SPOILERS THROUGHOUT REVIEW.
This is one of my all time favorite movies. I saw if for the first time when I was about 10 years old and have since then began to fully understand the ending of this movie. I think that their are a few possibilities for the ending, the first being that Mike, created Bobby, as an imaginary friend. I don't think that this is right because I think that there would have been bigger clues..and that it would have been more obvious. The Second, is that Bobby died and the story is how Mike coped with his death. If you listen closely at the beginning Hanks says, "History is all in the mind of the teller, truth is all in the telling," meaning that the truth is revealed in how the story is told..not what is being told. Then before that he talks about why a promise is so important and about the weight it carries...he's talking about the promise he made to his brother. I believe that the younger brother was killed and that creating this escape was the way that he came to terms with his brothers death.
This is one of my all time favorite movies. I saw if for the first time when I was about 10 years old and have since then began to fully understand the ending of this movie. I think that their are a few possibilities for the ending, the first being that Mike, created Bobby, as an imaginary friend. I don't think that this is right because I think that there would have been bigger clues..and that it would have been more obvious. The Second, is that Bobby died and the story is how Mike coped with his death. If you listen closely at the beginning Hanks says, "History is all in the mind of the teller, truth is all in the telling," meaning that the truth is revealed in how the story is told..not what is being told. Then before that he talks about why a promise is so important and about the weight it carries...he's talking about the promise he made to his brother. I believe that the younger brother was killed and that creating this escape was the way that he came to terms with his brothers death.