Talk:Waking the Dead (film)

There is also a BBC TV serial with the same name: http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/wakingthedead/episodeguide_series1.shtml —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.103.208.113 (talk) 19:50, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:07, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Regarding The Ending
As film critic Roger Ebert points out, the ending as envisioned by director Salles is purposefully ambiguous. Assuming Sarah really did die in the car bombing, only two options are permissible to explain the film's ending.

1. He hallucinated her 2. He is visited by her spirit

Either of those endings 'works' since the premise is that Fielding's (and Sarah's) pain is eased by their finally being able to say goodby to each other. (At least in this life)

However, there is another interpretation that some have ventured, based on some of the things the mysterious Sarah says on that final night she finally shows up in Fielding's apartment 10 years after she supposedly died in the car bombing.

1. She keeps talking about how 'their lives' are different now and how their goals 'in life' have taken them so far apart.

2. She makes a statement about how 'they' told her that over time her longing for Fielding would go away, and how distressed she is because it never has left her.

It has been pointed out that a dead person coming back likely wouldn't speak like this. So for some viewers it's a viable alternative that Sarah, the driven idealist, made the ultimate sacrifice of her love for Fielding by either faking her own death or using the car bombing as a means of faking her death so she could fully pursue her revolutionary ideals. Only she still watches Fielding from afar and still caught up in her longing for him she begins getting too close and ends up finally realizing he needs the closure of a final visit.

I lean towards the interpretation that Sarah really did die, but that it also really is Sarah that appears to Fielding at the end. God has, in the past, allowed significant exceptions to the natural circumstances of the world. These things are called 'miracles' and while some are in response to prayer, others are simply God dropping His grace from Heaven onto some unsuspecting soul.

I believe at first Fielding IS hallucinating Sarah, since his hurt over her death and his longing for her have never left him. Seeing his pain from Heaven, how he is virtually crippling himself with his sense of loss, she comes as an angel of mercy for a real visit that allows them both to heal their souls and come to grips with the separation they have had and must continue to have, at least until they are reunited at some point in the future in Heaven.

The ambiguity of the ending makes it so each interpretation is 'valid' which was Salles' intention all along. No matter what you think happened, the ending result is that in the end Fielding is no longer in pain. He can go on with his life, loving Sarah in his heart, never forgetting her, and looking forward to the day they can be together again.

As you can see, this film greatly affected me, and I highly recommend it to any who have not seen it. Brian Cates Manofaiki (talk) 02:12, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Articles
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 * Awake at the Wheel
 * LOVE AND DEATH IN CHICAGO
 * Waking the Dead Filmmaker Keith Gordon Bucks the Hollywood System
 * Interview with Keith Gordon director of Waking the Dead
 * Keith Gordon on Keith Gordon, Part Two: Less Afraid of Happy Endings

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What is "serious suds"?
The quoted movie review uses the term "serious suds"? Is it substance abuse, which are never not serious? Or, a nod to someone for brewing/drinking a beverage with a good head? Or is it a type-o from the source? This sentence in the review is worthless to a reader without more context. Jezebelsalome (talk) 16:07, 1 January 2024 (UTC)