Like Minds 10

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[DuchessAliana]

So in taking Susan's head, which is the symbol of the great power Nigel spoke of, Alex became the new Nigel. Susan's and Nigel's deaths gave "birth" to a new link in the Order (symbolically represented by the fact that the head was placed beneath the womb). Alex took the head, and now since he carries the "power" of the Order, he's going to continue what Nigel started by making the boy on the train his "partner." Although it begs the question, was ALEX really the mastermind?

thx 4 posting

[oraora33]

i watched the whole damn thing and they didnt even kiss pfft

[lucylu21ful]

i dont completely understand the gestalt thing, but this movie was beautiful. and disturbing and confusing, but really well done. gunna go watch it again and see if i can make sense of what the hell happend...

[SHEILATIC]

"We will be united." Is this what Nigel said in 01:23~01:24?

[richardtheteague]

Alex didn't kill Nigel. That much is clear, so it's not as simple as 'he's the mastermind'. The crux of the issue here is why Nigel killed himself at all. Hosts of reasons proliferate, all of which complement the story, as I've said below. But counter-evidence comes in the form of what Nigel says just after he embalms his parents. So, if anyone can make these apparently inconsistent bits of information mesh together in any way, please reply to this and let me know. It's really quite perplexing.

[richardtheteague]

Signs of the merge had already manifested before Nigel's suicide though, after all Alex DID have his way with Susan's corpse and can we really attribute this to mere vulgar libido rather than Nigel's influence? Besides, Nigel dubs himself the Jack's pike, 'an implement for killing'. And indeed he does kill Susan because she is to be a source of power to Alex in the future; a source of power to ALEX not to Nigel. His doing this at all already seems to suggest that a unification is on the way.

[richardtheteague]

Obviously this worked, because we see Alex updating Nigel's 'bible' and carrying the skull-box; his beliefs concerning everything Nigel had told him finally blossoming. The whole reason that Alex 'believes' in Gestalt, is because he realizes that this is what has happened with himself and Nigel; the two have become a whole, greater than the mere sum of their parts. His mind has been completely dominated by Nigel's. That's why he thinks he's 'watching, listening' to him in the prison cell.

[richardtheteague]

The obvious conclusion we're supposed to draw is that, bizarrely, Alex had become so like Nigel that all that was stopping their being 'united' (as in, 'made one') was that there were still literally two of them. So, it would seem that Nigel's killing himself was an effort on his part to breach the final gap between them. He and Alex had become so successfully twinned, he had influenced Alex so much that maybe he felt that killing himself was the only way to push Alex that one step further.