I don’t understand this movie. I can’t tell what the vignettes of the janitor represent and I don’t fully grasp the symbolism of the following:

  • The tyre chains
  • The rapid aging of Jake’s parents
  • The main character’s name changing
  • the main character’s changing major
  • the snow (it shouldn’t be snowing in Oklahoma)
  • the father’s bandage
  • the childhood photograph that is both the main character and Jake
  • the ice cream shop Furthermore, I don’t quite grasp what is literal and what is symbolic in each segment.

To me this seems like a movie about decision paralysis and anxiety. I see the motif of change moreso than anything else in the story and am the differential outcomes. Of course, I might just be projecting my own fears unto something I don’t understand. On further thought, I think I just don’t know what’s happening and it unnerves me as a result. For some reason I found this movie scarier than most horror movies. It might just be because of the general unnerving atmosphere and confusion. Lastly, the ending makes no sense whatsoever. I have no idea what just happened. Not even a semblance of a clue.

I might just be bad at fiction.

  • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Here’s what I’ve heard and I vibed with it when I watched. They’re in the janitors idle day dream, what’s the deal with the janitor? Maybe he’s getting high off the fumes he’s cleaning with, maybe it’s an intentional attempted suicide and this is the DMT dream he’s having as he’s passing away, maybe he’s just day dreaming about some young people he saw and is also just very depressed.

    The names change as the janitor either loses parts of his mind or he just decides something different on a whim.