ALL OF US STRANGERS Spoiler Talk! | Andrew Scott | Paul Mescal | Ending Explained

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***SPOILER ALERT!*** What's really happening in "All of Us Strangers"? We've wanted to have this spoiler chat for a while, but waited until after the holidays to give more folks a chance to watch Andrew Haigh's gorgeous, heartbreaking film. If you've seen it, we'd love to know your interpretation of the story. If not, be warned, spoilers abound! Starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell. In theaters now.
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@derwood206 8 месяцев назад

My thoughts on the film are that both "ghost" stories were being written by him the whole time and ended up being healing for him 1) the interaction with his parents was the place he got to resolve his feelings of grief and loss since the crash and where he could find a space to share who he'd become as a man and perhaps gain their acceptance and 2) as a gay man who lived through the AIDS pandemic, he was carrying other losses, the disconnect from sex due to fear and the actual losses of friends and lovers to the virus. Paul, a young man who hadn't experienced this trauma, was the carefree version of a queer man who could pull him from this past, help him heal and love again. Both stories move him forward to a sense of peace. I like the idea that he ends the story, embracing Harry, and as the camera pulls away, the script is done, the computer is turned off and the universe becomes a point of light, a pixel among other stories that he's written or are being written. I imagine him waking up with closure. The end ;). My thoughts on the mostly "empty building" at the beginning of the film represented the empty pages of his screeenplay, and perhaps he had a short outline of a hot character named Harry that he was trying to explore (and so he became the other "tenant). I think he was staring up a the "window" trying to figure out a storyline for him, tried a drunken scenario, but closed the door on that. He ended up going in a new direction, typed in the location of his family home and the resulting film is where he ended up. I wept the entire time! I have never experienced a film as a genx gay man that felt like it was telling my story and with a character in Adam with whom I deeply connected.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for your beautiful thoughts! These are all great theories.

@jja8750 8 месяцев назад

That's a fantastic theory. I wish it were the definitive one. But I imagine there are quite a few that 'make sense'. Thank you for offering this one up.

@bbcbbc1717 8 месяцев назад

Great interpretation mate.

@podoherty2 7 месяцев назад

I totally agree. I'd only add that I don't think the Paul Mescal character was gay in 'real' life. He may have been, but Andrew imagines it

@willynilly2545 7 месяцев назад

@@podoherty2what makes you say that?

@teddykgb9971 8 месяцев назад

I finally watched this tonight, and I went in completely cold: all I knew was that Hot Priest was in it and that it was good. I lost my mom about 9 months ago and my dad almost 5 years to that day, so I started tearing up once it became plain what was going on. I have to say, the emotions are so powerful here, I really don't care about trying to interpret the plot in some complicated way. It told a beautiful story with a lot for me to identify with - so for me, that was more than enough. This was a lot better than many of the Best Picture nominees for me.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

So sorry, Teddy. We both sympathize. Glad this spoke to you so powerfully.

@brianrector3169 8 месяцев назад

***SPOILER*** Another thought - a friend suggested that maybe even Andrew Scott's character was a ghost, and this was sort of a purgatory state where he could work out his issues in life. I liked that idea, and considering him and Mescal's character are the only two living in an abandoned building, it kind of makes sense that they would both be ghosts. "Is this building even real?" Maybe not. What do you think?

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Ooohhh ... that's good!

@DavidN369 8 месяцев назад

YES.

@jghartman4482 8 месяцев назад

Another interpretation I've read is that it didn't make a difference if the building was full or not, but that Adam's psychological state is such that, regardless, to him it was empty because he does not easily make human connections and has other psychological and personal issues. In other words, I suppose, the building may as well be empty, since he would not have interacted with any of the tenants, anyway.

@MattB0610 8 месяцев назад

This is a good read

@paulvargas2609 7 месяцев назад

I think the apartment building is empty because both Adam and Harry are ghosts and are in purgatory. No one else living in the building is weird.

@chrisstapleton7317 7 месяцев назад

My take is that Adam died in a fire and why everyone kept saying he felt hot and his skin was red. His spirit went downstairs and looked up, and saw Harry's spirit. Harry died a while ago. He even said, "Why didn't anyone find me?" He showed up with the same bottle at the end as in the elevator and with his body. Also, they kept talking about the smell, which would mean he didn't die after Adam's rejection.

@sinceslicedbread7422 Месяц назад

I'm in two minds regarding when Harry died. He either died right at the beginning, when ghost Adam looked up he saw ghost Harry at the window looking down on him. I think this is an option because the light behind him is flickering, ie the tv is flickering due to being left on too long. Then ghost Harry knocks on ghost Adam's door. He's desperately looking for company, even in death. Option 2 is the popular notion the Harry dies after being rejected by Adam on the first night. All theories are up for grabs.

@taniamorin4355 8 месяцев назад

My interpretation is a bit more straightforward, I think this is a ghost story. Adam's parents and Harry weren't figments of his imagination or creation, they were actually ghosts who went through their own journeys, had their own concerns, and had their own wrongs they wanted to right. As for the connective tissue between the parents and Harry, I thought they echoed each other quite well. The more Adam was known by his parents, the more comfortable and brave he was to let himself be known by Harry too. Being known seemed to be a great fear for Adam, I'm thinking in particular of when he was speaking to his mother and said that he hid himself so he wouldn't get bullied in Dublin. Adam says to Harry when he finds his body, "I was too scared to let you in that night." It was only after spending time with his parents that he wasn't scared to be known by Harry, but tragically too late.

@JoeRiordan 8 месяцев назад

I was wondering the entire time if he was also a ghost, but they didn't just show his sweatshirt, they showed his bloated rotted hand, and that is how they made it crystal clear they he had been dead for ages. And then it his ghost asks, "Why didn't anyone find me?" to really emphasize how alone he was in the world.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

So sad all over again.

