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Anyone feel like crying at the end?


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Although we don't quite understand why he came close to dying or how the scientist was able to save him, that moment at the end when Turtle sees Daryl and the family comes out and they all group hug, and the music rises and rises... then doesn't properly end... instead it blends into a feel-good kind of love song.

And the camera rotates around them in circles, but we don't hear what's being said.

For me, after seeing Turtle and Daryl become buddies and all Daryl (and us) went through, it always gives me that sad but happy feeling at the end.

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I cried!!!!

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Daryl would have simply shut down to avoid taking water in. But he wouldn't die because he has a computer instead of a brain.
The scientist just restarted him. He can't restart himself, because he's turned off--sort of a catch 22 situation.

I may be unclear on the exact meaning of "group hug". They all pass Daryl around, and each one hugs him individually. Is that a group hug?
Also, I noticed that Daryl and Turtle give each other the quickest little half hug in history, just before that "group hug"--can't have boys really hugging each other in an American movie, I Guess.

I didn't cry because I didn't think he would really stay dead.

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