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Absolute spoilers for the ending of the film and what I think it might mean.
So, at the end after everyone thinks they have won, the main character goes "This isn't right, somethings wrong!" and time travels away to try again. At this point it shows unbelievable things happening revealing they are in VR (Although we already got some of that with the giant dick cat earlier). It then basically starts the movie over, but with him having a whole new plan to try and save the world. Everyone I was with was either confused, or thought what had happened was that the AI won and somehow converted the world to VR or something. I looked at this ending entirely differently.
At no point in the movie are any of the characters (outside the main guy) real. The whole movie is set in his looping VR. As a kid he left his mom and found a headset and - instead of a drone showing up and changing his life - what actually happened was that he put it on. From that moment forward, its all been VR. His mom died in VR, he met other survivors in VR, build a time machine in VR, and the system is just doing what it was designed to do - show him everything he wants. What he wants is to the be the hero who saves the world from the evil AI his mom warned him about. The camera never shows us his moms face so that it can be a big reveal.. but I think he just doesn't remember her face because he was a kid. All of this is a play put on for him.
The only thing that would make me think that wasn't the case was that it showed flashbacks to the other characters, and showed the wacky VR world after he time traveled. Why would it bother generating things he would never experience or interact with. Why not just generate NPC's with build in backstories? I THINK the answer mightbe that it was done for us, the audience. At the very end the AI boy turns to face the camera, sticks out his tongue, and plays air guitar. He's not doing that for any of the characters, he's aware we are there watching, and he's breaking the forth wall to let us know.
I guess what I'm saying is that I think the system is aware that its showing an audience one loop of one guys life as he lives it in VR. That's the explained ending of movie..... Assuming I'm right
At no point in the movie are any of the characters (outside the main guy) real. The whole movie is set in his looping VR. As a kid he left his mom and found a headset and - instead of a drone showing up and changing his life - what actually happened was that he put it on. From that moment forward, its all been VR. His mom died in VR, he met other survivors in VR, build a time machine in VR, and the system is just doing what it was designed to do - show him everything he wants. What he wants is to the be the hero who saves the world from the evil AI his mom warned him about. The camera never shows us his moms face so that it can be a big reveal.. but I think he just doesn't remember her face because he was a kid. All of this is a play put on for him.
The only thing that would make me think that wasn't the case was that it showed flashbacks to the other characters, and showed the wacky VR world after he time traveled. Why would it bother generating things he would never experience or interact with. Why not just generate NPC's with build in backstories? I THINK the answer mightbe that it was done for us, the audience. At the very end the AI boy turns to face the camera, sticks out his tongue, and plays air guitar. He's not doing that for any of the characters, he's aware we are there watching, and he's breaking the forth wall to let us know.
I guess what I'm saying is that I think the system is aware that its showing an audience one loop of one guys life as he lives it in VR. That's the explained ending of movie..... Assuming I'm right