@PhoenixTwilight 7 месяцев назад

The magic of movies - they allow us to live through „what ifs“… I love the ambiguity of the end. This isn’t a documentary where we can find out what is real or not - it’s art where you have to allow yourself to just fall in and experience all the emotions… and in that, it shows you reality much clearer than every Disney movie that tells you how to feel about something… and how something or someone „really“ is…. I‘m still so destroyed… and saved…

@godsowncountry3605 7 месяцев назад

thank you so much. I think this the way how one should approach to this terrific film. Art can do everything.

@Psbw 8 месяцев назад

My take on the film is that Adam passed away during the first scene in a fire ( hence the fire alarm going off) maybe he died of smoke inhalation and from then onwards, he meets Harry whom both are in that building of limbo- needing to overcome grief, loss and understand how much you can miss out on when you hold onto pain for too long.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Oh that is a really interesting observation!

@dbgreene9020 8 месяцев назад

Exactly. That's how I saw it too

@TheTurquoiseAlien 8 месяцев назад

That would explain why he's so hot the whole movie!

@ericamacs3875 8 месяцев назад

@@TheTurquoiseAlien OMG. It was the one detail that drove me crazy, I kept thinking, does he have a fever, is this a fever dream. But of course, this is a much better theory.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

@@TheTurquoiseAlien Ha! He is indeed.

@tkusterb 8 месяцев назад

The first thing I wanted to do at the end of the film was run home and watch this discussion about the ending. I was wondering throughout the movie if Harry was real for all the reasons you mention: they are only together onscreen without others around acknowledging Harry's existence. The kind of connections Adam wants are the ghosts he sees: the familial relationship with his parents which was never fulfilled with having them die when he was so young, and a romantic relationship which, to me, eludes Adam because of his need for solitude to write his screenplays. All the performances are terrific, especially Andrew Scott, who had me in tears numerous times with his evocation of grief. Thanks for validating my theory about the ending!

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for being here with us!

@politefan8141 8 месяцев назад

I did wonder if Harry was real, especially during the nightmare scenes where he's chasing him on the subway. I also wondered if Harry was Adam's first boyfriend who died years ago, and that's why they cast Paul Mescal who is much younger than Andrew Scott. I also thought the fact that no one else lived on that highrise was an indication that none of this was real. We do see Adam travel to the suburbs, but we also see what's going on in his head throughout the movie. What would be truly fascinating to me is if Harry dying and Adam unable to confront that reality was the real catalyst for this story. I seem to recall Harry wearing a wedding band at the very end.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

All very insightful interpretations.

@Kyle-mo7bd 8 месяцев назад

Watch the trailor again. Harry is wearing a wedding band when he caresses Adam's leg during their fist intimate encounter. I noticed it when I watched the film and thought it odd. Perhaps your speculation is accurate!

@sinceslicedbread7422 Месяц назад

@@Kyle-mo7bd Harry's ring was on the third finger of his right hand though.

@bev9708 7 месяцев назад

It FINALLY came out here , I’d been sooo looking forward to seeing it and I was not at ALL disappointed!! Fortunately I had carefully avoided all spoilers including the trailer, and that made the experience so very moving and yes indeed Christy, heartbreaking, I cried for sure!! As Adam was approaching Harry’s door, the music subtly changed and I blurted out loud “Oh No!” and I was afraid Harry too? I have imaginary conversations with people in my head all the time and I rather interpreted it that way more than them all being actual ghosts!! I’m now even more disappointed that Andrew Scott didn’t get a surprise Oscar nod, he AND Zac Efron too, though admittedly it’s very tough competition this year!!

@BreakfastAllDay 7 месяцев назад

So glad you caught up with it Bev. Yes, Andrew Scott was so deserving.

@jlee4039 8 месяцев назад

I started crying when he first sits down with his parents and didn’t stop until the ending. Ugly crying.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

We feel you! We've lost both of our parents, too.

@dylanroberts5092 8 месяцев назад

I think there are 3 ghost stories... Adam is also dead. All are ghosts. Including the ones on the train. That's why the apartment is empty & no one talks to them. Because all we see are ghosts. No real humans alive in it.

@titania642 8 месяцев назад

The scene where he finds Paul’s body, I picked up on Paul’s hand being bloated, as a body would be if it had been sitting for awhile. That plus Andrew’s reaction to the smell is what clued me into the fact that he was a ghost. For me, the ending felt emotionally crowded because we went from the heart wrenching goodbye with the parents to the realization Paul was dead the whole time. I barely had time to breathe. And I think that speaks to those story lines feeling a bit too separate or just a lot to explore in one movie. But overall, I really liked this movie! It made me feel all the feels, the actors' chemistry was incredible, and it was beautiful. I will definitely watch this again to pick up on more things. Great vid!

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

It is a lot emotionally. Thank you so much for watching and sharing your thoughts!

@christinescheepmans7693 7 месяцев назад

Thx for this long interview. It was very enriching! With all you we're both telling, me too i went deeper in the story in what all happened. It was such a tender film and you felt so hard the loneliness of Andrew and Paul surching for love. This film touched me deeply and stays in my head already for days after seen him. So i think the actors did there job very well as they want that the audience feel the emotions deep in their heart and head.

@krisjordan4331 8 месяцев назад

I just got back from my second viewing, and it broke me even more than the first viewing. The grief of his parents, and the potential lover plot got to me. The constant thought of “what am I going to do when my parents are gone” hit me so hard when Adam said his final goodbye at the dinner to his parents. I was able to connect to both Adam and Harry on both of their relationships with their parents. This movie is even better on the second watch. Thank you both for covering this movie!!

