> From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg> > Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 09:02:37 -0700 (PDT) > > https://slate.com/culture/2018/06/first-reformeds-ending-paul-schrader-explains-why-its-designed-to-be-ambiguous.html Well, did the Amanda Seyfried character really go to the church and did the Ethan Hawke character really take off his suicide vest? I mean, at what point should any part of a film be considered "real" or not? The writer/director must have loved https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Ladder_(1990_film) since you don't find out until the very end of the film that the entire film sequence was just a dream before he died in an army hospital.