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From: barth@ihlpl.ATT.COM (BARTH RICHARDS)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: Brazil
Message-ID: <4067@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 88 20:07:03 GMT
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Reply-To: barth@ihlpl.UUCP (BARTH RICHARDS)
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In article <810003@otter.hple.hp.com> tjfs@otter.hple.hp.com (Tim Steele)
writes:

>Well, there's the one where the hero dies in the chair, and there's the one
>where he goes off and starts a new life with his girlfriend.  Which one is the
>dream and which one is reality?

Neither.  Neither of the two endings you mentioned were in the film.  The
hero imagines the "new life with the girlfriend" ending while strapped in
the chair and he doesn't die in the film.  The end shows him siting in the
chair humming to himself.  Our view then shifts back to imagination, and
we see him floating off into the clouds, still strapped to the chair,
showing us that he has made the only escape left to him.


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