On the supposed “happy” ending that one Dean with the flowers and candy has: rest assured, he’ll screw that up somehow. The Dean we followed only needed to stay at the beach with that Lana. That ending would have been like the Hector we see with his wife at the end of Timecrimes. But Dean is obsessive and controlling to the point that he could not resist reacting to that phone call. This obsessive desire to control is demonstrated at its most extreme when he unnecessarily repeats the known conversation with himself through Lana with the earpiece. Such a great moment to let us know Dean is just going to get it all wrong, regardless of how many ways happenstance sends a Lana back his way.

I actually started an infographic detailing out the ins and outs of this movie… but there are so many moves, and it gets so complicated… gah. Maybe I’ll crack it some day. Going to keep playing with it.