Bob was HIM

how bout, no?

It seems like a good theory but I can't say that I believe that. That would mean waltz knew everything but forgot it. How could a genius remember all those equations and formulas but never his own past.

I think qohen loved once which is stated but got hurt so bad that he decided to have no feelings or emotions. That's why he is so scared of the girl until she forces her presence on him.

#1/#2: Qohen got married then divorced, he was definitely not "lost" at the age of 15. #3 Bob was sniffing chalk which he wiped up with the handkerchief and led to him getting sick.

Contrary to the other posters, I think this is an interesting and viable inference. It's well worth pondering. The surrealism of the film makes it hard to come to any allegorical conclusion in a single viewing. One thought though; if Bob did represent Qohen, who was Management?


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I think you missed the point of Bob being today's youth. He's young and promising and can solve anything thrown at him...except how to live. He has no clue about the outside world. He sees two girls playing with a kite and could easily tell them how to fix it, but then complains he has never had a girlfriend. Don't you see the irony?

I think with movies like this (I just finished it eight hours ago), is that we are made to think so much, we start to overthink it. I know I do this all the time. Hell, I think the movie Frank is completely about Twitter, seen as a form of mental illness. So there's my crazy theory for you.

Not bashing or trolling you. I assure you, I could be wrong too, but Gilliam, for all his fancy sets and direction is actually pretty straightforward in his storytelling

If this theory was true then the girl Would be a figure of his imagination too Because he introduced them in his home. I say nay