Dylan O'Brien Opens Up About Most Personal Role Yet - Flashback Interview

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
  • #DylanOBrien #Flashback
    Dylan O'Brien on the personal challenges of filming psychological thriller Flashback and how he got into the mindset for the role.
    00:00 - 01:09 What draws Dylan to the apocalypse adventure genre?
    01:10 - 02:32 How did Dylan prepare psychologically for the role?
    02:33 - 03:41 What did Dylan learn about himself from playing Fred?
    03:42 - 04:38 What risks does Dylan still want to take in his career?
    Vertigo Releasing presents Flashback on digital platforms 4 June 2021: bit.ly/Flashback-Vertigo
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    A young man (Dylan O’Brien, The Maze Runner franchise), must unravel a disturbing mystery which develops from the fragmented, surreal memories of his past in intense psychological thriller Flashback.
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  • @ScarlettJ1221
    @ScarlettJ1221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1170

    I'm just gonna say Dylan O'Brien is a underrated actor, I said what I said

    • @vpkayy
      @vpkayy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Lmao you’re right-

    • @iconic6445
      @iconic6445 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      how is he underrated?!😳😂

    • @katiemclean1956
      @katiemclean1956 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      THANK YOU

    • @icylann4578
      @icylann4578 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He’s so cute and very very talented

    • @tina.a8224
      @tina.a8224 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Facts! No 🧢

  • @jessicaratcliffey3396
    @jessicaratcliffey3396 3 ปีที่แล้ว +506

    we all need another series with this man in it 😌😌

    • @tc5262
      @tc5262 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      but he needs to be the main character

    • @thenax8662
      @thenax8662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hell yeah.

    • @tilda8990
      @tilda8990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yesssssss

  • @MidnightEyesxx
    @MidnightEyesxx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +431

    Dylan was beyond fantastic in this movie, as always 😭 He’s so criminally underrated and I look very forward to the day he gets his well deserved Oscar 🥰

    • @Bella-ls3pe
      @Bella-ls3pe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Absolutely agreed but the Oscars aren’t what they used to be anymore, it’s sometimes just all about money for the movies and stuff like that but I hope he gets lots of awards too :)

    • @vvanaax1889
      @vvanaax1889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Bella-ls3pe i really did not know that- He really does deserve an oscar tho he is incredibly talented.

    • @Bella-ls3pe
      @Bella-ls3pe 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vvanaax1889 Yeah it’s really sad that they stage a lot of things but totally agree with you

  • @ScarlettJ1221
    @ScarlettJ1221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +419

    I can't stand how Incredible Dylan O'Brien looks, have mercy on my soul plz

    • @toqa1d869
      @toqa1d869 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love how we watch literally the same people on TH-cam 😂 from one direction and harry styles to dylan o’brein

    • @miamartin8411
      @miamartin8411 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      when i read that i started singing mercy by shawn LOL

  • @siaahsan6385
    @siaahsan6385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +201

    The promotion for this movie isn't enough! If not for this interview and a few articles, you wouldn't even know if the movie's releasing!

    • @dylanobrienloverdylanobrie2196
      @dylanobrienloverdylanobrie2196 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Because of the pandemic. They are doing it all online. And I think hoping fans with word of mouth as well b

    • @vpkayy
      @vpkayy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      A bunch of fans heard about it and kind of just spread the word out

  • @detectivetaylorswift
    @detectivetaylorswift 3 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    He looks so happy in this. I hope Dyl is happy.

