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Re: SPOILERS ending discussion SPOILERS by Fussbett 12/03/2006, 10:54pm PST
I agree with everything you've said, but you've only addressed the symbolism and metaphor. Is your position that the movie doesn't make sense on a literal leve at all, and must only be viewed through the symbolism?

Mischief Maker wrote:

In the end, when the spaceman finally accepts his death, then he goes back to the repeated modern day scene when instead of going to surgery, he walks with his wife who gives him the seed she wants planted over her grave.

"goes back" ...in time? ...in his memories?
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