Post by Natalie on Jan 2, 2014 15:33:28 GMT -5
My apologies if this has already been discussed, but Steve's thread about the fortune teller scene kind of got me thinking about what it possibly meant with the black box test.
The grand daughter says that "it was simply a reflection. Fear is the killer....it was all in your mind".
And it got me thinking, the "evil" in the box was all in Mike's head, and the "evil" in the box was "simply a reflection" of what was in his head.
If "fear is the killer", the killer is the Tall Man, therefore the Tall Man is all the fear in Mike's head.
Whatever is in his head, is reflected into what seems to be reality.
I remember in a post I made a few years ago, I asked who the "his" referred to when at the end of Oblivion, the Tall Man picked Reggie up by his neck and said, "ice cream man, it's all in his head."
Now, could mean that everything really is in Mike's head, as confirmed by the Tall Man, who could possibly be a reflection of Mike himself? Could it ultimately be Mike trying to tell himself everything is in his head and that he needs to wake up from a nightmare?
But if all of this is in Mike's head, how is it projected into reality, where it affects everyone around Mike?
Maybe it's not really reality. Is what we are seeing throughout the 4 films all the a really long nightmare Mike is having? Perhaps we are viewing the nightmares he is having during the weeks after his parents died? Jody did say that after his parents funeral, he "had nightmares for weeks". And in the dream world, dreams can appear to be hours in only a few seconds of real-time sleep. (Inception?) These "weeks" of nightmares could account for all the "years" of Mike chasing the Tall Man and all of the devastation.
In dreams, we could do almost anything. I have had dreams where I could teleport to different places, and had magical powers, and so on. Literally anything can happen. This could explain the telekinetic and telepathic powers that are shown throughout the films between Mike, Jody, and the Tall Man.
Now, at the end of Oblivion, we see Mike having a "flashback" to when he was a kid. Reggie picks Mike up, and they hear Mike's whispering voice. Kid Mike then says "It's just the wind", and it fades to black. Could Mike's whispering be something outside his dream?
To elaborate on that last question, I will bring up what was said in John Dies at the End.
When Dave is talking to "Robert Marley" at a party, Robert interprets one of Dave's dreams he was having during a thunderstorm. Where he was back with his girlfriend. She had dynamite and holding a cartoon plunger detonator, and the explosion at the end of his dream became the clap of thunder outside his window.
And Robert asks Dave, "how did the mind know that the thunder was coming?" His mind started the dream 30 seconds before the thunder. And he goes on saying that "time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud. Your mind... is a flying corn snake hovering through all the possibilities."
But that thunder/explosion effect does actually happen. I personally have had a dream before where a noise in my dream was being caused by the sound of my kicking the wall in my sleep.
So, perhaps the whispering could be something outside of Mike's dream. And just maybe, the faded ending of Oblivion is Mike actually waking up from this horrible nightmare.
EDIT:
What also has gotten me to think that the Tall Man is just a reflection of Mike was the scene where he comes face to face with the Tall Man for the first time. Just after the caretaker meets with a sphere, we see this shot where the Tall Man walks around the corner, and Mike goes "umm...oh s**t". How the two walk toward each other is just like a reflection. They take one step, then stop, then continue toward each other.
The grand daughter says that "it was simply a reflection. Fear is the killer....it was all in your mind".
And it got me thinking, the "evil" in the box was all in Mike's head, and the "evil" in the box was "simply a reflection" of what was in his head.
If "fear is the killer", the killer is the Tall Man, therefore the Tall Man is all the fear in Mike's head.
Whatever is in his head, is reflected into what seems to be reality.
I remember in a post I made a few years ago, I asked who the "his" referred to when at the end of Oblivion, the Tall Man picked Reggie up by his neck and said, "ice cream man, it's all in his head."
Now, could mean that everything really is in Mike's head, as confirmed by the Tall Man, who could possibly be a reflection of Mike himself? Could it ultimately be Mike trying to tell himself everything is in his head and that he needs to wake up from a nightmare?
But if all of this is in Mike's head, how is it projected into reality, where it affects everyone around Mike?
Maybe it's not really reality. Is what we are seeing throughout the 4 films all the a really long nightmare Mike is having? Perhaps we are viewing the nightmares he is having during the weeks after his parents died? Jody did say that after his parents funeral, he "had nightmares for weeks". And in the dream world, dreams can appear to be hours in only a few seconds of real-time sleep. (Inception?) These "weeks" of nightmares could account for all the "years" of Mike chasing the Tall Man and all of the devastation.
In dreams, we could do almost anything. I have had dreams where I could teleport to different places, and had magical powers, and so on. Literally anything can happen. This could explain the telekinetic and telepathic powers that are shown throughout the films between Mike, Jody, and the Tall Man.
Now, at the end of Oblivion, we see Mike having a "flashback" to when he was a kid. Reggie picks Mike up, and they hear Mike's whispering voice. Kid Mike then says "It's just the wind", and it fades to black. Could Mike's whispering be something outside his dream?
To elaborate on that last question, I will bring up what was said in John Dies at the End.
When Dave is talking to "Robert Marley" at a party, Robert interprets one of Dave's dreams he was having during a thunderstorm. Where he was back with his girlfriend. She had dynamite and holding a cartoon plunger detonator, and the explosion at the end of his dream became the clap of thunder outside his window.
And Robert asks Dave, "how did the mind know that the thunder was coming?" His mind started the dream 30 seconds before the thunder. And he goes on saying that "time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud. Your mind... is a flying corn snake hovering through all the possibilities."
But that thunder/explosion effect does actually happen. I personally have had a dream before where a noise in my dream was being caused by the sound of my kicking the wall in my sleep.
So, perhaps the whispering could be something outside of Mike's dream. And just maybe, the faded ending of Oblivion is Mike actually waking up from this horrible nightmare.
EDIT:
What also has gotten me to think that the Tall Man is just a reflection of Mike was the scene where he comes face to face with the Tall Man for the first time. Just after the caretaker meets with a sphere, we see this shot where the Tall Man walks around the corner, and Mike goes "umm...oh s**t". How the two walk toward each other is just like a reflection. They take one step, then stop, then continue toward each other.