After watching the film, there is always a sense that the director deliberately confuses time, events, order and ending, which makes it difficult to form a convincing process if reasoning from the film's timeline, which is logically unworkable, but If the reasoning is based on the changes of multiple timelines and choices, then there can be multiple endings, and they are not contradictory to each other. What the film presents is just an example of some endings.
For example, after Thomas killed the seagull, he fell to his death in the process of painting, and then was eaten by the seagull; or Thomas was killed by the incarnation of the sea king after the statement of the crime, etc., it is possible, in the ending Under certain circumstances, it can be said that it is very interesting to combine the plot reasonably and get different inspirations.
In fact, when I was thinking about this, there was a vague shadow of Borges' "The Garden of Forking Paths". I walked out through different paths in a maze. Since books can be labyrinths, movies can also be labyrinths. .
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