I hear that.
Though given who some of the audience members were I do think it is intertwined. But at this point we'd be going in circles when it comes to the "vest act".
By the way. The very end with spoiler (click to show/hide)
do you think that actually happened? I mean even the barbed wire. It seems so beyond normal that I wonder if that was more purely sort of an symbolic moment rather than a literal one that transpired. Like he sees the woman who he did not want to show up. So he decides to not go with the explosive vest. To me it's almost like that is the end of the real events. The barbed wire and her coming in to have a make out session. I almost find like it's something in his head or an idea that the film is showing us rather than actual events that occurred to these characters.
Yeah i interpreted that more as a symbolic moment, though in art "everything" is symbolic in a way, and there's not really a line between real and imaginary (since everything is, lol).
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To trap all his problems, frustrations and more or less petty hatreds in one room and blow them up, until that light outside the tunnel reminds him, that there's a wider perspective to it, i think that's how i sort of see that final scene?
Then again, some people believe that the finale in Take Shelter was literally about him having super powers, so to each their own, some like to take things more literally, and i won't call them "wrong".
I made fun of the comparison before, but if you liked this, i do urge you to watch Bergman's Winter Light (this will feel almost like a remake,
) it deals with the same concept, the inability to help, the silence of God, and all that usual Bergman stuff, just without the ecologial theme.
