Hey there Lera!
So glad you found this OA respite – this enclave of hope of return. Brit, Zal, & Ruby have to find a way to bring about season 3 to life. Book form? Video game? Play? I’d take it in any form they were able to license… hell, Netflix would get a cut and wouldn’t have to put up nearly the same amount up front! Then when the books fly off the shelf for season 1-5, then they’d realize that they need to greenlight the show again!

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Not to mention the Dupe Jeanette as a seeming live-in girlfriend for audrey at the end, this family is f****d up, even at a scratch under the surface. Even the boy has broken someones arm and doesnt seem at all bothered except for his personal repurcussions.

I mean I loved it, and though the western end would be downbeat planet of the apes type stuff, this ending is downright diabolical!

I just looked a the image you so kindly provided in the Q&A. Just what I was wishing for! Thanks for taking the time to create that image.

As blurry as it is, the shape of his “project” does *not* look like a brain to me. You would see some indications of convolutions I would think. Also, it is too big for a human brain. To me it looks exactly what I would expect it to be if he was creating a human skull or a complete head. Look at the very round bulbous shape of the top….exactly like a skull IMHO.

Yeah, it’s hard to determine exactly what that guy in the back is doing. I decided to do a little research to help figure out whether or not this setting is likely a morgue. What I found seems to me to make it highly *unlikely* that this is a morgue or even a funeral parlor.

First, the “slab” the body is on. I researched how morgues kept bodies cool in the late 1800s. Since they had no refrigeration back then, it was typically done with ice. Here’s a big giveaway…..they placed bodies on what they called “cooling tables”. These sturdy structures had a surface made of either wicker or wooden slates to allow the coolness of the ice below to filter up to the body; these tables also had drainage systems to allow fluids to drain away. Look at the “tables” in the shot; they aren’t anything like that.

Next, in those days one rarely displayed a body in a mortuary type place, but rather it was done in a family home. Those cooling tables were hinged such that they could be folded up to moved from location to location. Again, nothing like that in the shot. (Look at the 2 or 3 “spare” tables…..more likely for a wax figure than a dead body.)

I also inquired about the clothes morgue workers would be wearing. There were 2 types: the back room worker, and the front room worker. The backroom guys prepared the body, and they got dirty, so they typically wore rubber aprons. The front room guys interacted with the families etc. The culture at the time took the death and display of the body very seriously, and these front room guys always wore “Sunday Best” type black clothes of a very conservative style. Again, not in this scene.

Next, the sleeve protectors you see on being worn by the guy in the scene were used by accountants, clerks, and craftsmen……ABSOLUTELY not by somebody showing a body for identification.

Lastly, note the steam radiators along the wall. No morgue would install a heating system.

One could say that Nolan is just being lazy in the design of this set, and of the extras in playing in the set, but Nolan is known to be a stickler for detail. NO……this is NOT morgue!!

I want it to be a guy building a replica – but it kinda looks like a brain zoomed in? The image is now in my Q&A section of my post if you want to see for yourself.

woah woah woah woah…
it’s pretty rare that someone’s comment on this (holiest of holy) blog post forces me to stop what I’m doing (pretty rude of you Sandy McKean) and makes me go spin this movie up again… which I’m doing right now. In slow motion. HOLD PLEASE!!!

Alright, I’ve watched that 5 second scene, and that is really fascinating. So fascinating, I think I’m going to include a zoomed in screen shot of what is happening in the background within my post to see if anyone has any ideas what is happening here. Wild!