I'd like to state that these are not my thoughts or insights I'm merely re-posting them here because I found them a poignant if rather melancholic interpretation that I felt others might find valuable.
Posted on 28 April 2013, 16:29 UTC by dc_again
I think the first guy was imaginary. The girl saw a story on television about guys like him who turned out to be scammers who take money from parents after offering to "support" their children. She used that story to imagine him up.
Imagined guy asks her to leave the room if he wins at rock-paper-scissors. They get interrupted before they can do it.
Some guy (a real person) comes by, has sex with her and leaves her money. He tells her to not change (either because he genuinely thinks she's good the way she is, or because he's using her for sex).
Imagined guy reappears. The girl tells him that she was supposed to go to an interview, but that she was late (because of sex). He tells her she still has time and gets her to take a shower.
Imagined guy "prepares" her food (in reality, they're food stuffs sent to her by her mother). She eats, and asks if he'd like to "..." her (verb omitted, but it's likely that she's asking if he wants to "fuck" her). He goes "huh?" and she says "No, nothing" (either because she realizes he's imaginary, or because she changed her mind).
Panels show that she's dressed and blow drying her hair, with panels of the train station interspersed. It's possible that she's just imagining the train station. In any case, she doesn't board a train.
She's on the roof with imagined guy. Imagined guy says she can try getting a job that doesn't involve trains. She says she'd like to do what he does and that she has "experience". It's possible that she's projecting onto him because of the parallel between him as a "support" guy (who t.v. said scams parents) and her (who lives off of stuff sent to her mother).
Imagined guy says he has "experience" too, but she says he's making stuff up to gain her sympathy. He admits it. This is his first job since he left his old firm. Again, it's possible that she's projecting her own state onto him (it's her first time leaving her room in a long time).
She asks if he can think of something fun. He brings up rock-paper-scissors again. She proposes that the winner jumps off the roof. He accepts and they start the game. It doesn't show who won, it just shows an empty roof.
Real guy goes to her apartment and finds it empty except for the t.v. He looks around, then leaves.
My theory: On the roof, the imagined guy mentioned that she "was close" to making it for the train and that she had plenty of time. Basically, while blow drying her hair, she realized that she could never board the train; her imaginary friend was aware of this and said she "was close" because she really was psychologically (not physically) close to going to the interview (before the blow dryer scene made her change her mind). In the end, she decided against going to the interview, but she had already resolved to leaving her apartment (by playing a game of rock-paper-scissors with an imaginary guy before she was interrupted). So, she went to the roof and then convinced herself to jump (again by playing rock-paper-scissors with that imaginary guy). Imaginary guy was imaginary, so he disappeared when she died.
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