Official Zhuk Rating: 9.1/10 bananas
Explanation.... put in simpler terms than a lot I have seen.
Here is my take on the film. [I basically think it revolves around the principle of "Schrodingers Cat." Look it up on google and see what you think.]
1. Nemo can see the future; when faced with a decision, he experiences a kind of personal big bang where all possible worlds resulting from any given choice extend out from him in his mind at the point of decision.
2. The few seconds while he is running after the train is one such instant. The film shows SOME of what he sees. (it would be impossible to show all of the possible worlds... they diverge more at every decision he faces in every possible world and are infinite).
3. The old Nemo we see speaking is the end of one of these possible paths. He recounts all of the stories because at this point, they all exist (or not) equally. The boy hasn't made the decision so everything shown in the film is equally real and unreal at the same time.
4. His personal big bang ends when he has viewed all of the possibilities to their end. When he makes his decision, to run away, all of the possible worlds shrink back to the point of decision and cease to exist. [Nemo apparently doesn't choose the path which ends with him as an old man telling the story to a journalist because that world too starts to unwind.]
6. We don't know how Nemo's life pans out. He makes one decision... one big bang of possible worlds and big crunch and they cease to exist. But there will be a repeat of this occurrence at every major decision he makes in the future so at this point anything could happen. (though we can probably deduce from the film that the probability of him meeting / ending up with anna is high as he seems to want to make decision that lead him to her.)
7. If you wanted to watch the film in "real time" you would need to put it on fast forward to the point where you see the whole film as a 45 second flash. All possible worlds... decision. Bam. gone.
The big question is.... which way does he turn when he reaches the end of that street he is running down? [Cue next big bang.]
1. Nemo can see the future; when faced with a decision, he experiences a kind of personal big bang where all possible worlds resulting from any given choice extend out from him in his mind at the point of decision.
2. The few seconds while he is running after the train is one such instant. The film shows SOME of what he sees. (it would be impossible to show all of the possible worlds... they diverge more at every decision he faces in every possible world and are infinite).
3. The old Nemo we see speaking is the end of one of these possible paths. He recounts all of the stories because at this point, they all exist (or not) equally. The boy hasn't made the decision so everything shown in the film is equally real and unreal at the same time.
4. His personal big bang ends when he has viewed all of the possibilities to their end. When he makes his decision, to run away, all of the possible worlds shrink back to the point of decision and cease to exist. [Nemo apparently doesn't choose the path which ends with him as an old man telling the story to a journalist because that world too starts to unwind.]
6. We don't know how Nemo's life pans out. He makes one decision... one big bang of possible worlds and big crunch and they cease to exist. But there will be a repeat of this occurrence at every major decision he makes in the future so at this point anything could happen. (though we can probably deduce from the film that the probability of him meeting / ending up with anna is high as he seems to want to make decision that lead him to her.)
7. If you wanted to watch the film in "real time" you would need to put it on fast forward to the point where you see the whole film as a 45 second flash. All possible worlds... decision. Bam. gone.
The big question is.... which way does he turn when he reaches the end of that street he is running down? [Cue next big bang.]
