(SPOILERS!!)
I really loved this movie. I do not think he was a ghost. I think of it more like Slaughterhouse-5, time travel sort of stuff. He kept jumping forward and backward in time, from before the war to after the war to during the war and back again, never knowing where he was going to wake up next. He died in the war, but that doesn't mean the post-war stuff didn't happen, or that he was a ghost when it happened. I think he lived his life in random order, and happened to die in the middle of his life instead of at the end of it like one would expect.
Each time he woke up, he didn't know which woman would be in bed next to him, or if his son was alive or not. I particularly liked the part when he woke up next to Sarah, and he said "I had the worst dream. I was living with that woman Jezebel from the post office. It was horrible!", and then the look on his face when he woke up again in the bathtub with Jezebel next to him.
All in all, I just felt so much for Tim Robbin's character, and I was so caught up in the whole experience of the war scenes and the hallucinations... I have watched this one twice, and I will watch it again.
I really loved this movie. I do not think he was a ghost. I think of it more like Slaughterhouse-5, time travel sort of stuff. He kept jumping forward and backward in time, from before the war to after the war to during the war and back again, never knowing where he was going to wake up next. He died in the war, but that doesn't mean the post-war stuff didn't happen, or that he was a ghost when it happened. I think he lived his life in random order, and happened to die in the middle of his life instead of at the end of it like one would expect.
Each time he woke up, he didn't know which woman would be in bed next to him, or if his son was alive or not. I particularly liked the part when he woke up next to Sarah, and he said "I had the worst dream. I was living with that woman Jezebel from the post office. It was horrible!", and then the look on his face when he woke up again in the bathtub with Jezebel next to him.
All in all, I just felt so much for Tim Robbin's character, and I was so caught up in the whole experience of the war scenes and the hallucinations... I have watched this one twice, and I will watch it again.