Google Analytics informs me that Mystics in Bali(!), Cría Cuervos, Enter the Void and Incendies are the most frequently searched titles by which singles of people throughout the world find their way here. Though I don't think I answer, in their original entries, the questions implied by the search terms, and because I too am often disappointed by a lack of answers from the sites I visit for answers I'd like to offer the following two points:
Incendies Ending The rapist/torturer in the prison in which the mother was held as a political prisoner was her first son (which her other two children were searching for). So the son was raping the mother. The son/rapist is also the little boy at the beginning of the movie when the first Radiohead song (which, alas, I don't know the title of - another frequent search) plays. The mother identifies the son/rapist by his tattoo. That's why the two letters are delivered to him, one as a mother, and one as a victim. This also makes the father of the second and third children the first son, or in other words the man is their father and brother. I bet you actually knew this but didn't want to believe it.
Twin towers in Enter the Void During the Love Hotel sequence, as Oscar's spirit/the camera travels through the rooms of love makers, there is a moment that's either a flashback or a flashforward. The moment intercuts Linda and Alex's lovemaking (Linda also morphs into Oscar's mother [as Victor's mother did in the previous scene]). Like the final moment this intercut is out of focus (Noé has confirmed the woman in the birth scene is Oscar's mother): a man and woman couple, on a bed, hold a baby while a young girl in a yellow dress plays with a stuffed bear. The camera floats out the window and there's a skyline, and in the skyline is apparently the twin towers. I'm not a NYC skyline expert, but I think, like singles of Internet searchers across the world, that two buildings in the skyline are the twin towers. It's a confusing scene because the young girl is in a yellow dress, as Linda (young and old) often is in Enter the Void, and she has the bear Linda often has, but if it's Linda in the dress it can't be Linda on the bed with the baby, and also if it's Linda in the dress it can't be Oscar as a baby since Oscar is the older brother. The man appears to have long hair like Alex, and due to the content of the scene it intercuts (including the ejaculation, naturally) you would think it's Alex and Linda holding their second baby with their firstborn daughter playing with the bear and wearing the dress, perhaps a dream of the future Oscar has. But if those are the twin towers how can that be, since the towers were destroyed on September 11 2001?
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