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

That dinner scene was so heartbreaking -- even though we know they're not real, the goodbye feels so real. Thank you for sharing your experience!

@dbgreene9020 8 месяцев назад

After losing both of my parents years ago, this film tapped into that grief and loneliness like none other has done before. Although difficult and uncomfortable emotions around death and grief....I was blown away by how they were able to capture that feeling I feel since losing both parents.

@majortom63 8 месяцев назад

I thought this was a ketamine induced hallucination and that they both overdosed. These were his final thoughts. Beautifully filmed and acted but very haunting and depressing too.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Ooohh interesting ... hadn't thought of that.

@Juliaelizabeth11 8 месяцев назад

This is how I interpreted it. And the little random clues that it was probably a fire. Speaking about Harry being hot a few times and the siren lights flashing. So beautifully done.

@kalebcollins5728 8 месяцев назад

I had a really hard time with this movie. I loved every second of it, but the ending really pushed me. I felt almost betrayed by it. I still love this movie and it’s certainly one of the best of the year but the ending has reallllyyyy haunted and bothered me.

@majortom63 8 месяцев назад

Completely agree with you.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Maybe it's good that it has haunted you like that -- maybe that was part of its intention.

@MattB0610 8 месяцев назад

I agree. Up until the last five minutes I think this is a perfect film. But by that point Adam has already been through enough emotionally and deserves a nice guy in his life. Even though the movie was kind of building up to his non-existence throughout. But the way it unfolded just felt mean.

@Ray03595 7 месяцев назад

Agree, didn’t need that ending. And I think it somewhat worked against the message it was trying to get across depending on how you interpreted the ending.

@jose9593 7 месяцев назад

I think the building had tenants. Adam was so sad, depressed and feeling so much loneliness to the point that he didn't connect with anyone, he didn't "see" them. Also, i think he is kind of an "unreliable narrator", so we can't fully believe his perspectives on things. I adored this movie, it is so complex yet so simple at the same time.

@TheNeededSpark 6 месяцев назад

YES! This is exactly my thought. This story is about feeling lonely and I feel like the "it's so silence..." is about how you are surrounded by people but still feel like you are alone. I think he is alone in the sense of feeling left out not in the literal sense of no one else is there.

@jose9593 6 месяцев назад

@@TheNeededSpark I completely agree with you.👍

@ramirezs316 8 месяцев назад

I think it’s easy to see the end as “all in his head” but you can also interpret it as him tangibly seeing ghosts…which is more comforting I guess.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Is it more comforting if they're ghosts?

@pandycious 7 месяцев назад

@@BreakfastAllDay for me yes. It would mean that he was able to interact with the actual spirits of his parents & his new boyfriend. That it wasn't all in his head. Their interactions were real. Personally, my theory is that Adam is alive (he interacts with people in the club & the waitress) and that he is able to see ghosts. He's a male Jennifer Love Hewitt if you will. 🤣

@godsowncountry3605 7 месяцев назад

@@BreakfastAllDay If it´s just "in his head" would mean that Adam might suffer from a severe mental illnes. I don´t think this banality was the author´s intention.

@edithmarroquin8807 7 месяцев назад

@@godsowncountry3605 Exactly!! I don't want that for him. I choose to believe he's able to interact with ghosts rather than the option of suffering from mental illness. My friend believed everything was in his head, and I reacted adversely to that theory.

@edithmarroquin8807 7 месяцев назад

@@pandycious 100% agree. It's more painful to think that he had delusions about his interactions, especially with Harry.

@alaninsoflo 8 месяцев назад

The realization that Harry has been dead for the entire movie was a real gut punch. I saw it from the whiskey bottle. Then you see just a little bit of mottled and bloated flesh and you go "Oh..."

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

So heartbreaking.

@KennethPalmer10 8 месяцев назад

Love your channel. I have to watch this movie again. But at the end I kind of had a feeling that maybe the main character himself was a ghost. And in some weird universe or even like a so called purgatory (the hotel) he was maybe given a second chance to connect with his parents and even a lover in his past. The end scene when they are in bed it seems like the bed is turned into a star and they are sent into the universe. Perhaps to another life. Or heaven. I don’t know. I saw this a few days ago and I can’t get it out of my head. Definitely one of the best films this year and it’s a shame it didn’t get any Oscar recognition ESPECIALLY for Andrew Scott. He was amazing. As a heterosexual male I can say this is the best love story I’ve seen this year. Period.

@pgbear 8 месяцев назад

I agree with you. The end scene where both my men seem to disappear into a star in the sky, implied to me that Andrew Scott's character was also dead. Something is said at the restaurant scene with the parents that seemed to imply they were all three were dead, parents and son. I'm not convinced though. What an amazing film.

@HurrahMurti 8 месяцев назад

Watch the video by Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power of Love - that Adam keeps playing.

@thisisevan1 8 месяцев назад

I'm still not entirely sure whether Adam was a ghost or not. And if he was, he didn't fully realize it until discovering "real Harry" in Harry's apartment. For no one else to live in the high-rise building, is very odd right off the bat. Plus, since there's never any real device that explains just how he can see and talk to his ghost parents, nor with ghost Harry, who may have been a ghost the entirety of the film, not just after the flirty meeting at Adam's apartment door, it sure seems to indicate that this entire construct is all a kind of afterlife / purgatory.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

That makes it all even sadder!

@brianng8350 8 месяцев назад

I would agree only if the director showed me Adam’s body as well. Else, why only show Harry’s body in the building? If they are all ghosts, why show any bodies? But I guess opened to interpretations…

@dbgreene9020 8 месяцев назад

They were both ghosts.

