Just watched it. Thoughts:

I'm not the biggest fan of Sam Esmail's directorial style in Mr. Robot but for some reason I felt as though it really worked here. I liked how colorful this film was at times, kinda surreal and trippy colors. That was cool.

I'm not sure how I feel about the ending.....

I feel as though Esmail set up a bunch of different explanations throughout the film and you can kinda pick and choose what you want, as if there's not one clear cut path or explanation.

For instance, he set up the lie at the beginning of a relationship. Maybe Kimberly was lying about the baby, and that was her lie at the end of the film. She goes to tell Dell something but he interrupts he before she can. He is also the most vulnerable right then and there and wouldn't expect the lie, which is exactly what he said about lying in a relationship at the beginning of the film. So Esmail set that up and you can take it that way and assume the couple ended up together.

Or

The fact that this film takes place in an alternate reality. What was the purpose of this? It didn't seem to effect the plot all that much. Nothing was really that different from our own reality aside from the two suns. Perhaps this exists to treat the film like a negative, almost. Like a film negative of our reality. So in the films reality the couple doesn't stay together, but this implies that in our reality they do stay together. That's a cool way of looking at it, and realistically the only way the "alternate reality" plot line of the story makes any sense.

or

Dell is dead and the whole thing is a dream of the last girl he saw before he died. They talk about this possibility over and over again throughout the film, and even reference The Sixth Sense again and again, which is a film famous for it's twist ending where it is revealed that the protagonist has been dead throughout the entire film. Maybe this is the case and it's all an afterlife dream projected from Dell's mind.

or

Maybe it's just a dream, and Dell's not dead. Dell mentions he dreamed all of those situations, even the ones he didn't experience yet. Maybe that is the answer.

I feel like all of these different roads were set up on purpose. The audience is able to pick whatever ending they like the best and kinda roll with it. Each ending has enough evidence to back it up. There isn't one ending that seems to stick out more clearly as being the RIGHT one, at least not on my first viewing of the film.

Personally, I want to believe that Kimberly was lying about being pregnant and wanting to marry Jack. Even though I really dig the alternate reality explanation where they don't get together in that reality but they do in ours, Kimberly lying was the very first thing that popped into my head when watching the film, and it was what I was truly hoping would happen before the film ended.

I didn't expect to like this film, but I actually did a lot, though I doubt I'll really ever go out of my way to view it again, unless I want to show it to someone or if I feel the need to analyze it again, which I really don't. It was fun, interesting little film and I'm happy I watched it. Made me appreciate Sam Esmail a little bit more, and especially his work as a director.



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