  • @lilliannysteruel9048
    @lilliannysteruel9048 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Dylan 95% of the video: uh, um, yeah
    Dylan 5% of the video: giving nice answers

    • @kayafleux3178
      @kayafleux3178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      that’s dylan in every interview hahah i love it

  • @anaisdgsn
    @anaisdgsn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    Dylan O'Brien is the best, I love him

  • @luceroamar1428
    @luceroamar1428 3 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    I’M SO PROUD OF HIM AND WISH MORE PEOPLE KNOW HOW TALENTED HE IS

  • @Sweetie2566
    @Sweetie2566 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Flashback deserves all the recognition, the acting that Dylan has pulled off in this movie is just insane, this man deserves an Oscar! 🤯💯👏🏻

  • @phoebeterner7018
    @phoebeterner7018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    flashback is the most insane movie i have ever seen. it is so complex and intelligent and it really cool. dylan’s acting is OUTSTANDING as always and i love that this movie plays with the idea that u can exist in multiple realities at once. i love this movie and i can confidently say that this is 100% my new favorite movie.

    • @helenadamnjanovic8976
      @helenadamnjanovic8976 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So, can you please explain me because I watched it and I don't understand it at all

    • @amycope7970
      @amycope7970 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@helenadamnjanovic8976 short version: it’s a movie about choices. About how every moment we make a decision it impacts the way our life turns out. The merc / multiverse is simply a vehicle for the message.
      But really there are lots of different ways to interpret it. Nobody should watch it simply because they like Dylan O’Brien, he is amazing but these existential crisis / alternate reality movies are definitely not for everyone. This is my interpretation of the story explained chronologically for anyone who had no idea what was going on.
      ***
      We meet the adult Fred in one version of reality at the beginning.
      When teenage Fred is totally flipping out on merc in the squat house, he is experiencing all of the different possible lives he could have, but he can’t control it and is basically od’ing. During that trip he travels to our adult Fred’s ‘current’ time. Scar face appears to our Fred in the timeline we’ve started because he is trying to guide him back to that night in the squat with Cindy so that he doesn’t OD. This is why scar face appears right before the first two flashbacks which both have Fred temporarily coming back to that room with Cindy freaking out telling him to come back to her.
      There’s a bunch of other stuff / metaphors / lessons / clues that happen in the middle but for simplicity sake I’ll jump ahead to when the 3 guys go back to the squat house as adults.
      This is when he realises he never left that room as a teen and is actually still on merc, he follows the scar face kid and experiences a ton of different realities / times at once (including the ones we saw at the start when scar face first appeared), he freaks out completely and whacks the kid with the lamp in an effort to make it all stop.
      But he’s still on merc and experiencing these two different realities (the adult and the teen) simultaneously hence the OD scenes in the bathroom.
      Next day he thinks it’s all over but when he freaks out at work / school he realises again that it’s still happening and that he is still simultaneously a teen, an adult, and in that room on merc.
      Then he realises he can change what happens by going back in time and changing his choices (which he can only do because he’s still on merc). So he goes back in time a little, leaves work / steals mums car and heads for the squat house, flicking between both timelines to get back to Cindy and the original night at the squat house.
      Now he understands what’s happening and chooses to explore with Cindy.
      They do this for years, with the beach house / travelling etc whilst in the original teen timeline they are living as bums and hooked on merc, which is what allows them to keep exploring their alternate realities.
      It seems he hasn’t really had a relationship with his mum at all (there are no memories or suggestion of any time with her between teen Fred and 30 year old Fred. Every flash of her face he sees are either young or old, not in between)
      He visits her as a bum and realises the screaming face he sees when he shifts realities is hers. This is when he decides to live a linear timeline and deal with the highs and lows as they come (breaking the necklace and Cindy saying it doesn’t matter because they can just find it again, represents how choices have more meaning when there are consequences and you can’t just jump to another reality). He also doesn’t want his mum to remember him as the bum version.
      So he says goodbye to Cindy and goes back to the time prior to meeting her and consciously chooses the life where he can spend it with Karen and have a relationship with his mum until she dies.
      When I say trip I don’t mean like an acid trip. The alternate realities are real, but he needs to keep taking the merc to be able to move around them.
      That’s my take anyway. I loved it, and I love that different people can take different things from it but it made perfect sense to me (after a couple of views) and every time I watch it I discover more about the story and change my interpretation slightly.

