If you haven't played it then go and get it. What's your take on the meaning of Limbo? If you've played the game let me know. When his sister suddenly starts and looks up it is because she feels her brother's presence. The boy fell from the tree house (or the rope ladder) which is represented by the final slow motion crash through some pane of material (be it glass or wood) and he finally found out the truth about it all - he died and his sister is alive. The treehouse is not "rotten away" (as some have claimed) but just broken and the little swirling motes of dust in the air could represent recently broken dry wood. If you look closely you can see that right in front of her the fuzzyness representing the grassy ground is not really that prominent thus providing for the theory that some something solid might be lying on the ground. When he reaches his sister in the end she is trying to wake up her brother who is lying on the ground. Now he must face and overcome them again to be able to acertain his sister's fate. For me, the game represents his personal journey through Limbo, fraught with all the things and obstacles he had to face in his life. Well, as for my own theory, I believe that all of what happens in the game is some sort of near death experience where the boy re-experiences parts of his life. Jumping onto this train of thought, others claim to discern the wreckage not of a car but of a school bus in the title screen (which I am totally unable to perceive) and believe that the other kids which you encounter while playing Limbo are the ghosts of this alleged schoolbus crash. ![]() Going even further into wild speculation is the theory that the boy's family had a car crash and his breaking through the aforementioned "pane of material" at the end of the game represents the crashing windshield. But nonetheless people have formed the theory that both the boy and his sister have died and that he finally meets her in the afterlife when he completes the trials of Limbo. Actually nothing that would ultimately hint at a grave. Well, there are two swarms of buzzing flies over some nondescript patches of ground. ![]() This is somewhat supported by gamers who believe that the title screen shows two graves. Some have suggested that the boy is a sort of villain who lives through flashes of his life again and finally gains understanding about himself and what he did. Or even the third world war and how mankind discovers true peace. ![]() For others it represents the increasing urbanization and pollution of nature. For some the whole journey represents mankind's fate from its humble beginnings (the boy starts in a wilderness) to end (where the background takes on a more and more urban look and gets increasingly threatening with traps, crushers, sawblades, automatic guns, giant cogwheels and other weird contraptions. As for the interpretations, they really go wild.
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