Much like "The Neverending Story" it's really about ideas and people created, known, acknowledged and then either forgotten or abandoned entirely. This leads us to the first twist, the one that I understood and seems sort of presumptuous in a sort of "Million Dollar Baby" kind of way, but trying to make an entirely different point than that film sought out to make. The second twist I didn't completely comprehend. Not that my lack of understanding comes from incompetent writing. It's just the symbolism of the two worlds the main character lives in seems to veer off into a tangent by the end.

Maybe you can make more sense of the ending. Just don't go into this movie expecting to be scared. Expect, instead a slightly more adult take on movies like "Neverending Story" or "Return To Oz". It's a dark fantasy and the Pang Bros' most beautiful film to date, visually. It doesn't have the HD shot-on-video look of their earlier films, thankfully. I enjoyed it enough to be convinced they have a decent grasp of special fx. Now if they can pull of these kind of visuals with their new film (after "The Messengers") the comic book adaptation "The Darkness".