That's really what confounds me, is that the movie seems to be pretty clearly saying this is an up, hopeful ending that will allow the humans to flourish unconstrained by the train. So it confuses me that the movie seems to go out of its way to make the exit catastrophic.
I suppose, going by the ark metaphor, the idea is that we need to see the train is well and truly destroyed - that it has beached, or landed, and the future is definitively outside the train, which has completed its journey. I guess I'll just have to fanon that the miraculous train also has a miraculous passenger safety system that would allow for unsuspecting people without anything resembling seatbelts to survive a tumbling fall into a ravine. And unsuspecting fish.
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That's really what confounds me, is that the movie seems to be pretty clearly saying this is an up, hopeful ending that will allow the humans to flourish unconstrained by the train. So it confuses me that the movie seems to go out of its way to make the exit catastrophic.
I suppose, going by the ark metaphor, the idea is that we need to see the train is well and truly destroyed - that it has beached, or landed, and the future is definitively outside the train, which has completed its journey. I guess I'll just have to fanon that the miraculous train also has a miraculous passenger safety system that would allow for unsuspecting people without anything resembling seatbelts to survive a tumbling fall into a ravine. And unsuspecting fish.