@AugustoLugo1983 6 месяцев назад

There is a clue when Adam takes Harry to his parents house, Harry sees the ghost of Adam's mom, he rans away, that makes Adam go to Harry's apartment and as soon as he opens the door, you can tell there is a stench inside, and that was my A HA moment. I knew Harry was death, same outfit and the same bottle of whisky.

@TheLondonvideopro 8 месяцев назад

I feel Adam is dead too. Maybe from the start of the film. Perhaps he committed suicide too and ended up in some sort of limbo - represented by the empty building- where he was able to heal the trauma of losing his parents. And inability to let Harry in on the first night. I think this because Adam and Harry stay together at the end and become stars. Rather than being pulled apart by Harry's death. Either way - gorgeous film!

@edithmarroquin8807 7 месяцев назад

I heard this theory, and it makes sense, especially when they become stars and the whole empty building.

@wayneraby9172 8 месяцев назад

What a wonderful, sad movie. I, too thought Harry was real, and after trying to show him his parents, and Harry left, time passed and he discovered him dead. Thank y'all for helping me process this excellent film. I could have used subtitles, I had a hard time understanding the conversations, sometimes. Loved it.

@GregDavis-z1u 8 месяцев назад

Everyone was dead, including Adam. The building was purgatory. That’s how I read it. The ending was a gut punch because it robbed Adam and us of a happy ending. It is a mythic tragedy and because it is a myth the characters are forever etched in the stars.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

That is a good theory, and maybe a less sad one.

@pgbear 8 месяцев назад

I agree with you, that the building represents purgatory. References to Catholicism appear in the film, so it makes sense. Both Adam and Harry are dead at the start of the film, but both need each other to help them work through their loneliness and deep sadness, before they can pass into heaven in peace. I'm not sure I like my theory, as it makes the film even sadder that it seemed. Either way, the film moved me deeply and I enjoyed every second of it.

@SamSung-nf6tr 8 месяцев назад

Only Catholics believe in purgatory.

@dbgreene9020 8 месяцев назад

Such an incredibly beautiful movie. Those who are complaining or upset by the ending are missing the beauty of the entire story. Healing from grief and loneliness happening after death is still incredibly beautiful. We have to stop being so afraid of death. It's inevitable

@angeninetytwo 7 месяцев назад

I think he was in purgatory and they were all dead all along. That’s why he isn’t taken aback by his parents reappearing, because on some level he knows he’s dead. Pretty much everyone got to resolve what they had left behind.. at least that’s my interpretation of it.

@emjayay 6 месяцев назад

The parent's house was the same one Andrew Haigh lived in when he was a kid with his parents!

@KEBSD 8 месяцев назад

Appreciated this analysis! I hadn’t caught some of the specifics you caught, such as the sweater Paul Mescal’s character was wearing when he’s found at the end of the movie. I agreed with your initial review assessment that the two parts of the story never quite tied together, but understanding that really all of the events of the film were potentially just part of his screenplay, or explorations he needed to play out in his mind to help him write his screenplay, does make it feel more cohesive in the end and makes me like it a little more overall. As far as the apartment building, I could be mistaken but I think there was a line early in the movie about how “they don’t even have security guards here yet”, indicating that it’s so empty because they are the first tenants to move in/it’s a brand new building. Not sure that changes much but wondering if anyone else caught that…

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

We just figured it's one of those buildings where they built it so fast that they hadn't sold/rented out all of the units, but it does give the place an eerie feeling of isolation.

@achillesmjb 8 месяцев назад

I thought all were ghosts.

@langleymneely 8 месяцев назад

I was so taken with the way you guys described this that I purposely spoiled the twist for myself. Makes me want to see it even more!! A number of folks have the theory that the main character, Andrew Scott, is also dead because he’s the only other resident of the giant building?

@brianng8350 8 месяцев назад

I hope not. The whole movie would remind me of Lost the TV series where everyone is supposed to be dead and the whole series meant nothing or imagination of the dead. I hated how that show ended.

@langleymneely 8 месяцев назад

@@brianng8350 Yeah I don’t agree with it either but I found it an interesting read of the ending.

@majortom63 8 месяцев назад

That’s what we thought.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Yes, please do see it!

@jja8750 8 месяцев назад

But do we think that Adam is dead at the end, as well? Either, in general. Or committed suicide after finding Harry (both of them becoming stars). Characters tell Adam during the film that he "feels hot". Does that allude to 'fever dreams', that he is sick? It is the biggest question I have for this entire film.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

That is a really good question.

@TheLondonvideopro 8 месяцев назад

Yeah I feel Adam is dead too. Maybe from the start of the film. Perhaps he committed suicide too and ended up in some sort of limbo - represented by the empty building- where he was able to heal the trauma of losing his parents. And inability to let Harry in on the first night. I think this because Adam and Harry stay together at the end and become stars. Rather than being pulled apart by Harry's death. Either way - gorgeous film!

@sinceslicedbread7422 Месяц назад

Yes, Adam is dead too. He died in the fire at the start of the film. That's why everyone comments on how hot and feverish he is, throughout the film.

@Alan.Endicott 7 месяцев назад

I've watched it once and was a bit confused by the ending. I had convinced myself that Adam had died to explain how he was able to visit with parents and a neighbor who were dead.

@SpikeSpiegel09 7 месяцев назад

I do think the whole “what’s actually happening” of it all is meant to be a bit more ambiguous than you let on. The way his parents and Harry (at the end) speak, it’s clear they’re aware they are not alive and are unsure of what is happening to them, but they know it’s temporary. It feels very much like spirits needing to complete something before they can officially crossover. And Adam helps his parents come to terms with their deaths and their roles in his life which allows them to crossover peacefully. In a way he does this for Harry as well. I guess my point is, I’m sure he is actually writing a screenplay but at the same time, this does feel like a real ghost story. Like these interactions are not completely in his head. Ghosts are real in this movie’s world and he is speaking to them.

