By: Debra Barber

Debra Barber — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:59:33 +0000

Just found and love this site. Haven’t watched the movie for years but it certainly has been on mind often. I remember thinking yes Isla was Wills mom. I’m going to look up The one that I love.

By: Jose

Jose — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 09:48:45 +0000

Hahaha… Will’s mom (that brief shot of her coming down the stairs) is actually played by Wendy Makkena. The director clearly left the film open to different interpretations — Love your website, by the way, I’ve just started exploring it!

By: Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 18:38:59 +0000

Wooooah there Jose… derisive much?

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 16:52:41 +0000

Yes, Isla is Will’s mom. Actually, if you pay attention, the woman in the photo Will gives to his dad, the woman coming down the stairs in Thomas’ dream, and Isla are all the same person.

By: Rex

Rex — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 10:16:44 +0000

I made the same conclusion as Jayne. In the end Will is in fact rescuing himself from drowning (at the age of 5) and indirectly also his own mom (Isla) from committing suicide later in life. Makes sense to me. And to Boogers; Will and Isla making out never actually progressed further than early attempts. Maybe the real reason for this was their real relationship.

By: Boogers

Boogers — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 06:18:32 +0000

You know they made out a bunch right? I highly doubt your theory

By: Jayne

Jayne — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 08:26:32 +0000

Your looking at it too hard. Wills mom drowned in water (tub), Islam tries drowning (in ocean ). Will was 5 when he died. Islas son is 5. Islam is wills mom. The loop is loss

By: Phil Guy

Phil Guy — Sun, 28 May 2017 23:33:08 +0000

To understand the ending, It is key to remember an earlier scene in the movie where Will states something along the lines of “During a near death experience or the inbetween phase we create a dream to justify this empty space. Bringing meaning into something that is meaningless”. Basically my own personal view of the film’s ending is that Will’s “inbetween” or “near death” moment is whilst he is laid on the bed plugged into the machine and he creates a meaningful dream to justify what he is experiencing during the early stages of death, this is the conversation with Isla on the ferry, where she states that he keeps returning to save her. This conversation is simply an illusion created by Will’s own subconcious mind to give him justification of what is happening to him and what his purpose is in life. However it is all predicated by what he has already consciously learnt in his former reality and then threaded together by his subconcious mind from memory. For example he learns that memory can be relived and amended after death (corpse video and his fathers video) so that forms part of the context of the conversation with Isla about constantly returning to save her. Without that learning in his most recent life he wouldn’t be able to create that particular scenario. Remember in this conversation he tells himself through Islas voice that his mission is to “save people and that can be done in more ways than one and to multiple people and that he hopes he remembers Isla when he moves on”. He basically there and then creates a title and set of rules right that the succeeding life must adhere to (this is most likely always present in our sub conscious minds prior to death but only overtly evident when faced with near certain ending of life as we know it, that forces our conscious and subconcious minds to become one clear voice), the life purpose only to be amended at the end of that timeline during the next “inbetween” justification stage during death. This is then illustrated perfectly when moving onto Will’s death scene, when he saves Islas son from drowning. This is as mentioned above a creation of a new life from his own subconscious mind abiding by the preset rules of “saving someone” and “remembering Isla”, crafted perfectly by using memories from a previous life. His mind applies the memory about the conversation regarding Isla’s sons tragic death, his own near death experience as a young boy and being at the deserted beach which he always returns to. Building the perfect believable narrative for him to consciously observe and experience and in the process allow his higher self to achieve the preset purpose/outcome to “save someone”. Will shall continue to create these dreams, life loops or timelines infinitely following the accumulation of new memories observed from each timeline most likely with a new purpose each time. The best analogy to this is when we each go to sleep and dream a very detailed story but we are completely unaware at the time that we are dreaming and only on a few occasions “lucid dreaming” will we get a mere flicker of awareness. Only when we awake do we rationalise and realise that it wasn’t actually reality, yet we uncontrollably succumb to exactly the same process the following night as soon as our eyes close and we slip out of conscious awareness. Just like during the “inbetween phase” When we awake we can briefly justify and post rationalise how the dream was created from recent memories or daily experiences but this perception quickly fades again. The amazing thing is our minds achieve this illusion so frequently in absolute detail and every dream is always slightly different, pointing towards the theory of an infinite number of created narratives, which is exactly what Will is experiencing when he arrives on the ferry at the start and on the beach at the end, it may be in a house next time or in a car but until he changes his predisposed life purpose during the in-between justification phase then each life will be rebuilt using his memories and experiences from previous lives to create a similar but slightly different narrative of saving someone with just flickers of awareness. Why? Because we can’t actively disengage our conscious minds, to access this higher plane of existence and tap into our full historic timeline, hence why in the final scene Will has the look of enlightenment but confusion etched on his face as he tries to recall the memory of Isla. My own personal view of life after death is very similar to the film in that I believe prior to death we review the life we have led and attempt to give meaning to it almost trying to appraise what we have experienced and question what it was all about before again asking another question and following that path, just like we do when we wake up from a perculiar dream, rapidly trying to remember the details of it and type into google what it means as we struggle to hold on to the details as they fade away into the abyss, never to be seen again unless reminded by dejavu which may trigger brief details of the memory just like the final scene when Will seemingly questions in his own mind whether he knows Isla once again just like he did verbally on the ferry. The dream analogy is simple because every day we observe and gather more data and follow the same process, falling asleep, entering another plane of existence (dreamspace) experiencing a prebuilt story before awaking again and trying to remember what happened. To me this is exactly the same as my view on life after death. Put simply our conscious minds or souls are constantly creating new stories using all the data of our previous experiences and proactively creating new narratives before we can observe and make sense of them. We then return to live each story again from the start with a slightly amended path, which is adjusted through the slightly different experiences we observe during each life phase along with an amended end goal. Our higher self or subconscious mind with knowledge of these previous lives give us small nudges along the way to guide us to a different outcome using “gut feeling” or “instinct”. In effect all we are doing is creating an infinite number of outcomes with an infinite number of narratives, based solely on our accumulated memories which have been developing in our subconcious since the formation of consciousness itself and they will continue to evolve until consciousness stops, at which point the universe will no longer exist. Basically I believe that for every life we live, we record a massive amount of data, that can then be tweaked, blended and restructured into new narrative before being played back and observed and this happens continuously, life after life. Each new experience presents an opportunity to create a new piece of narrative even if it is ludicrously constructed, just like how certain characters and people appear in our dreams doing things you would never expect them to be doing. Our subconscious (or soul) never stops living and as a result our lives never stop evolving. The crazy thing is that I believe all of this narrative is created and completed from start to finish by our higher self well in advance of us actually observing and experiencing the very first clip. Just like how we perceive a dream when we awake and realise we are laid in bed, and that we never truly experienced anything at all, we were simply watching a detailed recording from a film and whilst experiencing the movie we simply enjoyed it, only to then attempt to question and justify it to ourselves once it has finished…sound familiar?

By: CC

CC — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:35:44 +0000

Could it be that Will need to save Isla from killing herself, because if you kill yourself you don’t get another chance to go back and change your greatest regret. That’s why Isla said there is more than one way to save someone.

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