That he had survived for a reason.  His small stature and shrill voice gave him authority when it came to the smaller children and the small stature also allowed him to escape the bus when it slipped under water.  I'm not sure what the deer represents when it shows up the other 2 times though.\n\nJoe and Grandma - Definatley the part where we actually see the comforting loving side of her.  When she tells Joe that she won't be there forever and that she didn't know who his father was.\n\nJoe and Dad - It's sad to see Joe's reaction to finding out who his father was and denying it.  Joe's realization that it was true was when Simon confirmed it by finding the baseball, while searching for his cards.  I love the fact that Ben Goodrich adopts Joe in the end though.   During the movie I was hoping Ben was Joe's father, but I think the way they did it was better.\n\nI hope this helped in some way...maybe gave you a start.
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I saw this movie tonight. I was pleasantly surprised because this movie was GREAT!!!! My favorite genre of movie is suspenseful/thrillers (psychological) movies, and this movie had the BEST ending, my jaw almost hit the floor!! LOL I would not classify this movie has a horror movie, it's more of a thriller. So for those of you who want to see a scary movie (it had a few scary moments...there were some jumps and screams in the theater) this may not be the movie for you.\n\nI RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE, IT WAS GREAT!!!!
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The movie is about a set of twins (both roles played by DeCaprio). When they were born, the King told the Queen that one died and he placed that child in a "protected place" with a caregiver. The King believed this was a way of protecting the throne. \nOnce the King died, his son took the throne and was not liked by the people. He was a bad king (to say the least). Eventually this new king discovered that his brother never died, so he had him imprisoned in an iron mask to conceal his face/identification from the public. He did not want to share the throne. \nDuring his father's reign, there were four main muskateers which protected the royal family.\nThree of these men quit because they no longer believed in the new King's ways of ruling. The only one that remained was Dartangon. He had now become the King's right hand man. The other Muskateers could not understand why he would not defect like them. \nWhat the King did not know was that one of the defective Muskateers knew of his brother's, the other twin's, placement into the mask. This Muskateer comes clean and tells the other two. They form a plan to "break" the young man out of prison and to educate him in the ways of royalty and switch him with his brother during a royal party. (You see, no one else knows there are two children.) All goes well, until Dartangon realizes there is a change in the personality of the King. He catches on and finds there are two children. \nThe catcher is that he, Dartangon, is actually the father of the twins. He was having an affair with the Queen, who is still alive and very much in love with him too. He had been hiding the secret for years. He comes clean to the other Muskateers and they finnaly realize why he would never defect, eventhough he agreed the King was an awful King. \nThe King tries to kill his brother and all four muskateers are trying to protect the good twin. There is a "showdown" and the King accidently stabs Dartangon, his father, and kills him. With his dying breath his tells the twins he is there father. ALL of the Muskateers here this and are sworn to secrecy by the creed and they decide to put the King into the mask and his brother on the throne. The good twin is now King and places the bad twin into a nice seclusion with a deaf, blind mute so the secret will not be out. France is happy again and Dartangon is a hero muskateer.
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Well, obviously you missed the Beast taking out his hairy blue shlong.  I went to see it twice just for that!!!\n\n\nWhat really happened is this.\n\nIf you recall earlier in the film a lesson that is stopped abruptly when Storm creates a cloud cover.  During that lesson the class was watching a video of a man in a hospital who had no cognitive functions, that is he couldn't think.  Xavier asked the class if it was right to transport the mind of a father of four with cancer into the body of that man.  At  the end of the film Xavier inhabits this man, and so, since the cure is only temporary, leaves the film open for another sequel.\n\nMy points are,\n\nYou never see Cyclops actually die.\nThe cure is temporary so...\n  Magneto comes back\n  Mystique comes back\n  Rogue comes back\nXavier moves into another body.\nIs there any reason Jean could not do this?\n\nThey'll cash in on another one in a few years time no doubt.
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I think that the whole thing was a dream the guy had while he was dying.  The movie you saw was what was goingon in his head, a dream world he had made up..  At the very end he realized it.  The dream had people in it that were surrounding him as the accident took place.  The poeple who were the most prominent in the movie were those who were around him the most after the accident.\n\nIt was a bit confusing though - I just watched it last night.
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I've seen it many times-its actually an issue that we discuss in school a lot. Many people I know are convinved that the entire thing was a gov. conspiracy. As believable as the movie is, I still can't imagine anyone would stoop so low. What a dilemma.
