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Because I can see through the future, I choose to die
Francesco 2022-04-20 09:01:03
According to the idea of the film, the male protagonist has seen the future when he went to sleepwalking. Because he loves the people around him, he returns to his room to sleep. She was smiling before she died, what a sad story. He changed his destiny in the channel of God, that is, he chose to die to make the loved one live better, rather than live alone. So the essence of this film is to choose, because there is no fear because of love. The film is basically a teen movie, but it is very cleverly conceived, very similar to "The Butterfly Effect", a very delicate way of telling a story.
Extended Reading
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[Pommeroy is reading to the class from the 1954 short story "The Destructors" by Graham Greene]
Karen Pommeroy: "There would be headlines in the papers. Even the grown-up gangs who ran the betting at the all-in wrestling and the Barrow Boys would hear with respect of how Old Misery's house had been destroyed. It was as though this plan had been with him all his life, pondered through the seasons, now in his 15th year crystallized with the pain of puberty." What is Graham Greene trying to communicate with this passage? Why did the children break into Old Misery's House? Joanie?
Joanie James: They wanted to rob him.
Karen Pommeroy: Joanie, if you had actually read the short story, which, at a whopping 13 pages, would have kept you up all night, you would know that the children find a great deal of money in the mattress, but they burn it.
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Gretchen: Um, where do I sit?
Karen Pommeroy: Sit next to the boy you think is the cutest.
[the class gasps]
Karen Pommeroy: Quiet! Let her choose.