What Really Happened!

Rating: 10/10 (18 July 2005)

OK. I have seen this movie twice and the only reason i watched it again was because its a great movie!
The movie is about Trevor, a Machinist/Insomniac who can't determine the difference between reality and illusion. He begins to see things that he can not explain, and through the movie he searches for answers. However, not being able to trust anyone, including himself makes this journey very difficult.
Exactly one year before the story takes place at one thirty, Trevor Reznick was driving down the street when he fiddles with his lighter and runs over an innocent child. The trauma from the event forces him into a state of severe insomnia and memory loss. Now, one year later, Trevor begins to experience some very strange things. He meets a guy named Ivan, who people say don't exist. Ivan is actually Trevors guilty conscience. If you notice the cowboy clothes that Ivan wheres are the same that Trevor wheres when the accident takes place. You see, after a year trevors conscience all of the sudden decides that it's time for him to remember what he did. So he begins to leave himself signs, the sticky note hangman. Trevor leaves himself notes, because he can't remember things. Thus, he leaves himself a note to remember the accident. Also the whole bleach thing. After killing someone he feels dirty and wrong so he's obsessed about becoming clean, thus the bleach! And the mother does not represent the whore(stevie). It's simple; everything that is an illusion comes form trevors memory! The constant deja vu, the mother as the waitress and how all of his mothers things were in the waitresses home. Anything that is an illusion or part of trevors conscience thats reaching out to him is something he remembers or is feeling, brought to life. The carnival ride is the most significant illusion. It shows everything that trevor has been through, his entire life that one year after the accident. And like the ride Trevor chose the highway to hell instead of heaven, I think that this is because after the accident he didn't do the right thing, because he was so traumatized! However after he realizes what has happened he turns himself in and is finally able to rest.
This is just my interpretation of the film, but i think that it makes the most sense! And if i have left anything out I'm sorry. Ther's so much detail in the movie its hard to write them all!
~ My heart goes out to Christian Bale, who had the guts to lose so much weight, which really made the movie come to life and become all that it was meant to be!
And the director, Wes Anderson, did an amazing job making the film feel real and yet so terrifying. I felt the Hitchock inspiration.
Last but not least, the writer. Genius! I love the work, and I can't even begin to express my admiration!
I'm really hoping to see more from these guys, they are amazing! If you see the movie you'll understand! and you'll agree.
Thank you, all of you, for making such a terrific movie! ~