| Riachu said: It is an anime series created by Satoshi Kon |
I take it it's a rather trippy one, considering this thread!
| Voltaire said: This is one of the aspects of the game that confused me. Throughout it (specially towards the end), Dahlia is suggested as the mother. She says shes married to Harry, she even calls Cheryl her daughter, but when Harry is in her apartment the woman with blonde hair is her mother. Also, an ending shows Harry and the blonde woman splitting up, with Cheryl taping it all. Then theres the fact that when Dahlia is young, she says she hardly knows Cheryl. So in this imaginary world, Dahlia is Cheryls stepmother.
Ill piggyback what most here are saying that Harry isnt real, and is only in Cheryls imagination. That would make all the other characters imaginary as well. |
I wonder if Dahlia is supposed to represent more than that. She's certainly portrayed as the least-likable of all the characters, which reinforces your point that she's supposed to be a stand-in for Cheryl's real mother, but at the last meeting it seems like she's trying to stall and distract Harry as much as possible. Her last text message even asks Harry to turn back, even though the lighthouse is only a short distance away. And I really doubt any boat is so slow that it would take twenty minutes to cross a lake...
| naiyo said: Well when Michelle and her boyfriend was fighting in the car and Harry was sitting in the back seat looking at all of this... I thought thats how Cheryl might have seen her parents fighting once and a while. |
Good point, I hadn't thought of that. We know from many of the echo messages that she was listening in to her father's conversations.
