Ok i just asked a friend of mine. He says that what we see in "12 monkeys" (sorry ), just repeats over and over again and Bruce Willis cant do anything to change the cylcle, because he is the kid in the airport scene. so he keeps going back in time, and the kid keeps growing up to be him and going back in time. does that make any sense?
It makes sense, but in my own convoluted world I don't want to even think about the possibility of such a sick thing happening to a person(Bruce Willis). My opinion is that I have not seen this movie in three years so I do not know what the hell I am talking about anyway.
Which scene? I had a friend told me it's only on the DVD so watching the movie on TNT channel would be kind of useless.
Most likely based on the story. The red color representing a martyr in Catholicism is a coincidence. <A HREF="http://www.snopes2.com/movies/films/ozsuicid.htm">Oz suicide story debunked</A> Mango
All these films are child's play. If you want a real challenge, someone try to explain Jacob's Ladder.
well number 4 is false http://www.snopes2.com/movies/films/ozsuicid.htm i always thought that the box he never opened, represented a sense of hope. it represented the world that he lost. and it eventually got him through it all, knowing that there was still another world out there.
Is everyone clear on the final story in Momento??? Also what was the significance of the Midget riding on the toy horse in the dream sequences of Happy Gilmore???
mrpaige, yeah, the virus is definitely released in the airport. I guess I was allowing for the possibility that maybe it could have been contained if that was the only place it was released. so. . . do you think that the scientist in the plane was there to insure that the virus would be released in all the other places where it was "supposed" to be? or do you think she has some other purpose? just curious.
Memento.... The dude is on a never ending journey to find his wife's killer. He has already found him but he destroyed the evidence so that he could keep going. Also he destroys the evidence that Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) is his friend and turns him into an enemy to continue his journey. Kinda Crazy - good twist. Like Pulp Fiction and Fight Club mixed together. I gotta watch 12 monkeys again....
Schindler's List: I saw Spielberg on Inside the Actor's Studio, and he said that the significance of the red girl was that, since the movie was in the black and white of the past, that one bit of color was Spielberg's way of reminding us that is event actually happened. It was for us to relate in the present (in color) to the events of the past (black and white). (I think that's what he said) Memento: I understand most of the movie, except one thing. In that shot of him and his wife lying on the bed at the end of the movie, you can see a tatoo with the words "I did it" on his chest. My guess is that this means that he's killed his wife's "murderer". But he is lying next to his wife during the shot, so she's obviously not dead. Or has his mind just tricked him again? Does anyone else have another idea on that part of the movie?
12 monkeys: They needed the original unmutated form of the virus to make an effective cure. Apparently that virus mutated really fast.
Wink, but what about the scenes where the wife didn't really die (she survived) (there was a shot with him lying in bed with his wife and he already had the tattoos started) and he killed her with the insulin??? Smeg
Oh.... I do recall that. But wasn't that a story told by someone else and then he realizes it is him or something like that? Kinda weird/sad. Man you are making my brain melt trying to think so hard about a movie I only saw once.
From what I gathered: SPOILER that story was his. The 'Sammy' guy was him; the thing with the insulin happened to him after the rape incident. His wife survived the attack, as did he, but as a result of it was his 'condition'. Then the thing with the insulin happened. Teddy was a cop working the case at the time. He felt sorry for him and helped him find the real 'killer' - but, of course, he forgot he did find the killer and kept trying. Teddy realized this, and began to use him for his own purposes. (Like the drug dealer). Teddy was kind of a crooked cop, not really much of a friend at all. (Teddy used him the same way Natalie did when she realized his condition) So once he figured out he was being used, he decided to put a stop to it. Teddy had obviously made him kill numerous times. So he wrote 'Don't trust his lies' on the photo, knowing that eventually it would lead him to Teddy once his memories got wiped clean. In effect, he helped himself to kill Teddy - so that he wouldn't be used any more. I think.
Oh yeah why did they kill Joe Pesci in "Goodfellas"? I guess I never really paid attention to the movie so it's probably something simple.
I thought it was gold in the suitcase... Remeber it was reflecting gold light into Travolta's face...
The soul theory sounds correct to me if you think about it. When you picture the soul, spirit, angel, etc. of a person they usually have a bright light surrounding them hence the bright light coming from the briefcase. A site I found says the contents of the briefcase have never been told or discovered.The "Pulp Fiction" Briefcase
