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The ending wasn't satisfying at all, but all in all a good film


I enjoyed the world we got to explore and enjoyed the central theme of nihilism.

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Yeah I agree. I was really getting into the story there and then it just ended. Left me wanting more. Still a good movie though.

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Being left wanting more isn't such a bad thing. Seems like most movies I see I've forgotten before I'm fully out the door. Rare is the film that lingers for a time.

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- I'm not sure if I should.
- Then you're not sure if you shouldn't.

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True. Wanting more can be a good thing. But another (and perhaps more accurate) way of putting it, would be that the ending left me unfulfilled. Not quite so good when you look at it in that light.

You're right, the film will likely haunt my mind for quite some time. But that doesn't change the fact that, as the OP said, the ending just wasn't very satisfying.

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ending left me unfulfilled.
It certainly felt abrupt. And the last few minutes escape me. Did Bobs modified suit malfunction fry his brain and what we saw was in his cooked mind? Did the malfunction transfer his Conciousness into the mainframe? It did end a bit puzzling I found.

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That's how I interpreted it: he knew what would happen and thus he killed himself. The final minutes are his final thoughts: he realizes (through the voice of Management) that he wasted his life doing nothing, but he comes to accept it, finally lets go and enters the void.

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I think it's far too long to be the last seconds of a dying brain. So IMHO he didn't die. What is interesting is that after he accepts and falls into the void, he accept that he can create anything and everything he wants to.

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