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Eric's Participation

posted 8 years ago by blargnstein
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The ending flashback lead me to believe that Eric might have also participated in other games - thoughts? One contrary detail was his tantrum in his tie-breaker with the fetus, though it also could have been his first game with a pregnant participant.

It might have been funny if the fetus clenched its fist too (that also would have been awful and I wouldn't have been impressed LMAO)

Also, something I've submitted to the trivia section: "Towards the end of the film, Eric is seen in a tie-breaker with the pregnant woman's fetus - this means that when the child and pregnant woman were still alive there were technically four players remaining. This may explain the excessive quantity of children in the ending scene, where Eric approaches the group of survivors from their respective games - such as to suggest that all fetuses would be stillborn, and other groups may have realized this and opted for the single child (presuming that they were faced with a quandry similar to the group that we spectated.) This also obscoleces the rationale of opting for the longevity of a pregnant player."

[–] transmentalist 8 years ago

There's no guarantee that every circle had both a child and a pregnant lady, or either a child or a pregnant lady (or only one child or only one pregnant lady)

We're only shown one circle, with participants arbitrarily chosen by the filmmakers for maximum dramatic impact.

There could have been "boring" circles full of principled people and a single child, where they all killed themselves to save the child. There could also have been circles where the whole group panics and runs, and they all die. We simply don't see them, because those aren't stories the filmmakers wanted to tell.

Also, the flashbacks were all scenes from this movie - no indication that Eric had done this before. The movie, or maybe Eric himself, was simply "reminiscing."

[–] ridah (286) 6 years ago

**SPOILER**

It wasn't a flashback...[spoiler]that was after the game was finished, he survived.[/spoiler]

[–] ExTechOp (2770) 5 years ago

The fetus only got counted because the pregnant lady happened to fall with her belly on a circle.

If she finished the game standing up, she'd have registered as a single player - we can infer this even if the filmmakers hadn't explained it in commentary (which they did).