This is likely to be the commonest interpretation of the film. Initially, the youngsters’ father might be heard telling somebody on the cellphone that Kevin fell down the steps however was, “Fantastic” and, “Did not want stitches.” Shortly after this, the nightmare begins and we’re left to surprise simply how “fantastic” Kevin actually was.
Redditor “DCBBF68” suggested that, quite than being in hell, “Kevin is not useless a lot as his mind is slowly dying,” and we’re witnessing the gradual degradation of his thoughts — therefore the more and more surreal imagery. Different Redditors have reached comparable conclusions. According to “Termmie,” Kevin “goes comatose after [the] incident, and we keep inside his comatose dream for 574 days.” The kid ultimately “forgets the format of his home till he can solely bear in mind the TV. He forgets what human faces appear like. Finally he forgets his title.” On the end of the movie, a barely distinguishable face emerges from the darkness. Kevin asks its title, just for it to answer with the identical query. We do not hear Kevin reply — therefore the concept his comatose thoughts has been absolutely depersonalized.
The coma principle is among the extra seemingly options, however as “DCBBF68” factors out, it will require that Kaylee is merely a figment of Kevin’s deteriorating thoughts, quite than an autonomous character — “Issues occur to her when Kevin is not there,” suggesting she and Kevin are going by way of the identical expertise, due to this fact it might probably’t merely be happening solely in Kevin’s thoughts. Whether or not it is simply Kevin or each he and his sister, the entire thing will not be solely extremely creepy, it is devastatingly unhappy within the sense that this quintessential evil is being visited upon two younger kids incapable of greedy the enormity of all of it.