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I'm going to preface this by saying that if American Psycho (which came out in 2000) is old, then -I- am old (I'm 19). Anyhoo...\n\nThere are a couple of interpretations as to what's actually happening at the end. The first interpretation, as a few other users have already mentioned, is that it's all in his head. They're merely messed-up fantasies that he's mistaken for reality. There are several points of evidence for this: the ATM saying "feed me a stray cat" and the exploding cop cars, for instance.\n\nThe second interpretation is that he can get away with what he's doing because A) he's rich and has "friends" in high places (put in quotes because I happen to think he has no real friends) who can cover his ass and buy off the authorities, and B) mistaken identity. Throughout the entire movie, a lot of people call him by different names, so when his lawyer confronts him about the message he left on his machine, he thinks it's all one big joke, because he's always mistaking Bateman for someone else. If that made any sense at all.\n\nPersonally, I am of the camp that buys the first theory, because the end always seems too surreal to be, well, real.\n\nJust as an aside, I loved this movie and personally thought it was hilarious. The repeated line "I have to return some videotapes" just kills me every time. And no, I am not insane, at least, I wasn't the last time I checked.
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Dude that movie rocked hardcore.  Anyway I see a question mark in there somewhere but I cannot decypher any kind of question.  That button at the top says "ask.", not "state."  kthxbye.
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wow.  I thought I'd never have to hear of that movie/story again... i just had a test which had some questions on that in media analysis.  To bad I never read it... it prolly would have helped me on that test... but sorry, the movie didn't say, it was pretty much scilent... sorry i couldn't help you,  I just had to say something cause this is weird you brought it up.
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It starts with the focus on Claire who is suddenly picked by all the nerds of her school to be Homecoming Queen.\n\nMeanwhile Nathan destroys the painting he received from Linderman. It shows something he thinks will get Peter killed.\n\nOver in India Mohinder has begun looking for the boy he sees in his dreams. he is sure the boy can lead him to what it is that he must do.\n\nClaire gets smart mouthed by her fellow cheerleader who calls her friend gay and so she hits the other cheerleader in the eye. \n\nOver at nathan's Peter sees the painting which Nathan covered in paint. His girlfriend however has a copy of the painting on a photo and it shows Peter seemingly dead at 8:12PM aat th Homecoming. The inmportant thing to Peter is it tells him when and where he has to go.\n\nMohinder finds the boy in the streets and asks him what he is to do but the boy told him he already knows what he should do.  Mohinder has to choose which way he will go, to work or to New York.\n\nPeter calls Hiro only to get his friend who is waiting for him. He tells the they have to get to Odessa. The friend says he is in Texas outside of Odessa. Peter says he will fly out there to meet with the.\n\nClaire's father talks to Eden about getting Isaac to paint more paintings. His newest one only shows the top of a person's brain after the skull has been opened. He wants Eden to force Isaac to paint some more. He shows her what will happen to Claire if she doesn't.\n\nDL is having trouble keeping up with Micah who wants to go home to Nikki.\n\nJessica is buying a high powered rifle to kill DL. \n\nMohinder is dreaming again and it is telling him that his father wanted to find all these people and that he used the boy to find heroes. He also found out that his father did everything he could to keep the boy out of the search.\n\nClaire goes home and is grounded from the game for punching out the cheerleader.\n\nMohinder decides not to erase the file on the heroes and it asks him for a password. He tries a few names including Sylar, and then he tyoes in his sister's name Shari and the file opens up and lists all the heroes and where they live.\n\nChaire's friend helps her escape her grounding and take her to the game.\n\nPeter meets up with Hiro's friend but Hiro is not back so Peter must go to the game alone.  \n\nAt the game he bumps into Claire but he thinks the cheerleader she knocked out is the cheerleader he must save. She doesn't tell him otherwise.\n\nClaire's father finds out that she is gone and gets to the stadium. Eden and the Haitian haed there as well to find Sylar.\n\nSylar finds Claire's friend and with his finger lazers off her skull caps. He knocks Claire to the side busting her up pretty bad but she recovers and screams as her friend tells her to run. She runs and runs into Peter who tells her to run . He tries to hold off Sylar but is no match so he runs too. He tells her to go find a cop and people. He then locks up with Sylar and both fall off the roof. \n\nBack at the cafe Hiro's friend has realized that Hiro went back 6 months to Charlie's birthday. He finally sees that in a photo on the wall. He also learns Hiro has been missing for two weeks now.\n\nDL talks with Micah and learns that Jessica is definitely on her way and that she is not Nikki.\n\nPeter wakes up and starts healing himself as Claire finds him. She is impressed. He tells her she should find some police. Instead she finds her father. He tells her Peter will be fine.\n\nIn the woods, Sylar is trying to escape when he meets up with Eden and the Haitian. Claire controls his mind a little and the Haitian helps her control it all the way. Sylar passes out from their combined powers.\n\nPeter is arrested by the police being as he is covered in blood and has no reason to be there.\n\nMeanwhile Jessica has DL in her sights as she tries to kill him and get Micah back. \n\nSix months earlier, Hiro arrives at Charlie's birthday.\n