Reviews

I have a lot of mixed feelings about this movie. First of all. I like food for thought and definitely this movie is a rich source of it. I really enjoy philosophical and existential questions, this movies raises them. It was an original, creative and most of all revolutionary representation of these questions adding a lot of value to the industry of cinema, specially to sci-fi genre. The photography is amazing for that time. But I have a problem, I am watching it in 2020 for the first time and I am not that young anymore... I like the space given for ourselves in this movie...i already found many ways to interpret it and many of them can even be interconnected...that's the best part of the movie...many nice philosophical theories. That is the genial part of the movie. The script of the second part (the only part with one in fact) is just very poor... I guess the acting does not help, but the takes are just not good...One can argue that it was on purpose to focus on the main idea of the movie...but for me it was a waste... The part of the machine slowly dying was a really bad scene... the dialogues in general were just so poor... I would almost have preferred an even slower and completely silent movie... (even though in my opinion that would cut some sense of the movie, because the voice is an important part of the second stage of men's evolution in this movie) I am just not satisfied. It's a genial idea, but under-performed. It deserved much more.

After watching this last episode, I was upset like most of the people. I could not believe that this would be the end. But after some time of reflection, I was able to accept it. Eventually I realized this ending makes sense.

Let's put the whole story into perspective. all these years of stories are told from the perspective of someone that had lost the beloved wife 6 years before. And understanding this is essential to understand the purpose of the whole series. It's cruel to lose the person we love. It's also very cruel to lose the mother at such a young age. Why would the last episode show the funeral and the mourn? The kids knew very well what they suffered and so did Ted. That's the reason why he did not focus on telling stuff about the death of their mother. Just imagine yourself as a parent... And guys...It has been 6 years!! 6 years!! 6 years is a lot!!! 6 years of loneliness and mourn...But life goes on... And he deserves to try again, to try to believe in love once again... This just shows how Ted is a hopeless romantic... try to see all these 9 (real) years of stories from the perspective of someone has been sad and lonely for 6 years, because he lost the love of his life.

Regarding the rest of characters, all seems to me very coherent. Marshal pursuing his dreams of fighting for a better world and Lilly always next to him. In my opinion there are countless clues during the series that Barney and Robin would not stay together. At least I never really believed in it. It's actually funny because neither of them wanted to get married, but they did get married. And many people can look at their journey and see a huge progress and indeed there was! But this also shows us that you can be a better person, but some changes cannot be forced...both are independent lone-wolfs! Barney was not able to be happy adjusting to Robin's life. And Robin was not able to give up on her dreams either. And this is the lesson here...when you compare to Marshall and Lilly both accepted to give up on their dreams to pursue their bigger dream of being together. Of course I cant deny it was sad for me to see Barney being a womanizer again, but then again one cannot deny their own essence. Ted was always the hopeless romantic and Barney the womanizer...so both reactions after their "separations" were very natural. And in my opinion it makes all the sense the Barney will be the father he has never had...

We all relate movies and series to our own stories and many times they inspire us and give us more hope. I still think the final of these series can inspire us a lot, but also shows us that there are things we cannot avoid and that is hard to accept. I believe this is the reason why so many people are not able to accept this ending.

Thank you HIMYM for this beautiful story.