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William D McCrum
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I think that's the intention. The film is basically 'a King Lear' device used to describe the dying man's fears being resolved. It's true enough that when the very old reach the last hurdle, they sometimes become paranoid and a darker side emerges that attacks their children. This is temporary.
A theory is that, as energy decreases, the amount of that energy that has been used for years to hold back suppressed or repressed resentments is no longer there, so an underlying 'shadow' Mr. Hyde is able to break out to be resolved, if opportunity presents. The 'shadowy' stuff takes place by night in the movie, with all the bad projections put onto the 'villainous' youth, but in the 'clear light of day' in the second half, we see that the children are very nice in reality (maybe TOO nice!).
I suppose given that a movie like this is all unashamedly symbolic, those helicopters mean something. I'll have to look again. Off the top, helicopters in cinema (as in 'Blade Runner', 'Capricorn 1' etc.) tend to represent 'Big Brother' watching and hovering about... good paranoia symbols.
Isn't the movie SET in Providence by day (little metaphors again) with the European cities just from his dreams and concoctions at fearful night? Certainly, there's a metaphor (see 'Plymouth Adventure'!) in dreams/legends of the 'Transatlantic Journey' to the 'New World', in THIS case, from night (Europe) to day ('Providence'). Resnais is very au fait with all this stuff. Whatever you may think of symbolism in movies, this type of film relies on it totally.
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