Spoiler alert!
Just watched this movie an hour back and I have to say that it is seriously underrated. It's not just a tragic love story; there's a lot more to it than meets the eye. The summary beside the trailer says : A depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed ten years ago in a train accident.
I figured out after watching it that the ghost of the man hangs in the fine line between life and death. In other words, he's in a coma. While in this comatose stage, he's visited by his best friend and highschool sweetheart, both of whom are also ghosts. His best friend encourages him to move on in life while his girlfriend pleads for him to join her in the afterlife. Not much happens throughout the film but things get pretty exciting towards the end.
We find out that that he's been lying in a hospital bed for a decade after surviving a car-train collision which killed both his friends. He never wakes up because he dies before he can. His late mother had plans for him but one major accident can not only destroy lives but can also wipe out all hopes for the future.
It makes you ponder over how futile life really is. Even the fact that Brendan Fehr's in it doesnt make the movie less depressing.
I get it now!! Missed the first 30 minutes.
ReplyDeleteIt seems I came to the same conclusion as you, but left me puzzled was the status of Chad Lindberg's character. You say (and I also believed) that both Chad and Tanya's characters are ghosts, so why does Chad's character drive off at the end" Where does he go? Is he off to a different realm where Fehr and Tanya's characters won't be? Also would you happen to know the significance of the close-up on the car's number plate and the last scene where the same car is shown all rusted-out? Like I said, I pretty much interpreted the whole film the same you did but the last scene really threw me off. Please let me know if you've come to a conclusion. Cheers and great review!
ReplyDeleteit appears that the friend Chad is staying between real life and the after live. His souls is just lingering out there because he doesnt want to die. Where the main character and Tanya are going into the "light"--up to heavan. The tag I assume is saying heaven, but Chad still wants to be alive and keep driving. So the scene at the end where the car is rusted is simply Reality. the car was destroyed in the accident and the house is abandoned. Showing you that 10 yrs has went by.
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