In Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, young protagonist Sam is being chased by a band of Khaki Scouts, and they are about to catch him when he stops atop a cairn in "lightning field" and is struck by lightning.
A moment later, he awakens, surrounded by friends. The pursuing Khaki scouts are not there.
What happened? The darkest theory is that everything from that point on in the film is a fantasy, and that Sam is dead. There is some evidence that this may be the case, but nothing conclusive. (If this is what Anderson had in mind, then the end is something like the end of Fanny & Alexander, which has a similar moment of disaster followed by an almost magical resolution of all difficulties, sometimes interpreted as the death of the title characters).
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