@chrisstapleton7317 7 месяцев назад

I feel that the parents know they are there to help Adam crossover. In the end, when they told each other at the restaurant that they had their issues but they did love each other made me think they aren't together on the other side, but Adam and Harry are

@elizabrown3458 8 месяцев назад

Thank you both so much for this discussion. It is one I have been wanting to have with friends but can’t yet … not until they see the movie. This film has really lingered for me which is always a good sign of complex and rich story.

@elizabrown3458 8 месяцев назад

I had not picked up on the bar scene details.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

We are here for you!

@ivanescalante832 7 месяцев назад

The movie is well made and beautifully presented. 15 minutes in I said to myself something’s off. I cried the last half hour 😂 however watch the movie, you won’t regret it!

@Coastersandpop 6 месяцев назад

I did also wonder whether, due to them being the only people living in the building whether he was in some kind of limbo and was dead himself and dealing with what he needed to so he could also pass over at the end of the movie

@sinceslicedbread7422 Месяц назад

Yes, Adam is dead too. They're all ghosts.

@soilofk 7 месяцев назад

To me, I like two meanings: one, they were all dead and interacting with each other in spirit, and two, Adam sees them, just like people, and they can interact with them cause he is sensitive.

@cliffordsam8260 8 месяцев назад

A wonderful spoiler analysis after seeing the film for a second time. It hit me deeper rewatching it and experiencing all the subtle and rich performance and revealing nuanced dialogue again.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching!

@angelcena759 6 месяцев назад

It has taken me some time, but I've finally watched this one tonight. I loved it. Even though I had a strong suspicion that the character played by Paul Mescal was imaginary too (mostly because he's too perfect in caring for Adam the way he does) the big revelation at the end still got me by surprise: they did meet briefly, and that makes it even more heart-breaking. Andrew Haigh really likes lonely, interesting characters. I remember now I once recommended you 'The North Water' (his TV series) during a live-chat. Can't wait for whatever he's doing next!

@BreakfastAllDay 6 месяцев назад

So glad it moved you, too, Angel!

@ziffyziff3321 6 месяцев назад

Ok here is my take Adam is a ghost. You never see him really interact with any "real" people do you? eg you never see him going to the train, buying a ticket etc he always just wakes up in the train. So is Harry ( right from the start he is already dead in his flat when he goes to see Adam the first time) That building they are in is a sort of purgatory, a waiting space before crossing over. All the characters have issues to deal with eg Adam's Dad finally telling his son he loves him, his mother apologizing for not being the best Mum, the isolation and lack of love that both Adam and Harry suffer from. Once the issue is resolved they can pass over to heaven or whatever awaits. The final scene of Harry and Adam in bed showing they love each other,,hence the explosion of light as they pass over (like the other points of lights + other souls that have also passed over)

@Baslium 2 месяца назад

But Admin did interact with others. In the American restaurant. He did talk to the waitresses. They even ask him if it is too much for one person to order a family special.

@sinceslicedbread7422 Месяц назад

I agree with you.

@miocio315 8 месяцев назад

I loved this movie. I felt the ending was actually an uplifting one, where Andrew Scott got to reunite with his parents and a chance to resolve things with them. I would be willing to sacrifice many important things in my life to spend a day with my dad again

@DavidN369 8 месяцев назад

Word.

@alaninsoflo 8 месяцев назад

Not uplifting in the slightest. He loses everything.

@a.m.308 8 месяцев назад

I loved the movie but it wasn’t uplifting because I don’t really know if that was in fact a reunion with his ghost parents. I’m not even sure if the relationship with Adam was even real. Or maybe because of so much grief and longing for the idea of what could’ve been, Adam chose to relive the “ghosts” according to how he wish they were. I find that very tragic and heartbreaking.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

That's a very nice way to look at it.

@BobSullivanAKABuffy 8 месяцев назад

I live in a 12 unit bldg in SF and rarely see the other tenants. Maybe I'm really dead too.

@thisisevan1 8 месяцев назад

I've got some bad news for you Buffy.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Maybe there's an AMC theater in purgatory ...? :)

@garrytee6297 8 месяцев назад

They are all ghost !? Great work guys love this review 🙏🏼

@Janootz 8 месяцев назад

Me at the start of this: Eh, I don't know when I'll get to see this so I might as well watch the spoiler talk since I'm already ceding the right to watch this unspoiled by waiting so long. What could possibly go on in this that is all that shocking? 1 Minute Later: WHAT

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Ha, have we convinced you to see it?

@Janootz 8 месяцев назад

@@BreakfastAllDay I was already going go see it. I had no idea that's what this movie is about!

@DocHikes 7 месяцев назад

It feels like an EMDR session gone wild haha

@FritzTheCat_1030 8 месяцев назад

I thought the decision to have the setting of the mostly empty apartment building with just the 2 characters living there really gave away that something was awry very early on. Adam is talking to the ghosts of his parents and then there is this other storyline with Harry mostly isolated from anyone else, as well. I had guessed that it wasn't real very early...I actually thought for most of the film that it was Adam who was dead and this was him passing into the afterlife...but I was not surprised at all by the reveal at the end and I do think it lessened my opinion overall that I was on to the gimmick the entire time. But I did think it was really well acted and presented, so I'd still recommend it overall.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

So many ways to interpret it! Thanks for watching.

