Kevin's Watch

Did you like it? I loved this film. I thought it was amazing. Did you guess the ending?

Best suprise ending ever. IMHO

I actually thought it was obvious that he was dead myself.

Darth Revan wrote:I actually thought it was obvious that he was dead myself.

Congradulations. You are the only person I've ever known that did.

My dad did as well. And a friend did.

Well, that just makes you a little clique, doesn't it It was the best surprise ending I've seen, certainly. Fight Club was pretty cool too, though my friend was sitting there going "CLUE!" every time there was a clue to the ending

Love the movie. Yup, I was very surprised. But, as I recently posted somewhere or other, the thought of this kid's life, what he'd been throught up until he met Bruce, nobody to help him understand, going crazy. And Bruce's previous patient who killed himself. Pretty terrifying concept, all in all.

And his poor mother!! Maybe she wasn't going through as much as he was, but for a parent to know that something is very wrong, but have no way of knowing what, or how to stop it... Well, it's certainly my nightmare.

At the end of the movie it says that everything red in the movie is a clue... I forget to what though. Maybe when there were ghosties about or to the ending... hmmm.

I never would've guessed the ending! I was so shocked.

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Matrixman wrote:When I watched it the second time, I could appreciate how ingeniously laid out the movie was.

Yup! We never saw his wife respond to him, we just assumed she was talking to him in anger at the restaurant. And he and the kid's mother were just sitting together in the room when the kid came in, they weren't interacting. It's amazing how much we fill in without realizing it!

It was really done very well. The clues were up front and not hidden. Not opening the door, the restaurant, etc. But it carried me on enough where it was a suprise.

In the school... where those people were hung... Blech!

I think I figured out (or at least had the idea about) the ending maybe a little after half way through.

The Leper Fairy wrote:In the school... where those people were hung... Blech!

And can you imagine this being an everyday occurrence for you from the moment you're born? And not just seeing that stuff, but they try to interact with you?? So many of those ghosts were angry, and seemed to be attacking him, or thinking he was the one they were attacking. The lady at the end, who had died in the fire, and the girl who was poisoned by her mother, were fine, but the woman who killed herself because of her abusive husband!!! And who knows about the guy that he was locked in the closet with. It's a wonder this kid wasn't catatonic his entire life!

There no way I could ever have handled what that little boy had too. I wouldn't even last a day.

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Could be all of those things. And maybe his unique Self survived it, while others might not have. Maybe this happenes to many in each generation, but not all survive.

At least not without a teacher. It seems likely that he will search out others with his same ability, and help them understand what is happening, as Bruce helped him understand. But it probably should have been that guy who killed Bruce and himself that taught him. But that guy didn't have a teacher either, not even a dead one, so he never had a chance. If it went on as long for the kid without help, he may have cracked too.

I always wondered... did his mother believe him?

I doubt she did... When that dead biker was outside his car window she didn't seem too understanding.

But he told her things that he couldn't have possibly know about... I think she might have learnt to believe him... IMO that was the best scene in the film.