“11 Creative Film Interpretations You Probably Hadn’t Considered”

This is a pretty fun list with some intriguing interpretations of movies including The Shining, Back to the Future, and Fight Club. My favorite is the take on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off:

Theorist: Jeff Roda, among many

Plot: High school senior Ferris Bueller skips school and goes on an adventure, with help from his best friend Cameron.

The Supporting Evidence: This theory involves entertaining the possibility that Cameron never even leaves his bedroom over the course of the film. Roda believes that Ferris was invented by Cameron to cope with both his parents inattentiveness as well as his own insecurities. Ferris seems to be everything that Cameron would want to be (adventurous, assertive, has a girlfriend), so it makes sense that he might be a projection of Cameron’s imagination rather than an actual mischievous friend. Like the romance in Fight Club, this theory makes sense if Cameron has a crush on Sloane, so he develops an alter ego, so he can experience a relationship with her.

We’ve already had a great discussion around this question: Who is the Protagonist in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off which you can read here. But the above interpretation takes the thing in a whole other direction. What say ye?

For the other movies, go here.

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