Movies You Can't Understand

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Originally Posted by dmaul1114

I think that (both movie and the book) are meant to be more open ended. Leave it up to the audience to

[Show spoiler]decide if it was all real or just in his head. But others disagree and argue strongly for one side or the other. The book does make it seem more likely to have all been real though--it's been a decade or more since I've read it so I don't recall the ending exactly.

I always thought the end was a pay-off to all of the times in the movie that the characters could not keep track of each other's names (since their lifestyles discouraged individuality in the first place "I want to FIT IN!"). Even Patrick's lawyer did not know who he was while they were talking face to face.

I think Patrick was definitely doing those things in the movie.