  • @virgomoonxoxo
    @virgomoonxoxo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    i just finished watching flashback and all i can say is woowwwww. his acting was PHENOMENAL. hes so underrated and he deserves an oscar for this movie seriously ! i’m so proud of him :’))

  • @5kafule5
    @5kafule5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    That was like the shortest interview ever and so suddenly over, and the clips are kinda distracting. But maybe I'm just nervous because the movie is out now and I'm so not ready for it.. 🤯 But it's always a pleasure to listen to Dylan, that cutie. His reactions to some of the questions, just aw..!

  • @maly2475
    @maly2475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    i cant help but notice the fact that his cap matches her chair lol

  • @rumaisasuleman3691
    @rumaisasuleman3691 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I've loved him since maze runner❤️

  • @mdcfan9842
    @mdcfan9842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Just finished watching it and I have so many questions lol. Might have to rewatch it a few more times, but what an amazing performance by Dylan, he continues to amaze me with his acting skills 👏 I'm so proud of him!!! he surpassed all his previous roles

  • @shilahlacoe8574
    @shilahlacoe8574 3 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    I think Dylan would be a great actor for a Marvel character. He's good with action films and has great comedic timing-also not terrible to look at lol

    • @kayafleux3178
      @kayafleux3178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      yes exactly

    • @nilanishan7535
      @nilanishan7535 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      as a marvel and dylan fan im offended by how i didnt come up with that

    • @KateJn
      @KateJn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@kayafleux3178 what character do you think he could play in the marvel universe.

    • @madelynoriannaguzmandeloss2962
      @madelynoriannaguzmandeloss2962 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@KateJn Spider-Man or any villian

  • @5kafule5
    @5kafule5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    That's gonna be interesting, I'm sure. Can't wait to hear Dylan's answers! And so excited to watch this movie (kinda scared, too) 🤩

    • @calumsanderson6741
      @calumsanderson6741 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's far less scary than the trailers play it up to be. It's much more sentimental than scary

  • @lyra9767
    @lyra9767 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Dylan can look 15 and 30 at the same time🔥❤️

  • @ludovicaliguori5258
    @ludovicaliguori5258 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Half of my heart belongs to him since when I was 12 (now I'm 20 btw)...
    He's such a good person and such a good actor, and like he said in 2014 at Giffoni Film festival, the two things are related; in everything he does, he proves to be the best.
    He is so perfect in every role he plays that you couldn't even imagine anyone else doing them.
    He knows how to convey the emotions and the feelings of his characters so well that even the viewer can feel them on his own skin.
    He deserves the best!! 💙💙💙
    P.s. I'm sorry for my scholastic english 🙈

  • @maryem7186
    @maryem7186 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Can I just say, I really liked this interviewer :) She was very sweet and personable

  • @Kelly-qv7gy
    @Kelly-qv7gy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    He's an upcoming actor. We will see much more from him I believe.
    A huge fan right here from the Netherlands!!!

  • @nandossam
    @nandossam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    he did perfect
    he did amazing
    he was stunning..
    i was speechless.. #Flashback

  • @jaehyungotnoass
    @jaehyungotnoass 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    i already watched the half of the movie and i love ittt he’s so talented as always

  • @jaehyungotnoass
    @jaehyungotnoass 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    the movie needs more promo!!!!

  • @rubyhoughton1227
    @rubyhoughton1227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I hope you feels better because he said he was struggling at the time 💖 he’s an amazing actor 💖

  • @mitzibass7251
    @mitzibass7251 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Just siting here patiently waiting😂

  • @3ambere
    @3ambere 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Honestly, this man never age

  • @scirfay
    @scirfay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Dylan obrien ❤

  • @noeevp8092
    @noeevp8092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    SOOO EXCITED!!

