Summary
Back to the Future tells the story of Marty McFly, who travels back in time to 1955 and tries to recover a happy ending for his parents, but there may be another reading, that he returned to the present time to a reality completely different from the one he had left. .
Could Marty McFly’s ending in Back to the Future be a lie?
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The end of the classic “Back to the future” is considered by many to be a pleasant and cute ending to the adventure of Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), but there are those who say that it is not such a pleasant ending. Could it be that what seemed like a happy ending is actually a big farce and a dark story?
This is what the Reddit user behind the profile believes u/Boomfan67. For him, Marty McFly’s return to the present time is, in fact, the boy returning to a reality completely different from the one he left, where all his memories no longer exist, while he himself ignores how terrible and dark the reality is in that he is.
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Launched in 1985, “Back to the future” follows the adventures of a boy who travels back in time to 1955 and meets younger versions of his parents, and needs to ensure that they will stay together and have a happy ending. At the end of the film, Marty manages to return to his own time, where he finds his parents happy and everything, apparently, normal.
“Marty meets ‘good’ parents he doesn’t really know, which means the parents he grew up with are essentially dead,” argues the Redditor in his justification for the ending’s depressing outlook. “Which also means that most of your memories never actually happened.”
“I always found it disturbing, mainly because of the cheerful way it all appears despite all this, with Marty not seeming to realize what happened. The only positive thing is that Doc Brown is able to live by opening the letter sooner”ends.
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Is Marty McFly living a lie?
The theory about the tragic ending of “Back to the future” was disputed by other Reddit users, as some fans don’t believe the story’s happy outcome should be questioned.
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The profile u/recently_muted empathetically responds to Marty’s decision, saying that, “as someone who grew up with unhappy parents, the ending is perfect”.
“If I could go back in time and make my parents happy, I wouldn’t think twice,” he reflects.
Other people, like u/MalcolmTuckersLuck, believe that some fans try to create too many theories about something that is relatively simple. For many, the film’s ending seeks to emphasize how much George (Crispin Glover) and Lorraine (Lea Thompson) reached the potential of their lives, and focusing too much on possible tragic readings is ignoring the film’s message.
Back to the future is available for streaming on Star+, Prime Video and Globoplay.
Source: Redação Entre Telas
