John Smith

Aside from other’s obvious reflections. The double offers something completely missed by regular viewers. The movie has various metaphors and hints. . Next time you watch it. Think of it like this. Simon is actually at a mental hospital. From the moment he leaves the train. His belongings are trapped and taken…. . Hannah is actually dead the entire movie. Melany is hannah and hannah is melany. Its saying that hannah has two sides. Melany is the dark lusting female. Hannah the innocent creative soul without hormones. When simon. Calls her up. Its him reaching out for hannah in melany. Only to then shut it down and hurt her. They are the same person…. Simon advances on her too strongly n this is conveyed throughout the movie. . Later she kills herself n it shows her in melany’s makeup to confirm this that they are the same person. The entire movie. Hes basically reliving her suicide over and over. Hannah being his true love n other women are objects of lust. He has immense guilt for cheating on her. Using her. And sleeping around. . Everytime he kills himself he awakens a new person trying to move on from what he did to hannah but cant. Thats him jumping off the building. Trying to get healthy n leave the hospital. . Enter the train again. Hes been there 7 years at the “company”. So we can assume hes done this frequently by assessing the time line. as a hard working man. His innocence is his work. Akin to hannah’s drawings. Hes in a psychosis trying to conclude the hospital is his place of work. Also he is working to get better... . But the vacant coworkers are a metaphor for the doctors and other patients who never leave. to only see him as a patient. Not a person…. One doctor his main boss isnt really helping him. He plays along with his psychosis. Seeing simon as a lost cause... simon, Basically, He sees hannah everywhere. Everytime he goes out. Its hannah. But remember shes actually dead. also, melany’s father is the owner. Vs hannah’s manager is her mother. Showing how parents inspire different tenacity in the woman. That they can be two different people while men are overshadowing their humility to succeed. Its conveying how young women when they hit puberty become someone else while men dont really change. Men just put on a personna. the guard that lets him in the door. Is shown in a doctor’s outfit during the suicide scene. To show he snaps out of his psychosis a little but are actually at the hospital the entire time. Every work evaluation is him talking to a doctor. The coworker’s and their vacancy to him are other patients n doctors thrown into the mix. Along with anyone that acknowledges him are people he confides in different ways to the doctors of the hospital. Love this movie. Watching it once. You may not notice all of this. Its alot to take in since the movie is showing two completely different interpretations at once. Each interpretation kind of over lays the other in various ways to convey a very deep movie of logical twists n turns. Playing into one or the other based on how you want to see it. Like a two seperate people interpreting an abstract painting n seeing a different image. All the variables. Representing the seperate hemispheres of our brains.