Good call on the ending. I agree completely that it took the movie from the A+ range to a B+. But I was pleased with the direction and I’m looking forward to his Bladder Runner inspired future film. The success of Source should set him up nicely.

Hi pianocomposer, yes, I do think it’s a matter of taste.

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Two things to your comments, though: I think ending it the way they did actually creates more plot holes and logic issues than ending it my way–I mean, in your reality what happened to Sean Fenris, whose body he now lives in? And what happens if they use the other captain stevens in a source code…is it really a different soul or does stevens-in-sean risk getting pulled out of his new reality?

second, i don’t think that my ending would be depressing. bittersweet, perhaps, but to me a beautiful sense of closure. there was a point in the movie when i realized that he was dead, and still believed the source code was only a memory, and found it profoundly haunting that they were falling in love despite never knowing each other…echoes of “Voices of a Distant Star” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” for me. The thought of someone knowing that he couldn’t really save the girl, or those people, but wanting to do it anyway simply for his own peace of mind, to have his own satisfaction and closure…to have that perfect moment be your last moment of awarenes…how is that depressing? it’s beautiful.

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but perhaps we simply have to agree to disagree.

thanks for stopping by–definitely glad to see this director making new fans.