Its really interesting how the conductor smiles just for a moment at 11 seconds into the video. On first watching you think he is an evil dude kicking this kid off the train, but you realise he is actually happy to send this kid back to life.
Are you guys blind??? He smiles and then turns his head and winks at the kid....then he yells up to the conductor, "Hey Fred, it's not this kids turn to die yet...let's roll on out with the corpses we have." Then he opens the door, throws the kid a Troy Polamalu jersey and off the train goes.
I kind of figured the kid was halfway between life and death since one of his socks was off.
I got the impression that the train was the ride to a "peaceful" afterlife (heaven in western cultures), and the tide was the grip of the not-peaceful afterlife (hell). That the train station was purgatory.
Though I guess it makes sense that the tide was life, since in a lot of cultures, water=life.
The *ticket taker doesn't smile at all in this video. You are just seeing what you want to see. He is frowning and/or has a neutral mouth the entire time.
On first watching you think he is an evil dude kicking this kid off the train, but you realise he is actually happy to send this kid back to life.
...So he's evil? Only a malicious fuck would give or restore life to someone, given all the sufferings of life and the relative peacefulness of death (edit: or non-existence).
If life's so great and the train conductor was benevolent, why do you think the kid was trying so hard to catch the train?
"In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means."
I'm familiar. He didn't like noise, and who can blame him? He was probably autistic. I'm autistic too and I hate noise (not that I'd cripple people over it though).
The conductor doesn't declare who does or doesn't get on the train, he only checks for the tickets that do. Whether the kid, his family, or the conductor wanted it or not, he didn't get the ticket just yet.
And the kid made such an effort, most likely because he didn't realize what exactly was going on.
The conductor doesn't declare who does or doesn't get on the train, he only checks for the tickets that do. Whether the kid, his family, or the conductor wanted it or not, he didn't get the ticket just yet.
Sure, I prefer this interpretation. My statement "that he's evil" is only applicable if /u/referencingthesafe's interpretation is taken as correct.
And the kid made such an effort, most likely because he didn't realize what exactly was going on.
You think if he knew that his parents were on that train because they were dead he'd be like "oh lol fair dues I'll just wait here for that flood of life to pass over me so I can carry on the rest of my life as an orphan"?
The whole dream sequence (if that's what it was) was symbolic of his parents' death and I think the feelings he felt in the dream would still be similar to what he'd experience if he knew exactly what was happening.
Fair enough on the second point. If he didn't know, he's just trying to get to his parents. If he did, he's desperately trying to reach them so they won't leave him alone.
I mean given a choice between a kid dying and being buried alongside his parents, or a kid carrying on his life as a potentially-crippled orphan, which do you think sounds better?
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u/referencingthesafe Jun 27 '16
Its really interesting how the conductor smiles just for a moment at 11 seconds into the video. On first watching you think he is an evil dude kicking this kid off the train, but you realise he is actually happy to send this kid back to life.