Andrew Scott has revealed what he believes will be the fate of his divisive character in hit film All Of Us Strangers.
The actor, 48, played screenwriter Adam in this moving film that blurs the line between reality and fantasy.
It’s based on Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel Strangers, and by the end viewers are left wondering whether the protagonist has been dead or alive the whole time.
Now, weighing in on a popular fan debate, Adam has expressed that he “doesn’t believe” his character has passed away, which many theorize may be the case.
talking to the guardiansaid: ‘People have come up with extraordinarily personal and creative ideas about what they think the film says.
‘All of Us Strangers is great because it ignites the public’s imagination and sometimes there is a poverty of imagination in our films.
‘Sometimes the worst thing you can do is reduce the magic by explaining it too much. I guess that’s my way of saying I’m not going to answer that.
The film has made people cry since its release in January and many believe it was overlooked in this year’s awards season.
Andrew Scott has revealed what he believes will be the fate of his divisive character in hit film All Of Us Strangers.
The actor, 48, played screenwriter Adam in this moving film that blurs the line between reality and fantasy.
The emotional drama starring Andrew and Paul Mescal unites a beautiful romance with deep pain, as Andrew’s character, Adam, remains deeply affected by the death of his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell).
The film begins as we meet Adam living a life of loneliness in his abandoned house. High-rise urban apartment in London.
Watching Frankie Goes To Hollywood perform The Power of Love on his television, a motif that continues to appear throughout the film, Adam knocks on the door when he meets his neighbor Harry, played by Paul Mescal.
When Harry arrives drunk holding a bottle of whiskey, he quotes lyrics from the hit Frankie Goes To Hollywood and whispers, “I’ll protect you from the hooded claw / Keep the vampires away from your door.”
After asking Adam if he can spend the night with him, Adam refuses, but then meets Harry in the lift and the pair begin a passionate relationship.
As Adam learns to love someone and let them in, he is deeply affected by the death of his parents after they both died in a car accident when he was 11 years old.
The film depicts a romance between Harry and Adam. However, Harry dies the same night he meets Adam, as is discovered later in the film.
Throughout the film, Andrew continues to visit his parents in his childhood home, which is just as he remembered them in the 1980s (pictured Claire Foy, who plays his mother).
Throughout the film, Andrew continues to visit his parents in his childhood home, which is just as he remembered them in the 1980s.
After saying goodbye to his parents for the last time in a deeply emotional interaction, Adam appears ready to move on from his grief and start a life with Harry.
However, he returns to Harry’s apartment to discover his body next to the same bottle of whiskey he was carrying when he showed up at Adam’s door that first night.
As Adam stares in shock at Harry’s body, the door opens again and Harry walks in wearing the same pink sweater from that first night and asks, “I’m there, right?”
When he cries in Adam’s arms, it becomes clear: Harry has been dead the entire movie after dying the night Adam refused to spend the night with him.
However, once you realize it, the clues throughout the movie start to present themselves.
First, on the night they meet, Harry is holding the same Japanese whiskey they found him in when he dies and wearing the same tattered pink sweater.
The couple are also the only two occupants of the building, and Harry mentions that the windows have been locked to prevent people from jumping out.
The emotional drama starring Andrew and Paul Mescal unites a beautiful romance with deep pain
Adam then visits his parents and we learn for the first time that he can see dead people and interact with them in an incredibly realistic way.
After her visit she meets Harry in the elevator and their relationship begins. Growing closer throughout the film, the couple spends a blurry night and it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish what is real.
This is where things get quite confusing, as after Adam takes a large dose of ketamine it’s unclear what reality is.
As the lights flash and the music plays, Harry disappears and Adam’s vision distorts as he struggles to distinguish whether Harry is really there or not.
On the subway home, Harry keeps appearing and disappearing as Adam loses his grip on reality.
At the end of the film, Adam enters Harry’s apartment and finds an empty bag of drugs and a bottle of whiskey before seeing Harry’s body and realizing that he has overdosed.
It is implied that the body is in an advanced state of decomposition as Adam recoils from the smell, suggesting that he has been dead for a long time and no one has noticed.
However, is Adam also dead?
Now, weighing in on a popular fan debate, Adam has expressed that he “doesn’t believe” his character has passed away, which many theorize may be the case. Andrew and Paul photographed in February
Some theories suggest that the main character is not alive either, which is why he can interact with dead people so easily.
Adam strangely lives in an empty apartment block, perhaps implying that there’s a reason no one else lives there or that he doesn’t really live there at all.
At the beginning of the film a fire alarm sounds, prompting the theory that Adam died in a fire that day, trapping his spirit with Harry.
Discussing this theory, director Andrew Haigh said: “Someone asked me the other day if everyone had died when the building burned. They said, ‘Oh, did the building burn at the beginning or at the end?’ And I said, ” Building burned?”
‘But it’s because there’s a fire alarm at the beginning, and I think someone thought that maybe when he went out and came back in, they both burned to death in the apartment and the rest is some kind of purgatory.
—The truth is that I like that idea. I know a lot of people think that maybe Adam isn’t alive and I can understand why they might think that. The close-up is strange and sometimes I think maybe he’s not alive either.’
Another debate is whether ghosts are real or not.
There is a theory that Adam and Harry’s parents are not real ghosts and could simply be a figment of Adam’s imagination.
Early on we learn that Adam is writing a script about his parents, so all the visits to his childhood home could be imagined as part of his project.
However, this does not explain why Adam cannot understand that Harry is also a ghost even though he knows this to be true of his parents.
Either way, Adam has selected these figures from his life out of his own loneliness and pain as he struggles to overcome his childhood trauma and find his place in the world.