  • @alaala8401
    @alaala8401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    aaaa i’m so happy that it’s finally out🥺😍

  • @Really_Its_Me
    @Really_Its_Me 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I just watched this movie n I’m still like whaaaa…😵‍💫

  • @gracemeyer7721
    @gracemeyer7721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    0:27 he sounds like that one interview he did with tbs when hes like “wait wait wait where do i know you from”

  • @444m1ahh
    @444m1ahh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    will i be watching this at 7:30am you ask? yes. yes i will. anything for dylan

  • @DinaHoechlin1982
    @DinaHoechlin1982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Just saw it on here TH-cam and Instagram, I’m so freakin proud of Dylan ❤️❤️❤️🥵🥵👏🏼👏🏼

  • @elisevh8625
    @elisevh8625 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excited for this movie AHHHH

  • @honeybee9922
    @honeybee9922 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can’t wait 😌

  • @klarissa7954
    @klarissa7954 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i’m so excited

  • @bergthorasolhalfdans116
    @bergthorasolhalfdans116 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Ahhhh I can’t wait!!!

  • @jks2023
    @jks2023 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    he's so down to earth i love his honest answersss

  • @sunflowerproductions.
    @sunflowerproductions. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He is an fantastic actor, super down to earth, kind & just such a cool dude! He's the best ❤

  • @adjctive
    @adjctive 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    excited

  • @anaghasharma462
    @anaghasharma462 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The interviewer is so good though

  • @nzebram
    @nzebram 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    When you go to sleep at night and you wake up in the mornin👀👀

  • @Itskcdiaries
    @Itskcdiaries 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love him even more now

  • @kyrafoley2179
    @kyrafoley2179 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    hes all i need rn

  • @syd1367
    @syd1367 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    dylan is such a great actor

  • @ludovicaliguori5258
    @ludovicaliguori5258 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    THAT SMILE. THAT DAMNED SMILE.

  • @DinaHoechlin1982
    @DinaHoechlin1982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I can’t wait for part 2 tomorrow, I love him , my babe ❤️❤️🥵🥵🙌🏼🙌🏼

  • @tina.a8224
    @tina.a8224 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    He looks so happy 😍

  • @eliftutuneken
    @eliftutuneken 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    heyecanlı bekleyişşş 😚

  • @rodyelgohary270
    @rodyelgohary270 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    HE'S SO ADORABLE HELP

  • @fitnesswithjulie458
    @fitnesswithjulie458 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i hope hes happy. i love him

  • @piliomar31
    @piliomar31 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How the heck this "little" channel could get in touch with Dylan, and apparently was the only one :0

  • @_.slvtfh._
    @_.slvtfh._ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Never been this early :P also i love dylan!

  • @sasha_gil
    @sasha_gil 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    DYLAN'S INCREDIBLE!!!!!

  • @normawehbii4950
    @normawehbii4950 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dylan deserves an oscar

  • @athinashaba6106
    @athinashaba6106 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    the love of my life

  • @nishatronak2767
    @nishatronak2767 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love Dylan ❤️

  • @sasha_gil
    @sasha_gil 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love him 😭🥺🙌

  • @Rachel-rr1fb
    @Rachel-rr1fb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm in love with this man!!!

    • @jet5995
      @jet5995 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      🖤

  • @sandrasrensen5687
    @sandrasrensen5687 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love him🐺❤️

  • @sgoorsgr
    @sgoorsgr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    afternoon? or half the night! cuz my country the time is different

  • @Help-xk4qh
    @Help-xk4qh 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love him

  • @YOURFAVORITEITGIRL
    @YOURFAVORITEITGIRL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ily

  • @santinaribeiro8539
    @santinaribeiro8539 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ❤ Dylan O'brien ❤
    🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

  • @valeska7363
    @valeska7363 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Where I can see the movie?I'm from latinoamericana Ecuador

  • @rubyhoughton1227
    @rubyhoughton1227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Was he struggling when he read the script or thought out filming it? Either way I hope he feels better 💖

  • @rosalamonica8621
    @rosalamonica8621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    where can i watch the movie with subtitles?

