The end of “The Adam Project” explained in the words of its own director

The Adam project ranks among the most watched titles on the platform Netflix since its launch on March 11. Shawn Levy directs this new cinematic adventure in which he collaborates for the second time with Ryan Reynolds and will soon be teaming up again with Deadpool 3. Regarding the popularity of this film that mixes science fiction and time travel, we delve into the explanation of the ending and what the director himself said. Attention, spoilers later!

“A time-traveling pilot teams up with his younger version and his late father to reconcile with his past and save the future,” says the official synopsis of the film available on the streaming service. In addition to Reynolds, the cast consists of Walker Scobell (in his acting debut as young Adam), Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner and Zoe Saldana.

Explanation of the end of The Adam Project, according to Shawn Levy

When asked about the ending he chose for the film, Levy emphasized that The Indomitable Will Hunting was one of the great inspirations to make this project a reality and, in fact, the scene of “it's not your fault” was very meaningful to him as a movie buff. “We really wanted our film to end with this catharsis in which one character tries to share something emotional with the other, and the other is not able to assimilate it,” the filmmaker said in an interview with Comicbook.

“And as we know in real life, if someone is not going to assimilate the connection, assimilate the feeling, sometimes you have to crush it with it. So I said, that day I said, 'Mark, make Ryan understand. Do it'. And Ryan resisted, and the more he resisted, Mark went after him and the result is the beautiful and emotional scene with which our film ends”, he added about the filming process with the main stars that resulted in an emotional moment.

At the conclusion stage for The Adam Project, we see that Sorian has revealed his true plans, while the two Adam and Louis are in a room containing the electromagnetic particle accelerator. She shoots at the father of the protagonists, but ends up impacting herself as a young man and completely eliminates all his versions in the future.

The end of time travel has come and everyone must start their lives again from their own time lines, no one remembers what happened and Adam Elder reunites with Laura again to relive their romance being now two strangers. However, there is still a chance that both of them will be able to remember and know who the other is. Something similar happens when young Adam hugs his mother, something that his adult self asked him before and that he did not remember, but he had the need to do so for some reason.

Previously, the sequence that moved more than one who watched The Adam Project was when Louis with Adam from present and future play to catch the ball. This allows the older version of Adam to spend a few moments with his father, something that his young self constantly reminded him, since he never stopped having time for his son no matter how busy and exhausted he was from his work. It is a way to close a circle with a happy ending, but, in turn, sad because it is inevitable that the characters of Ryan Reynolds and Mark Ruffalo will have to separate again.

“These children and this father need to close the relationship the way many parents and children do, which is nonverbally and through shared activity,” Shawn Levy deepened for The Wrap. “Because that's how life really happens, and it may be a cliché, but that doesn't make it any less true.”

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