Maybe your life does flash before your eyes…
As Top Gun: Maverick soars over a billion dollars at the box office, a fan theory about the film has become increasingly popular on social media. There are spoilers for the movie to come, so I am warning you here.
The basic theory is this. At the opening of Top Gun: Maverick, we see Tom Cruise’s character testing a new military jet, taking its speed to the extreme. That jet explodes, and Pete “Maverick” Mitchell supposedly survives.
But what if he didn’t? What if, at the moment of the explosion, we enter his point of view and get a hallucination about what he wished his life would be?
A vision of what it would be like to go back to Top Gun, see his old friends, start a love affair with the one who got away, bury the hatchet with Goose’s son, and fly one last mission with purpose. It would explain some of the far-fetched parts of the movie… like one Twitter user pointed out, do people in their 20s really know the words to “Great Balls of Fire”?
Check out this video from David Chen, and let’s talk after.
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
