What it comes down to, though, is the end, and the problem with Brazil is that depending on which version you've seen, the ending could be completely different. All the people in the chain are sort of unwitting accomplices that help the parasite survive without knowing it. When the pigs die, the Sampler dumps them in the river, and the parasite moves into orchids, which the Thief then buys to make his brainwashing stealing drug, continuing the parasite's life cycle. That's why Kris and Jeff are so messed up throughout the movie–they're experiencing the pigs' mood swings and don't realize it. Each pig is still connected to the person their parasite used to live in, and the pigs' lives affect their human counterparts' lives. The pigs are watched over by the Sampler (the pig guy), who can see the lives of the Thief's victims through the pigs. Once he's got his money, the Thief transfers the parasite to pigs so his victims don't die. The Thief infects people with the parasite to brainwash them and steal their money. So in the worm-pig-orchid life cycle, the timeline goes like this. As Carruth himself explained it, "There is the worm-pig-orchid life cycle, and each of these have characters that are continuing to perform these little tricks in nature that keep the cycle going, but none of them know that the next one in the line exists." In a nutshell, the two main characters, Kris and Jeff, are infected with a parasite that intermittently lives in humans, orchids, and pigs. What's she going to do? Explain how she got there? That makes Em trapped in the worst reality instead of the best, since to everyone in that reality, she broke into a house, tried to murder a girl, and then tried to pass herself off as a dead girl. But the thing about that reality was that nobody left the house, so nobody even knew about the millions of doppelgangers galavanting around in the night. When she wakes up the next morning, the happy Em she dumped in the bathtub is gone, and her new, happy Kevin gets a call from. By the end of the movie, the million-plus possible realities of their group are a hopeless jumble, so Em decides to pick the best possible one for her, even if she has to kill the happy Em in that reality to make it happen. Where– as THiNC realized after talking to the director–she made the decision to go to Paris with Kevin at the beginning of the night. For her original group? No, she's looking for a reality where she's still happy. Peters on the plane and tells Peters she's "in insurance." She's been sent back to keep track of Peters and follow the virus's genesis as it spreads.Īs the final moments play out, we watch Emily, or Em, going from house to house looking for. That's echoed in the words of the woman (who you may remember from the future scenes) who sits down next to Dr. They know they can't stop the apocalypse from happening in the past–they just want to keep themselves from dying in the future. But this time, Cole figured out who had the virus before he died and got the message to the future, so the people in the future can make an antidote based on the virus's original, unmutated form. We saw this at the beginning of the movie.īasically, the reason Cole was chosen to go back in time was because he was already at the airport where the virus outbreak started. As he's bleeding out, we get a close-up shot of a boy in the airport watching and realize that–oh yeah!–that's Cole as a boy, watching this unknown man in a Hawaiian shirt get killed. Cole goes after Peters with a gun, hoping to prevent the apocalypse, only to get shot by security and die. Peters, who they know has the virus that's going to kill billions of people. Cole (Bruce Willis) and a now-blonde Kathryn are following Dr. If you forget about the guy whose life they ruined to get there. just the most depressing ending ever, but there is a glimmer of hope: Arctor tucks a single flower into his boot and says "A present for my friends at Thanksgiving." Basically, he'll take the flower to the agency, and they'll figure out how to blow the case wide open. Bob Arctor is all but brain dead, and New Path assigned him to farm the blue flowers it uses to make Substance D, knowing that he's too dumb now to realize what he's doing. So when we see Arctor at the end, farming in a field of blue flowers, we know the agency's plan worked. There, he'll hopefully have enough brain function left to report to his superiors and tell them how the drug is being made. He doesn't know it, but him being undercover is actually part of another plot to get him hooked on Substance D, reduced to a walking vegetable when the drug kills all his brain cells, and then sent to rehab at New Path–the company that makes the drug and makes money rehabbing the addicts. But the gist is, Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) is working undercover with a group of junkies to try to find the source of the illegal drug Substance D.
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