Bigfoot symbolises his inner demon, his trauma, his regret. The way I interpreted it when he retrieved the box from his grave, was that he had finally come to terms with losing the love of his life, or at the very least was now willing to cherish the happy memories which were contained in the box. Here is a man who saved the world twice, yet he has nothing to show for it but his own melancholy and regret for life squandered. The FBI Agent and the Canadian represent the career government, they know everything about the old soldier, they even own his blood. WORSE, Hitler was just one in a line of replaceable figureheads that were just the inculcation of some mindless cult of personality of a personless cult. – far too easy to access Hitler – three meathead thugs expecting no trouble fooled by a real veteran (arguable He was blind sided by the attack and it was very costly to him. And it would seem that Barr is dying. A modern full-auto HK or whatever assault rifle was front and center for Calvin to ignore) The brother puts out the story that Calvin never returned from vacation, so as not to reveal the secret nature of what he was doing when he died. From the Fuhrer to Bigfoot. Our hero, Calvin Barr (the impossibly grizzled Sam Elliott), is the kind of old timer you see sitting alone at the end of the bar. The box probably contained stuff from his girlfriend, maybe her ashes or the ring he wanted to give her or the letters he didn’t really throw away. When the good guys were all helping, the bad guy came out and shot the good guys. But ultimately, it feels as if Barr is just longing to live. I watched this film a bit ago and I think it’s about regret. Any true fan of Bill Watterson's comic strip would do well to stay away from this rip-off piece of trash. Alternatively, you’re so right about what is happening on screen is NOT what it is. I don’t think we’ll know how to interpret the film unless the writer tells us what he meant. Only problem? Or something. That moment will never come back. IE didn’t happen? The man, Calvin Barr (Sam Elliott) kills Hitler and then the Bigfoot. The True Story of John Calvin and the Reformation quantity Add to cart SKU: 9781-84550-5608 Categories: Little Lights Series , For Your Little Ones , Biographies , Christian Books for Children Tags: john calvin , great reformation , catherine mackenzie , reformers I’ve always liked Sam Elliott’s style of acting! Also, I believe ( and I’m totally on a limb here) that the meaning of the box is where the gun that killed Hitler is stored, and so he says daily, “not today”. The movie centers around the exploits of a man called Calvin Barr, played as an old man during the 1980s by Sam Elliot, and as a young man by Aidan Turner, aka the ridiculously good-looking dwarf from The Hobbit movies. After hearing the true story of the demise of Valance and of Stoddard missing him entirely in their famous gunfight, Maxwell Scott rips up the account and says, “This is the West, sir. It just seems to me, that for most of the guesses above, if they were actually what the movie was going for, then it was done poorly. I think, for the most part, the theories are pretty much covered here! Longing for one last adventure. Set in 1987, the story is about Calvin Barr (Sam Elliott), an old man living his last days in his quiet hometown with his dog. I am 34 years old. I have followed your IG for quite some time. He was hired by Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 1964 and at age 26 became one of the youngest Captains operating a Boeing 707. This movie? Nobody Movie Recommendation Because YEAH! I took it to mean that he went to war, and regrets the loss of his love (obviously). A remembrance (whether real or imagined) of things past. He could have written to her, but he didn’t and it was his fault she left . Now I wish I’d watched it more analytically. It felt like a great hypothetical question: what if you do everything right (even kill Hitler and prevent the spread of a pandemic) and life still shits on you. When he returns, he goes and digs up that box. Hitler himself. – rubber bigfoot suit (who knows what bigfoot really looks like?) What is more interesting is what falls into the gaps in between. I could sort this flick out in a heartbeat. The Based on a True Story podcast is/was one venue to share myself and process pain in my life. A few points: * Ed is a barber … where stories are told and feelings exposed. – comic book FBI stereotype with comic book mention (flag pin and all) Ed is telling the story of his – larger than life – big brother. That’s what the rock in his shoe represented. And if so, was digging up the grave for the box, fantasy or reality? Also, imagining Hitler to be a replaceable figurehead that made little difference to the grand scheme of things, would also help in the suspension of disbelief. ... Four times I thought I found “the one”, my true love, my soul mate. He went into the woods and got injured – purposely stayed away – subsequently thought to be dead. It was alluded to that she wound up dying very young so I think she was gone by the time he got home from the war. The stone in his shoe represents the painful nagging regrets that he had spent years enduring, and extracting it meant that he had finally reached a satisfactory state of contentment. There were so many allusions that I didn’t grasp. [4] In the UK, it played at FrightFest London on August 26, 2018,[5] in Spain at the Sitges Film Festival[6] and in Finland at the Night Visions Film Festival.