The TRUE Meaning of INFINITY POOL | Full Movie Breakdown, Analysis And Ending Explained

Any time I see Mia Goth I know it's going to be weird.

In the middle of the movie, where everybody is gathered up in the room together before being executed, I wonder if that was the one time that the detective executed real humans over the clones. He said that he wanted to make them an example and those clones seemed really panicked in that execution, something the real people never showed beforehand. That might have been the secret switchout where the real people died and the clones took their place

When I watched the film my interpretation of that final scene was simply that even though James was returning home (the scene in the airport with his plane ticket) his mind was still at the resort (next scene under the rain). He was still processing everything that happened and hadn’t *really* come home. That experience would stay with him, he would never fully leave the resort. He also could have physically stayed, of course. I thought it was weird that he was there all alone (didn’t the hotel close during the rainy season?) so I also thought maybe it was just a representation of his psyche at that moment.

Brandon Cronenberg is becoming a very promising director. You can totally see his dad's influence on his filmmaking style. His other film Possessor is also fantastic.

Interesting take on the movie, but I didn't see the ending in the same way. What we see in the end is a man completely lost and broken. His previous life felt fake because he knew he was. A struggling writer only able to go through the motions because of his well of wife. He knew that was not a world he belongs in. As the events of the movie happen, he thinks of himself as belonging to the other group, free from the shackles of his life. His need for kindred spirits leads him to think this is the life for him, but in the end he is shown he could never belong there either. He thought his actions were further ingratiating him but really the entire group was amused by him in the same way a person would be amused by a particularly funny street dog. Even the seemingly nurturing scene near the end smacks of pity more than acceptance. In the end, he knew he couldn't go back to his wife because that life was never his to begin with. And he couldn't go to his new group because he didn't belong there either. All he can do is sit around in his solitude, waiting for the next group to tell him who he is, because he doesn't have a clue. The irony here is he could have used all of this to become the writer he always pretended to be, but there is so little left inside of him that he could never put pen to paper again.

I think there's also something to be said about the fact that no real emphasis is put on the consequences of doubling. You keep expecting the double to be a monster in some way, or at least for each incarnation to move farther away from "the original". When no terrifying change ever occurs, it becomes clear that the real relevance lies in the fact that no matter how many times you change yourself or how many versions of yourself you create, your problems are always still there if not faced head on. That's what I took away from it anyhow.

The movie kinda feels like a journey through an ayahuasca retreat. They all spend the week murdering their clones (egos) in a foreign country and then they just go back home like nothing ever happened.

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Infinity Pool was literally Eyes Wide Shut meets Lost Highway meets Enemy

Just a silly theory but I think what we're seeing is a visual representation of his new book. Everything in the start of the film happened to him in real life, even running someone over, up until all the clone stuff got revealed. The clue is how Gaby reacts when he suggests calling the police. She says some horrible things about what will happen, when in reality she knows he can just pay his way out. I think she really did say those things because she believed that would happen, but then the book goes a little wild and off-course. Throughout the book, James is confessing things that he did on holiday. He killed someone, paid the police off, enjoyed a nice bit of debauchery and drowned his sorrows, did a lot of hallucinogenics (which could've inspired his writing even more) etc. etc.