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37°2 le matin (1986)
Movie All In Zorg's Mind
I came to the IMDb message board for Betty Blue because I wanted to see if anyone else thought the movie was in Zorg's mind.
At the very end of the movie, Zorg hears while he is writing alone in his kitchen "are you writing?" and he says "no, I am thinking". Zorg also looks very relaxed and fulfilled as though he had just finished his novel.
My friend says he thinks the whole movie is in Zorg's mind, and the boiling pot at the beginning and the end brings the story together for this point. Betty may just be a character he was working on in his book, and he was thinking out his novel, that is why he says he is thinking at the very end. Plus the characters and situations seem like a writer coming up with situations and characters for a novel.
Give me your two cents...I would appreciate it. Great movie!
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Another Parallel To Jesus
The elevator scene with Klaatu and Helen, I believe is symbolic of a confessional booth used in religious context. In that scene Klaatu spills his beans to Helen. I think that the religious symbolism in the movie is very strong, but not meant to back the Christian point of view. The point is that if Jesus himself did come back today, he would be put down by many. Just seeing the movie for the first time the other day, I find it amazing that 50 something years later the movie is still amazingly contemporary and dead on with the way people are still on this Earth. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who has not seen it, and I was blown away of how much I enjoyed it. The music is really great too.