@davidgordon3394 8 месяцев назад

I have loved this movie beyond words to discuss it. I never saw the relationship or the empty building as realism. I just felt that I was inside Amdrew Scott's head or experiencing this from his point of view. Inrelated with Adam's sadness and longing amd, in fact his need for solitude. I always thought that Paul.Mescal's character, damaged tho he was, was too good to be true. Everything the two of you spoke of tonight (well that is whej I am watching this video), was spot on. When he visited his parents, I believed in it whether it was part of his screeenplay-writing process or just what he felt he needed from them. I figured that whatever the Mescal figure was to him was his real or imagined catalyst to the possibility for intimacy with another human being. I have recently lost both my beloved parents within the last two years. It matters not a whit whether I lost the tragically at 12 or 63, there is a ton of unfinished business in my case that has prevented me from fully opening up to another human being related to this loss. I know this may be just me and my circumstances or just my generation. Either way, everything you two said about this character's imagined relationships rang true. I don't find this traumatizing, I find it carlthartic. It is what great art does whejn it is executed with artistic skill amd sensitivity. Thanks for the insights. Pauline Kael worthy!

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for sharing your lovely thoughts, and we're so sorry for your loss. We've both lost both of our parents, as well, so we sympathize.

@patcurrie9888 7 месяцев назад

I knew something was up, two people in a giant building and both gay? Hmm. To me the best part was his longing to know his parents as an adult. And in a sense meeting them.

@DavidN369 8 месяцев назад

Poetry, pure poetry. Maybe Adam is also dead. Maybe Harry was always dead, even before the first meeting scene, per the final reveal. Maybe Mum and Dad were always in Adam's subconscious and have already been aching for him. And maybe, yes, this is all Adam's after-the-fact screenplay. It's all so subjective. This is not a film to be easily uncovered or dissected, and it seems to me that’s the point. Not since Buñuel. It remains tied with "Past Lives" as my #1 film of last year. Thanks as ever, Christy and Alonso.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

So many ways to look at it! Glad you loved it too.

@wdfmidevil 8 месяцев назад

I always saw Harry being dead coming, but I wondered near the end if they were going to make him the drunk driver who killed Adam’s parents

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Ohhh ... that is dark!

@wdfmidevil 8 месяцев назад

@@BreakfastAllDay The reaction Harry gives at the house when he sees them, drove this suspicion. It also could’ve led to his alcohol dependency to forget that night

@emilyjaneheath 7 месяцев назад

I wondered if the Harry character/ghost had somehow been responsible for the parents' death too, but then it was revealed that they skidded on black ice (and that they had both been drinking). It was a single car collision.

@Natsteph 8 месяцев назад

He could never wear a SWEATSHIRT twice...

@estebancomulet 8 месяцев назад

Such a stunning film. Was moved throughout. Found the last 10 mins slightly jarring, in its step into a different type of film, but will need to watch it again to see if it sits better (still a necessary part of the narrative for it to work, but wonder if its execution could've been done subtler)...BUT still thought it was a masterpiece. Boldly shot and acted. Just wonderful, definitely best film of the year so far...

@tximinoman 5 месяцев назад

I didn't think he was making this up, I thought the movie implied the conversation with his parents were actually happening (even if it were their ghosts) in a sort of "magical realism" (I don't know if that's how "realismo mágico" is called in english, maybe you use a different expression for it?). I think him making them up takes a lot from the conversation with his father about how he was bullied, or his conversation with his mom when he comes out. It makes the whole thing way sadder IMO. Same with the Paul Mescal relationship btw. I feel like if this was all in his head it takes a lot away from it. Like a ghost and a lonely dude falling for each other and having this very real although "magical" brief thing that help both out sits with me better than "this is just a dude who wrote this off and is still lonely as fuck in his apartment by the end of it".

@californiumblog 8 месяцев назад

I'm caught up thinking about the ending of Adam holding Harry in bed. There's a very tragic interpretation there. Did Adam work through these emotions with his parents just to fall back into himself and literally curl up into his fantasy? Especially with the final shot of them being reduced to just another point of light surrounded by the dark... All of them remaining strangers, as it were.

@GregDavis-z1u 8 месяцев назад

Yes or are they tragic mythic figures forever residing in the stars.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Very sad all around.

@langleymneely 8 месяцев назад

It’s an Alan Wake 2 adaptation!? Jk I would love to see you guys reckon with the masterpiece that is Alan Wake 2. It’s a twisty, horror story in the vein of Twin Peaks with a writer that is trapped inside another dark world where artists are fed on by a dark entity and the only way to get out is for the main character to write himself out. He actively uses a typewriter to rearrange scenes and levels of the entire game.

@You2be4life 8 месяцев назад

Omg, I saw this yesterday and cried so much.

@jamesmcabla1772 8 месяцев назад

The thing with the empty high rise. London a has really expensive housing market which has lead to these towers with one or two people and the rest owned as investments by Russian billionaires mostly. Though they imply they both relatively recently moved in. I get the impression the story wants you to be unsure if the weather it’s all made up or whatever. I think Henry says things that we can see in his flat that he couldn’t have known. Suicide is also heavily implied throughout the story Henry remaining in the flat when the fire alarm goes off. Then the line at the door then there second meeting in the flat there’s lots of hints.

