#remainder 2015

[thevelvetgoldmine]

Tom Sturridge and Arsher Ali in REMAINDER (2015)

[sturridges]

tom sturridge filmography

Tom in REMAINDER (2015) dir. Omer Fast

[yourchocolatenachostudent]

Can we just pretend for a second that it's Hob and Dream?

Please?

[lenreli]

[emiliosandozsequence]

remainder (2015) dir. omer fast

[laurelwen]

Guess which Tom Sturridge film each of these Letterboxd reviews is about.

Part 5 / 6: Mishmash and Bonus: Facial Hair Part 4 / 6: Life Changing, I Guess? Part 3 / 6: Serving Cunt Part 2 / 6: Delicious Damage Part 1 / 6: "What Have I Done?"

[questing-wulfstan]

So, I watched Remainder (2015), because I'm a simple gal who enjoys watching Tom Sturridge play various shades of unhinged gremlin on my screen and, I have my own theory :

I don't think the black out at the end is the fuse to a new loop and that it starts all over again. I think the black out is Tom's death. That Tom's been dying the whole time.

At the beginning, he's declared clinically dead, and I don't think he recovers actually. Rather, the movie is a 1 hour and 43 minutes-long stretch of the few seconds between the accident and Tom's actual death, throughout which his 'life flashes before his eyes', as the established expression go. Except part of his brain is already destroyed from the squashing, and the memories stored in it are erased, and Tom has to do with what is left for his 'life review'.

Except he does not, he's terrified of death (as human beings usually are), and he takes refuge in this ultimate surge of brain activity, lets it delude him that it is, in fact, reality. Thus, it makes no sense to him that parts of his memories are missing, and he fixates on these and endeavours to recover them, like he ought to be able to do since his brain is intact and he believes himself to have already gone through the process of, and succeeded in recovering his motive functions.

And stubborn, sort of patient, repeat has been the method to recover his motive functions, it ought to be for his memories as well.

He 'fixes' his life ー or, his memories of it ー as he goes too. I don't think he was running away from the bank robbery when he's squashed at the very beginning. The first and last scene of the movie are nearly identical, except for one detail : in the first scene, when he looks back to Catherine, she smiles and goes down the stairs towards him. She does not in the last scene.

I'm not sure what exactly was happening before the accident, but it's reasonable to infer from the informations provided throughout the movie that he found out Catherine was 'a real cunt', to quote Greg, packed his things and stormed out. That is why she's so hopeful when he turns and look at her in the first scene.

Except that is a failure, and not something Tom's unconscious want to replay last before his death, nor something he wants to go through ー again ー at all. So he reaches for something else, and grasps the memory of the news of Christopher's death. I don't think he was actually close to Christopher, but his death is 'glorious' to Tom, much more so than his own. And this might not be his own life, but if he can piece motive functions, and memories back from oblivion, surely with enough practice he can make someone else's memory his. So when he reaches the end of his life's tape, Catherine doesn't go down the stairs hopefully towards him because now he's the one who hurt her, he's dangerous, and she fears him, fears what he's capable of. The other way around than what actually happened. And much better.

Plus now, he's turned the flashing of his life before his eyes as death creeps on him into a whole other thing. Respite. Reprieve. A second chance. And surely more chances will be granted to him. Now he's in a time loop that will resume 'until the universe runs down'. Now he's endless.

Except he's not.

[theoryofwhatnow]

random text posts for tom sturridge films.

[thelastdayalive]

II. Tom Sturridge all bruised & bloodied in Remainder (2015)

[matkatkitkat]

holy wow. that movie. was better than i was expecting (not that i was expecting it to be bad, tom sturridge is there, how bad can it be?)

[thevelvetgoldmine]

TOM STURRIDGE in "Remainder" (2015) dir. Omer Fast

[snitling]

Soooo... Having seen THAT kiss scene and the end of the film Remainder (2015), what happened to that cute personal assistant type guy? He just ran away? After a kiss like that?

[lenreli]

[lancialote]

Minds are versatile and wily things. Real chancers.

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[laurelwen]

[currentlyonstandbi]

the narrator in Remainder by Tom McCarthy somehow being even weirder than in the 2015 film adaptation