[7]. The US agent had heard about Barr’s exploits during the war from his grandfather. I think leaving the viewer in a confused state is intentional as this must be what it was like for millions of people during and following World War 2 leaving their happy lives for years at a time and their family and loved ones who’s lives were destroyed when their loved ones did not return home and trying to fix the soldiers that did return. Killing Bigfoot may have been easier to justify (stopping the spread of contagion) though he certainly didn’t want to do it. We are all conditioned to believe that if we accomplish monumental tasks, become pillars of the community or acquire enormous wealth, our lives will be forever rosy and complete. I read from some unfavourable reviews that the movie was one big Dadaist joke, or a plodding mashup about nothing, possibly true, but I’d like to be more generous and call it a rumination on American Stoicism, with which Sam Elliot played to a perfection, I think. His mission to kill Hitler was really more of a plot line that led to his speech he gives to the FBI agent and the Canadian. Heck, the entirety of the Quiet Place movie screenplay was half the length of this movie title. As Barr goes about his day-to-day routine, which includes visiting his brother Ed (Larry Miller) in his barbershop, he fights of… Discrete reality details are actually possible: Karen Jean Barr, 78, of Camp Verde, Arizona, passed away in the comfort of her home on May 6, 2019. Quick Spoiler Filled Walkthrough Alright – the film features one Calvin Barr (played by Sam Elliott), an elderly gentleman who is starting to wind down the clock on his life. So many different interpretations. Time passes and Ed goes fishing with Barr's dog. I’ve only mulled over the movie for an hour or so, so tomorrow I may have a different interpretation than now, but here’s my present interpretation. He tries to fit in with the public, goes fishing. Was this a dream and not a memory and a comment of his feelings of war that winning doesn’t always mean you are right or losing that you are wrong that it is a matter of making distasteful choices (bombing Japan) and those decisions are far beyond the common soldier killing and being killed. Seemed like that came up a lot, in a number of different ways. So yeah, the actual details of this film aren’t really the thing that is happening here. But today is different. Nope. Liked it? He attempted two different times to get access to the Fuhrer, and manages to succeed on the second attempt. * When Calvin and Maxine are on a date and guys run into his table … Calvin is very meek. He killed a man who “had it coming” but ultimately the ideas behind the man lived on and all he did was take a life for which he could not forgive himself. * The night before Calvin leaves for duty Maxine tells a story one of her students has written, where the boys are playing army – good guys and bad guys – the student was a good guy that fell out of a tree and cut his forehead. Your story about Calvin has touched me deeply. I think Calvin has died and Ed misses their talks. is that I scour the interwebs, and look hither and yon for crazy-strange, and hard to understand movies. The remainder of the story is about the regrets in his life. The thing in the box is the same thing that Tarantino put in his Pulp Fiction briefcase. Perhaps this even explains the (rather stupid) title: “the man who killed Hitler and then the bigfoot” is “the man who did something terribly and then came to terms with it”, Hope this makes sense and was worth the long read ^^ there’s still a lot i have’t figured out yet and i’m not to sure about what if just written either… It hits a nerve somehow, but not clearly. Two Calvin Barr’s, to be exact. Don’t know about you guys, but this somehow reminds me of Big Fish and Birdman, where the line between reality and fantasy is oh so blurred by movie’s end. Right? I think the wooden box represents something related to embracing life again, an adventure he has never had the guts to pursue. The idea lived on.” In reality, he shot a soldier (or more than one) in the war and tried to justify his actions by telling himself “i didn’t just kill a man. Bigfoot then wounds Calvin near his ear, where the russian cut him, when he said: “your mission will be successful, but you will be cursed.” i haven’t really figured out that part yet. In the film, Elliott plays Calvin Barr, a seemingly hapless former war hero in what seems to be the late 1970s or early 1980s. Anyway, just for comparison’s sake, the number 1 most commented post on the site is The Prestige with 441 comments, the 2nd is Memento with 225, Then The Lobster with 220, The One I Love comes in at 218, and finally in the fifth slot is Personal Shopper with 208.). After the high and low of the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2004, they canceled the season in 2004-2005. I, too, went into this movie expecting it be something of a lark (based on the title alone). I accept the events as real. Not saying this is right, but the end of the bar scene keeps nagging at my brain where he tells the bartender that he is going to stop drinking tomorrow, and repeats it. I didn’t say I didn’t… but I just can’t decipher it, no matter which way I turn the runes. In fact, he even feels deflated and dissatisfied afterwards. It is obviously representative of her in some way, perhaps her ashes. I’ll spell out literally what I saw happen, but then you guys are going to need to paint between the numbers. The American dream of success is a lie. Roseanne Barr apparently watched the series premiere of The Conners and responded to her character's on-screen death off yesterday. While stationed there, he received a Dear John letter from his high school sweetheart. Came here confused, but fleshed out my ideas around the premise that Hitler and Bigfoot were 100% fantasy. – German dog (childhood fantasy to never be chickless or dogless) A present-day Barr (Sam Elliot) and his younger self (Aidan Poldark Turner). But we’ve been doing this now for something like ten years? To be honest with you, when I finished watching the movie weeks ago, I felt disappointed and even cheated, because the absurd title has got to be a clue to something zany, or at least tongue-in-cheek fun, right? Simple, like saying Pulp Fiction is just a film about redemption. Why Bigfoot? Because now it’s starting to really bother the heck out of me. The more I think about it, the more I think I actually enjoyed the movie. I think that the biggest cost to Calvin is that he finds out that his