BANDERSNATCH – MULTIPLE ENDINGS
Have you ever heard about the movie “bandersnatch”? have you already watch it? How does it feel? Is it frustrating for the first time you watched it? Or did it confuse you? Neither I myself, when I’ve first time watched it, I got confuse to the flow of the movie. It gets more confusing as the movie get farther and farther.
It lets me to rewind overtime when I didn’t comprehend the scenes and acts of character/s in a movie. Because this movie will make you more confuse and confuse as you get farther watching the movie, and also because it has a Repetitive scenes which consisting of various versions from the previous scene/s.
If you watched it without even reading or checking what type of movie it is, What are the previous feedbacks and reviews, and the true intention of the said movie you will end up losing your ground and ended up like me who didn’t really comprehend what’s the meaning behind those repetitive scenes when I first viewed it. So for those who didn’t still watch yet the movie, I’m not promoting or suggesting this movie for you in order to make this famous, because I don’t really care. I just wanted to share my thoughts and gathered feedbacks and reviews from website/s I’ve read.
So, if you ever to watch the movie or re-watch again, I’m recommending to read this article or other’s review and feedbacks of people/websites in order for you to comprehend what’s the true intention of this movie.
The movie was released in December 28, 2018 directed by David Slade together with Fionn Whitehead, Will poulter, Asim chaundhry, Alice lowe and more who are casting the movie. Fionn Whitehead (Stefan) is the main character and main focus of the movie flow. Stefan is a young programmer, he is trying to create a best-selling computer game based from “choose adventure novel “ bandersnatch.
This movie has scripts which will give the command of the viewers (us) to choose and connect it with their personal experiences plays out on their screen. Basically this movie is a realistic nonlinear movie that gives an authority to viewers what scenes and endings they want which will satisfy them, since this movie has a multiple endings that intended to interact with viewers. This is an “interactive movie” which “choose your own endings”.
The length of movie is 2.5 hours, so to finish the movie and be satisfied to the story it will take you equal or more than 90 monutes. Below are the said endings that you will encounter upon watching the movie.
1. Stefan created a terrible game
As I said, Stefan wants to create a best-selling computer game and decided to create an adventure reality game “Bandersnatch”.
He were contracted with an emerging gaming company and he accepted it, Collins the famous computer programmer who did created Tuckersoft (best computer game) is also there and working. After finishing his game it immediately to the public and it got a 0 over 5 star rating because they said that it is terrible. Then the movie were rewind to the beginning and Stefan didn’t accepted the job offer and decided to work on his own. His game became accepted to the general public and got the highest rate. This shows that viewers may choose weather Stefan accept the job offer and fail at the end or don’t accept the job offer and succeed at the end, and this will continue the story..
2. Stefan died before finishing the bandersnatch
There are two major splits of story when his father takes him to the psychiatric and saw collin there, if viewers prefer to follow Collins, he will be offered a drug and if they choose “no” , Collin will spill his drinks anyway. If viewers choose “yes” for Stefan to take the drugs, this will continue the story. Collin shares his theory about parallel realities and how human being controlled by unknown. Then, Collin and Stefan went to the balcony, Collin asked if who will jump down, if viewers “yes” to Stefan, he will jump and die before finishing the bandersnatch and get the rating of 0 star with terrible feedbacks.
If viewers choose to say “yes” to Collin, then it will be his cause of death and the story goes on. Or viewers didn’t opt to follow Collins at the first choice points it will likely to come up as an option to the later experience.
3. Collin’s ending
If viewers really do choose “yes” to Collin to jump up from the balcony, a year later his daughter discovered her father’s job and the bandersnatch which will lead her to research and make a movie about it, but she had troubling doing it and ended up she threw tea to the computer. Then Stefan is in a screen again, because the company wanted to launch his games until Christmas season, he became stress because of pleasure of time and due date, then Stefan go mad and kill his father.
Viewers were given an option weather Stefan bury the body or chop it. For those who choose to chop the body, the ending is bandernatch became the famous games of all time and met its success also its creator, Stefan.
4. Netflex ending and wall breaks
Netflix has also included in bandersnatch, when Stefan ask for the sign if who controls him and why did they’re doing it. Viewers has an option to speak to him, either tell him that he’s being controlled by 21stcentury online entertainment TV(Netflix) or sends a brick wall (branching narrative glyph)that he’s suspected he’s being controlled by something.
So, he came back to the psychiatrist and utter that he is being controlled from the future. then has given an option again with fighting scene, if he will fight back to the psychiatrist or jump to the window. If viewers choose Stefan jump to the window, Stefan will jump to the 4 brick wall and one peculiar thing if he ever do this, the director will cut the scene revealing the set and explain to Stefan that he’s name is mike and jumping from the window isn’t from script.
5. Stefan brings down tuckersoft
For those who choose for Stefan to bury his father’s coarpse, he will be convicted and bring down the company and the tuckersoft which is the best-selling game created by Collin. The body will be discover neither kitty (Collins wife) nor Collin, also the neighboring dog digs up the body. But if viewers choose not to kill father at all, the game is over.
6. Government conspiracy ending
Stefan awakens in the middle of the night, and decided to inter his father’s room. He attempted to unlock his father’s protective safe by entering the passcode “pacx” but it’s incorrect, and choose the word “PAC” means Program and conspiracy and unlocked it.
He discovered from the files inside the safe that he’s being controlled by his father in his entire life and using him in an experiment to treat traumatic disorder while relative are falsely there. In this scene, viewers didn’t choose for the father to be killed but it’s Stefan, and viewers can help him up by figuring up what’s the phone number of psychiatrist.
7. Stefan dies with his mother in a train
The reason why Stefan has a traumatic disorder, because his mother died at the train when his still young. He was about to come with his mother and ride the train, but he didn’t get along because it took him too long to find his bunny stuff, and he thinks that this is all his fault why he’s mother died. So, in a present day..Stefan died but before that he takes a trip back from his childhood where his mother is still alive and it’s about to leave. He immediately found his bunny stuff and come along with his mother and ride the train, then he died.
This endings are the bases to get the main points of the movie, which directs you to fully view the big picture. It has multiple endings and in jumble forms which compared to other movie even you talk to your family or friend you can still get the whole point/s but bandersnatch obliges you to pay attention and focus to the transition of every scenes of the movie.
Source; Holywood reporter