@jamesmcabla1772 8 месяцев назад

There’s a lot of people saying they don’t get the end which I honestly don’t understand as it seems quite evident at least on a thematic level. He gos in and see Henry dead then see the ghost and goes back up stairs. He doesn’t call the police or anything like that from what we see. This is a bit of a thematic shadow is his parents death. He makes it clear he was meant to be with them when they died. He clearly feels guilt and can’t move on. That’s repeating again with Henry. Someone clearly in trouble that he dismisses because he was scared. Literally closing the door in his face. The end feels like him coming to terms with that guilt mostly as a result of writing about it as implied. The meatings with his parents and Henry are all that little to perfect with the exception of his mums one which might be his reason coming in. But those interactions all feel different from the norm they feel like that half dream state of creativity when you get into that flow state and suddenly what’s in your head feels more real than what is real. This is something that happens with loneliness and isolation as well we slowly lose our conception of what’s real and not and the protected world in our heads can feel or start feeling more real than the real. I loved it and the ending hurt it took the inevitable and someone obviously emotional catharsis kf the parents death and loss. It was clear immediately that they were not real. There too young, the cigarettes have there old 80s packaging, the car the house ext. Its also hinted in the dialogue. So you get that emotional catharsis of the inevitable and painful loss trapped within the bittersweet reconciliation. The ending takes that and all you’ve learned from it and hurts you with Henry’s death that was to some extent preventableif adan was less in his head. More kind. Less scared than it could have been different. When Adam closes the door I think he’s retreating into the little unreal worlds he’s made to start dealing with the pain of a loss he feels responsible for.

@godsowncountry3605 7 месяцев назад

probably it is best not to interpret this gem too much. I recommend a second viewing and to let the story just flow over yourself.

@jasoncarrick5461 8 месяцев назад

Sounds very Fight Club/Sixth Sense-ish

@brianng8350 8 месяцев назад

Definitely Sixth Sense at the end.

@SydneyTravellersGuide 8 месяцев назад

this opened here yesterday and I liked it well enough but is overt sentimentality and sadness which was constant and driven by that score just felt a bit strange? I'm not sure how much I liked the third act reveal of PM's death. It was at once telegraphed by almost everyone spoiling the ghost aspect to this movie and the ominous dark corridor and music. The creepy haunted edition of the club scene also didnt help. The fact the movie goes as far to show Mescal died on the day he knocked on the door. That third act... made the movie something much worse. Also felt like grief porn. I would have ended the movie with a shot of him pressing his floor. then pressing fl 6. Dont think it needed more. It also ruined PM's character into someone who's not loved, a drug addict and chronic alcoholic gay who somehow looked healthy when he showed up at the door. Does he not work, does he not have colleagues or friends, how does he afford the rent... etc el. The premise that its all a script (made up in his mind) is interesting but it was a very quick setup early movie. Claire Foy was amazing though and nothing quite like English mums. One i'll rewatch on streaming and love it more. I just had such high hopes for this.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for sharing all of your thoughts!

@abhiezibran9654 8 месяцев назад

Watch Haigh's the North water miniseries. Very overlooked despite the cast n the survival genre

@alexsushil 8 месяцев назад

I found this movie to be a letdown. It might be that my expectations going in were affected as I recently lost my mother and went in yearning to lean in to the catharsis of the subject matter, but setting that aside I still found it clumsy and the plot twist didn't add anything - rather, I found that it needlessly complicated an otherwise beautifully simple idea. I agree with Alonso that the boyfriend plot and the parents plot don't mix gracefully. I was moved by the scenes of missed conversations with lost loved ones, but then the movie would aggressively veer into Jacob's Ladder vibes where the ghost boyfriend's giving Adam ketamine in a nightclub and it just didn't balance out at all for me. I think both plots work on their own, but mashing them together tangled things up and lessened the emotional impact. Instead of the catharsis I had hoped for, I found myself (and I am seeing this happen online quite a bit with this movie) getting lost in the details of "wait so then how" "but then who" "but if he" "hey, who was serving the food in the diner toward the end? Was that just a ghost diner? I guess Adam was stuck with the bill" etc. I found that the recent "The Eternal Daughter" starring Tilda Swinton tackles similar themes with a much leaner screenplay and better atmosphere. Plus, Tilda played multiple characters thus continuing her prestige horror Nutty Professor era along with Suspiria

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

So sorry for your loss, Alex.

@davidaboyoun8681 8 месяцев назад

I just loved this movie and had to see it twice! But I did not pick up that Harry was also imaginary! Wow, that makes sense now. Great movie review!

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching! So much to ponder here.

@patcurrie7808 7 месяцев назад

I knew something was up when 2 people were in a giant hi rise and both gay? Was he real from the beginning?

@PNEfc001 8 месяцев назад

I'm assuming that when both characters, Harry and Adam met at the flat door in the beginning, they were both alive because Harry says to Adam at the end when his body is discovered 'I was so scared that night, I didn't want to be alone'. Adam replies by saying 'I know, but I was too scared to let you in'. Harry then dies wearing the same pink sweatshirt after drinking the bottle and taking drugs. My problem is, so when did Adam die?? Because the next scene after Harry goes back upstairs in the lift (to kill himself) is in the morning Adam looks through an old memory box at his dad's lighter and the Christmas fairy, and some photographs and then he visits his old home, sees a boy in the window and then the ghost of his dad follows him and takes him home. Surely Adam must also be dead when this happens? Head scratcher...

@treesny 8 месяцев назад

Agree completely with your first paragraph. Whether or not Adam is dead or alive, he undergoes an evolution as the story progresses, a process of opening himself up and healing. Having to relive -- whether in "reality" or "imagination" -- the death of his parents, and finally to accept it (that heartbreaking scene in the diner) opens his heart so that he is able to give Harry's ghost the unwavering love and emotional protection Harry needs, and do so without ambivalence or hesitation. There's a tiny but telling detail when the two men are in bed together at the end: they are lit quite differently, despite their physical intimacy, and Harry is initially drenched in a reddish light. Then this changes to white as he accepts Adam's love completely. Maybe it's a stretch to say that Harry is "bound upon a wheel of fire" after his (deliberate? accidental?) death, and that Adam (like Cordelia with her father King Lear) pulls him up out of his purgatorial torment. But that is what the Power of Love can do, isn't it?