fears were far from unsurmountable and that is why he takes little satisfaction when he finally perceives that he has defeated them. The loss of the woman he loved and constantly reliving the lost opportunities to ask her to marry him. I thought it was hit-over-the-head significant that Calvin met agents after falling asleep in the chair, maybe directly in front of the lake painting, directly entering Bigfoot fantasy. Your email address will not be published. The website's critical consensus reads: "The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot just about lives up to the wild promise of its title, due in no small part to Sam Elliott's world-weary work in the title role. Alternatively, not actually hurt? He is very humble and ashamed if what he had to do. The true meaning lies in the scratch on the forehead. Old dollar bills, lottery tickets that don’t belong to you… it’s all tied up in the thoughts of honor and self-worth that have plagued Calvin all his life. – same age as the cryptkeeper but climbing rock face with bare hands (seriously?) Replies to my comments hahah. Secretly alive, Barr reappears and the two go fishing together. The screen fades to Barr's funeral as his brother gives a beautiful eulogy. – calling on walkie-talkie after hearing a shot, after explaining they were retreating an additional 50 miles (hearing a rifle fire at 75 miles) So no, I don’t think I will give it a go again to check if my second theory works or not. He was either to stupid to realize it or blinded by everyone else’s vision of the purpose of life. As he grows older and begins to face his fears, he finds himself equipped to tackle and ultimately overcome (KILL) them, although it is a struggle at first. The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that this is just his way of coping with regret and what could have been, when faced with the grim reality of old age and mortality. Even I brushed it off after watching it but after reading this walkthrough and the following comments I thought about it a bit more. And the fact that he died, but didn’t die? With the title you’d think you were about to watch something crazy or possibly comedic but they managed to make the entire story fairly melancholy which in itself was a bit off putting. The box represents Ed’s memories of Calvin that live on. I enjoyed the movie but I wasn’t able to decipher it either. The true story behind I Can Only Imagine reveals that the reason for the beating was because Bart had forged his father's name on a notification that he had made the honor roll. This book is another. The whole Bigfoot thing is a way for Calvin to save himself and come to grips with where he’s at in life. I read some reviews online claiming that it was a fantasy cooked up by Sam Elliott’s character (and maybe it was) to justify his cowardice in dealing with his fiancee. They explain that all life on Earth may be coming to an end as a strange virus has been killing people and animals in the Canadian wilderness and the original source of the virus is Bigfoot itself. The bar tender is the supportive loyal public that cares for him but he still goes home alone eventually. Whether or not those 2 key elements of his life *really* happened is almost beside the point. Take a second to support Taylor Holmes on Patreon! Actually, the movie this most reminded me of was Music of Chance. When Calvin comes in for a hair cut he asks where he’s been and says “we haven’t talked in a while” What I need is for you guys to come alongside me, and for you guys to make an effort to keep me sane here. So many, “wait, WHAT?” details that I couldn’t keep the entire thing straight. Normally, the way things work here on THiNC. I’m not really sure, so let my know what you think: I also think this film is an allegory about regret and coming to terms with this regret. The latest nefarious doings of none other than William P. Barr and Rudolph W. Giuliani have now forcefully underscored this very point. Also, I didn’t understand the repetitive conjecturing about things that were past their prime – past their expiration date. Simultaneously the pebble that’s been troubling him falls out and he releases…. hahaha. I went online to see if there were an explanation of what was in the box, perhaps from clues I had missed. The film tells the story of American soldier Calvin Barr (Turner), who leaves his true love behind to infiltrate enemy lines and kill Adolph Hitler in the heart of World War II. If I remember correctly, while Calvin’s two missions are decidedly grandiose, bordering on the fantastical, his love affair is anything but. It’s so funny, I disliked this movie because it literally made no sense. I found this page and read all the interpretations with interest. This is what regret does, when you don’t take care of it: it destroyes every living thing in your life, just like bigfoot’s plague kills everything in that wild life park. So what I need to happen here, is a reverse THiNC. I can see the whole dual regrets from the war both the personal and the professional. During Calvin’s talk with the bartender at the very beginning Calvin says the bartender has suggested he go off to the keys to die. And after watching them, I break them down, I attempt to explain them, and then we discuss them at length. When he talks to the FBI guys Calvin says “his feet really aren’t that big”. Because a strange virus is attacking the world. Barr hunts the Bigfoot, wounding him. The two larger than life heroes fight to the death, until finally, Barr shoots the beast to death. She wants him to stop and tie his shoe while she keeps walking because she doesn’t want to know that part of his life. I could literally go on about the film and the message I interpret from it but I can tell I’m waffling on a bit. I imagine it would have been difficult to nail down an actor to take the lead in a film with this kind of name and plot. And all the while, I’ve done literally the same exact thing. If that was the intent, than bravo!! 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