  • @salometvildiani7546
    @salometvildiani7546 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love you dylan❤❤ so much🥰🥰🥰

  • @elifdemirtas5614
    @elifdemirtas5614 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    😚😚 Dylan O'Brien 💕💕

  • @martinasquillacciotti
    @martinasquillacciotti 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Where can i watch it?

  • @sr-five3924
    @sr-five3924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thx to him one of my fav random things to do is to yell THOMAS!!!

  • @dylanobrienloverdylanobrie2196
    @dylanobrienloverdylanobrie2196 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He's so funny

  • @stephaniecamilo6744
    @stephaniecamilo6744 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @kipcornkruimel7698
    @kipcornkruimel7698 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Where do I watch this movie?

    • @getintofilm
      @getintofilm  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Check out FindAnyFilm for loads of viewing options: www.findanyfilm.com/film/flashback~173672/digital

  • @alexakvick8504
    @alexakvick8504 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2 days shawties

  • @rubyhoughton1227
    @rubyhoughton1227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He’s so cute 😂💖

  • @car4341
    @car4341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ❤❤❤🥺🥰🥰🥰💘💘

  • @serenashanks7979
    @serenashanks7979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    i hope it’s not a sad one :(

    • @anela2141
      @anela2141 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its nott :)

  • @maraxx6178
    @maraxx6178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    THE GC:

    • @jessicafellows5981
      @jessicafellows5981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      im depressed that the live chat has ended

    • @dylanismyhusband9612
      @dylanismyhusband9612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jessicafellows5981 ME TOO OMG

    • @maraxx6178
      @maraxx6178 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      SAME BECAUSE I CANT SEE WHO LIKED

    • @dylanismyhusband9612
      @dylanismyhusband9612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I DONT KNOW HOW IT HAPPEND BUT I LOVE YALL SO MUCH

  • @selin6745
    @selin6745 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    oyyyş yavru

    • @seyma4996
      @seyma4996 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      nslabalsjlsjxkd

    • @softxstranger7620
      @softxstranger7620 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Aba Türkler gelmiş hoş gelmişşş :)

    • @selin6745
      @selin6745 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@seyma4996 JSKAKDKAKSKKWSKWKISKWO

  • @serenashanks7979
    @serenashanks7979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    #BringBackTeenWolf

  • @stephaniecamilo6744
    @stephaniecamilo6744 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    🥰🥰🥰🥰

  • @stephaniecamilo6744
    @stephaniecamilo6744 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    💖💖💖💖💖

  • @jaehyungotnoass
    @jaehyungotnoass 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    he‘s the loml

  • @byfreelamateria1998
    @byfreelamateria1998 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Muy buen actor

  • @ihateyou9061
    @ihateyou9061 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    hes literally wearing what my dad wore the other day LMAO

  • @renniekirungi6739
    @renniekirungi6739 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I CANT TELL YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE HIM😻😻👺

  • @VennilaAndy
    @VennilaAndy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Me watching Dylan at 14: 😍😍😍
    Me at 23: 😍😍😍😍😍

  • @hannahbecquer8339
    @hannahbecquer8339 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dylan? Dylan mio y de Thomas🛐🛐.

  • @stephaniecamilo6744
    @stephaniecamilo6744 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    💙💙💙💙💙

  • @anaisdgsn
    @anaisdgsn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hey

  • @stephaniecamilo6744
    @stephaniecamilo6744 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    😮😮😮😮😮😮

  • @mollaahy
    @mollaahy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I watched this with my friend who hasnt watched the movie and she said “does that mean he is/was a drug addict” I-

  • @marianasalas30
    @marianasalas30 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Me comprare la silla 😭☝🏻 JAJAJAJAJJAJAJAJAJ espero y algún día el Dylan sepa de mi existencia 👺☝🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @PaolaPerri
    @PaolaPerri 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dylan has awful connection. He is one of us!

