I'm usually late in the game because I watch most of my movies on DVD instead of at the theater. Has anyone seen this? I love the development of community in this, how it goes from isolated individuals each dealing with their own problems to these individuals fighting for the others.
The train symbolizes life--are you going to get on and go somewhere or watch it pass by. Fin watches trains. There are these people--I forget the term now--who video the trains, who drive crazy, take chances, and try to catch and hang with the trains for as long as possible.
Fin never did this.
Until his new, talkative (and pushy) friend forces him to.
He forces him to live.
Then there's the watch. The watch symbolizes how the main character tried to keep everything neat and orderly, tried to deal with persecution by controlling it (ignoring it) instead of interacting with people. But the watch is smashed and he doesn't ignore persecution when he learns community. He fights it with strangers, and fights past it with his friend in order to truly help her. (And I love how they didn't make that relationship romantic in the end--they let it be a true friendship.)
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