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Each to their own. I thought it was absolutely perfect, including the misteries it left unanswered (what you call "holes"). But at least you're not inventing information to defend your opinion, just like buttergun tried to do.
And I honestly think you exagerate. There are some point left for the audience to decide for themselves - and probably argue about for years to come. And that, for me, regarding the art of story telling, is really amazing. After all, as Neil Gaiman said, a mistery unsolved is always better for stories than a secret explained. The Limbo-verse does leave room for some subjective interpretation, but not whatever interpretation, as you put it. It was not a million dots, it was a few. And I like it that way. I'm tired of tidy stories where in the end everything makes perfect absolute sense, like a freaking fairy tale. Lifes doesn't work that way, and nor should any decent fiction. A couple of things should be left unclear, unresolved. You have to walk out of the theather - or in the case, the TV room - with something to talk about with your friends, instead of just go "oh, so that's it", and then forget about it. Think about it, would that 80s "Dungeons Dragons" cartoon be such a pop-geek icon today if the kids actually made back home in a final chapter? I believe not. You have to have something to ponder about after the end. Or, at the very least, to wait for in the extended DVD version...
But, bottomline is, all science fiction answers people were expecting were not given, nor the ones that were given made the "perfect absolute sense" people with little imagination of their own like to be fed in the end, but the characters - all of them - had resolution and completed their respective personal growth arcs, and that's really more important than the whodunnit. And, besides, yes I freaking loved it... |
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