When You Came Over's Symbolism
Blindfolds
These help to signify the awareness of the 2 people towards each another. There are 3 levels. Standing back to back would be crossing paths. Turning around to face one another would be recognizing that the other person is actually there. Removing of blindfolds would be seeing the possibility that there is more to the other person.
Dimensions
2 Dimensions are basically parallel universes NOT a dream, the forested fantasy world is the symbolic representation of 'real life' put into literal sense, eg.blindfolded etc. The constant references to and fro during pivotal moments of the narrative work as reiteration, or what I call anchors the signifiers to the intended signifieds.
Walking backwards
It is not them being lost. It's moving with eyes wide shut, unaware/distracted by the pursuit of education (link: the books she hold) for the girl and technology (link: the room lit by a computer screen)for the dude. They are not walking right, exactly how distractions of the future would make you. They stop and meet back facing back explains finally, an awareness of an existence, but not the potential comfort they can bring to one another, hence still facing away and blindfolded.
Their relationship
It is now ambiguous at the end whether they are lovers or not. But there still is an underlying attraction between the two. The focus is them finally finding comfort from each other. Hence explains the falling asleep of the girl.
The fall and the injury
The idea of how broken a person is mended from the missing part that the other would possess. Reinventing the corny idea of 2 broken hearts complete by joining the 2 parts tgt. lol
Hope this helps? not?
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