Le Grand Bleu (The Big Blue) 1988.

Those who have seen the film often differ on the symbolism of the ending. In 1988, to my insufferably romantic 19 year old mind, it was clearly an enactment of Mayol’s trancendence to another state of being. The dolphin represented an emissary from a mystical world, or non-human consciousness, escorting him onward to bliss. *fin* [...]