  • @DelicateFlower-pp7yl
    @DelicateFlower-pp7yl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Too cute, always surviving. 🤣🤣

  • @mahnoornadeem9706
    @mahnoornadeem9706 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can someone tell me what was the movie about lol ? I did know it was about Cindy , but never explain what happened to Cindy , is she dead or what ? What was with little boy all flashback and what happed to his friends? Why did Fred tell his mom it’s you ? Can someone plz explain to me ?

    • @amycope7970
      @amycope7970 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just copying & pasting my response that I gave to the same question somewhere in the comments above.
      *****
      short version: it’s a movie about choices. About how every moment we make a decision it impacts the way our life turns out. The merc / multiverse is simply a vehicle for the message.
      But really there are lots of different ways to interpret it. Nobody should watch it simply because they like Dylan O’Brien, he is amazing but these existential crisis / alternate reality movies are definitely not for everyone. This is my interpretation of the story explained chronologically for anyone who had no idea what was going on.
      ***
      We meet the adult Fred in one version of reality at the beginning.
      When teenage Fred is totally flipping out on merc in the squat house, he is experiencing all of the different possible lives he could have, but he can’t control it and is basically od’ing. During that trip he travels to our adult Fred’s ‘current’ time. Scar face appears to our Fred in the timeline we’ve started because he is trying to guide him back to that night in the squat with Cindy so that he doesn’t OD. This is why scar face appears right before the first two flashbacks which both have Fred temporarily coming back to that room with Cindy freaking out telling him to come back to her.
      There’s a bunch of other stuff / metaphors / lessons / clues that happen in the middle but for simplicity sake I’ll jump ahead to when the 3 guys go back to the squat house as adults.
      This is when he realises he never left that room as a teen and is actually still on merc, he follows the scar face kid and experiences a ton of different realities / times at once (including the ones we saw at the start when scar face first appeared), he freaks out completely and whacks the kid with the lamp in an effort to make it all stop.
      But he’s still on merc and experiencing these two different realities (the adult and the teen) simultaneously hence the OD scenes in the bathroom.
      Next day he thinks it’s all over but when he freaks out at work / school he realises again that it’s still happening and that he is still simultaneously a teen, an adult, and in that room on merc.
      Then he realises he can change what happens by going back in time and changing his choices (which he can only do because he’s still on merc). So he goes back in time a little, leaves work / steals mums car and heads for the squat house, flicking between both timelines to get back to Cindy and the original night at the squat house.
      Now he understands what’s happening and chooses to explore with Cindy.
      They do this for years, with the beach house / travelling etc whilst in the original teen timeline they are living as bums and hooked on merc, which is what allows them to keep exploring their alternate realities.
      It seems he hasn’t really had a relationship with his mum at all (there are no memories or suggestion of any time with her between teen Fred and 30 year old Fred. Every flash of her face he sees are either young or old, not in between)
      He visits her as a bum and realises the screaming face he sees when he shifts realities is hers. This is when he decides to live a linear timeline and deal with the highs and lows as they come (breaking the necklace and Cindy saying it doesn’t matter because they can just find it again, represents how choices have more meaning when there are consequences and you can’t just jump to another reality). He also doesn’t want his mum to remember him as the bum version.
      So he says goodbye to Cindy and goes back to the time prior to meeting her and consciously chooses the life where he can spend it with Karen and have a relationship with his mum until she dies.
      When I say trip I don’t mean like an acid trip. The alternate realities are real, but he needs to keep taking the merc to be able to move around them.
      That’s my take anyway. I loved it, and I love that different people can take different things from it but it made perfect sense to me (after a couple of views) and every time I watch it I discover more about the story and change my interpretation slightly.

  • @stephaniecamilo6744
    @stephaniecamilo6744 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    😅🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