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Hope These three major scenes show how hope is important in the movie. Human beings have always, and always will be driven by hope. When Tanya dies, Curtis promises they will find Timmy. I’m not even sure he believes it himself, but when Tanya says “I know”, it’s almost certain she knows it will never happen. She has seen everyone dying around them, she knows Andrew never got to see his son again so she doesn’t believe a word of it. No, they won’t find Timmy. But she needs to believe it, she needs to be at peace when she dies. And when she says “Thank you”, she doesn’t thank him for finding Timmy, or saving their lives, because clearly Curtis didn’t,  but for giving them all tail-sectioners something they hadn’t had in 18 years: hope. She’s not dying with her son in her arms but with hope. Yes, she’s dying but she didn’t spend her last days as an exploited sheep. She died believing for a short while that another life was possible. That’s why she apparently thanks him for nothing. He didn’t give her a good life, resources, food or goods, he gave her even more.

The second scene shows how when he loses hope, Curtis loses everything. He ran from the tail to the Front because he thought he had absolutely nothing to lose, and sure, he owned nothing, so it seemed logical. But the very moment he realizes he has lost his people and most importantly, lost Gilliam, it’s over for him. Not Gilliam as a human being -he was already half-dead-, but as a father figure, a role model, an example. The moment Curtis realizes Gilliam is dirty, when he understands that yes Wilford knew Gilliam for real, it’s like he’s learning his God is evil. Everything he had, Gilliam’s support, his beliefs, his certitudes, everything is washed away by this little sentence. He’s got no one to look up to anymore. If even the holy figure of Gilliam was rotten, he doesn’t know what to fight for anymore. It’s clearly visible in the second gif, when he’s inside the Engine. Alone. All alone for the first time in eighteen years. What does he do? He looks behind himself, looks for help. Such loneliness is overwhelming. He knows everybody he loved and cared about is dead, the only one still alive is Nam who never really respected him, called him a ‘tail-section prick’. And in a moment when he’s supposed to think about what he’s gonna do now he’s got no one to guide him -no one but Wilford. Everything he thought he knew was fake, everything he thought was right is wrong. And this is the face of a man who lost everything he had: a little bit of hope. This is why Curtis is about to go dark and take Wilford’s place, until he sees Timmy and remember what he was fighting for in the first place. What Tanya was fighting for. Last but not least, the final scene is full of hope despite its sadness. The kids might die, very soon, but they realize that all the Front section lies weren’t true. The Engine stopped and they didn’t freeze and die. They can even remove their hoods, so yes it’s super cold but not dying cold. There’s even life! Dangerous life, of course, but life. The kids might die soon, it’s probable, but it was worth it because they’ll be free for a while. They will believe that another life is possible, believe it on their own, not because Wilford lied to them.