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Do YOU think Fats is alive?

posted 13 years ago by surfercharlie25
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I love movies that make you wonder at the end; movies that don't necessarily leave everything wrapped up in a pretty little package at the end but leave some things for you to wonder about. MAGIC is easily one of those.

Do YOU think Fats is alive? Obviously, Corky does a lot of things in the movie on his own, but there is that moment when Fats seems to blink, without any assistance from anybody...

"We will prevail... through the purity and essence of our natural fluids."

[–] Tabbycat (878) 7 months ago

No.

Fats even says so near the end: “It was you all along!”

The scene where Fats blinks and turns his eyes, apparently unaided by Corky, is simply a reflection of Corky’s twisted imagination. It happens near the ending when Corky stabs himself, an indication of his realization that Fats was always him.