@TomCarp8 8 месяцев назад

Love your impressions of the movie. I was thinking tho... Maybe Adam was dead too. lol It might explain why he is living in this(almost) empty building and seeing ghost like his neighbor and his parents.

@brianng8350 8 месяцев назад

I was so confused by the movie. When we first see his dad, are we supposed to know? I thought he was just a friend. When Jamie Bell /dad said “son”, was that figurative or literal? Then I finally caught on they are his parents. But they died, but he is speaking to them now? But at the ending twist…”I see dead people”. I did not think about this… Harry got spooked not because he can see his parents, but that he figured out he was also a ghost? But is that the logical conclusion? Adam is not dead, but he can see ghosts? Granted, he has emotional attachment to them unlike Harry. Regardless, good acting from Andrew Scott. Is this like Past Lives? Alternative stories about love and closure?

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Lots of good questions. And yes, a similar sense of longing for what could have been like in Past Lives.

@Cubanlinx63 8 месяцев назад

I admit that I originally thought his "parents" were the people who bought him in when his parents died.

@brianng8350 8 месяцев назад

@Cubanlinx63 Okay. I thought I might have missed something. Really thought he was a college friend or ex. Definitely hope to watch this again to see stuff I might have missed.

@Baslium 2 месяца назад

The most obvious answer is the correct the answer. Admin can see death people.

@MajorAlenko 7 месяцев назад

I didn’t find it all that emotional because I was just thinking like what the fuck is going on lol Think it deserves a rewatch

@chrisstapleton7317 7 месяцев назад

It was the same for my bf, too much going on to decide what's real what's not, to get the feels

@jja8750 8 месяцев назад

So many great theories, here. The 'Adam is alive and writing these ghost scripts' theory. The 'Adams is dying/dead and this is his transition'. The more on-the-nose 'Harry died after they met that first night and Adam finds him and comforts him and can now move on in REAL life' OR 'Adam, perhaps, commits suicide after finding dead Harry so he can be with him and his parents (hence them becoming stars)' theory. There are at least 2-3 others that I've read that make sense and are fascinating. And yet, the vagueness of it - which I typically like - is like a piece of popcorn stuck in my tooth that I can't get out. I feel like I need to definitively know, this time, this movie, how it ends exactly for me to have FULL emotional release and closure.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Andrew Haigh was at our awards dinner on Saturday night and we were tempted to ask him what's really going on here, but ultimately didn't want to know.

@jja8750 8 месяцев назад

@@BreakfastAllDay I respect that greatly. And also .. we could have known!! Lol :)

@vladsarkisov1231 8 месяцев назад

I figured out that Harry was a ghost 20 minutes into the movie. But was Adam a ghost as well?

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

That's a good question! We don't know either.

@sinceslicedbread7422 Месяц назад

Yes.

@DailyArchetype 8 месяцев назад

I was left confused. They could have made the fantasy stuff just a little more clear… it’s NEVER good when a movie starts with a screen writer with writers block 😂

@SolidgoldKelly 8 месяцев назад

They are all dead, even Adam. Does anyone remember the movie The Sixth Sense?

@patrarus6097 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for this spoiler review. I saw the movie this afternoon and, frankly, was puzzled by the plot. Your explanation helped immensely, however, "after the fact.". I really liked the acting and directing, but in general, I would not recommend the movie to my mainstream friends. It is just a little too weird for most people's taste.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Glad we could help!

@SamSung-nf6tr 8 месяцев назад

He's dead. Right?

@wildonionchase3934 8 месяцев назад

I was loving the movie until the ending made me think “Damn, they took the joke in Ghostbusters about Dan Aykroyd getting oral from a ghost and took it seriously” lmao, I couldn’t take the film seriously after that. Theories like “Adam died in an apartment fire so that’s why he always seems like he’s running a fever” or “he’s writing all this to deal with his personal demons” are preferable to me over the twist ending’s straightforward reading because of it.

@Demetri450 8 месяцев назад

Interpretations are opinions!

@Julija-by5ie 6 месяцев назад

I think tue ither guy is a gost of a past liver that the screenwriter has not allowed on his life out of fear or intimacy or something like that..the empty building with closed windows is his empty and closed soul. He basically dealt with it with his past end I think he accepted his mistake with his past lover and can move on.

@RB-.- 8 месяцев назад

This movie made me hate myself even more.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Oh no, that's sad!

@SamSung-nf6tr 8 месяцев назад

R U sure?

@cheekylix 8 месяцев назад

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@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

If only!

@NicHorsey 8 месяцев назад

Deeply offensive film. I thought that we weren’t doing the “dead gay at the end of the film” trope anymore?

@RichardHannay 8 месяцев назад

So you guys believe that the ghosts are all just in his imagination eh? Interesting.

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Maybe! Or maybe he really is seeing them. Or maybe he's a ghost too as several folks here have suggested. What do you think?

@RichardHannay 8 месяцев назад

I thought everyone would take the film literally that he’s seeing ghosts. But now I can see that it’s also possible he’s imagined the whole thing.

@SamSung-nf6tr 8 месяцев назад

Or he can see the dead.

@musicmann1967 8 месяцев назад

I shouldn't have watched this!! haha! 😆

@BreakfastAllDay 8 месяцев назад

Larry we warned you! :)

@musicmann1967 8 месяцев назад

@@BreakfastAllDay Totally! lol

@musicmann1967 8 месяцев назад

@@BreakfastAllDay Ironically, I watched this because I didn't think I was going to see it. But when you gave the twist, I suddenly wanted to see it! Dohhh!

@brianng8350 8 месяцев назад

@@musicmann1967Go see it. Maybe you will see something we haven’t since you know the twist.