Probably Unanswerable Questions
The eight-hour timeline; why Cameron's dad hated him; Ferris's future; the Buellers' mean dog; Cameron online; college plans
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- Pulled forward from Unanswerable Questions: from a roughly 9:45 pickup to home before six, they visit the Sears Tower, stock market, art museum, Chez Quis as Abe Froman, a Cubs game, a parade and the garage; could it happen in eight hours?
- No; parade traffic alone would jam every street. — Chris Ryan
- The impossible timeline suggests the movie may be a fantasy or dream, a manifestation of "Alan Ruck's" anxiety (as spoken). — Sean Fennessey
- A 2009 challenge to reenact the day in eight hours is renewed for after the pandemic, and rideshare might make the movie obsolete.
- Why Cameron's dad hated him: Cameron seemed decent, so the dad is just an asshole, and the car was asking for it.
- Could Ferris hack on a 1985 dial-up line? A sequel where he becomes a software billionaire by 2001 is floated.
- Why would a nice Midwest family have such a mean dog?
- Cameron in 2016 would have written first-person essays about his trauma and his dad, and might be on the dirtbag left.
- The Ferris-as-figment theory is loved as a way of reading the movie, though not its point.
- College futures: Ferris and Sloan probably do not marry; Cameron maybe goes to Michigan, and Ferris somewhere with less emphasis on grades.
- The day seems to be in April, so a senior should already know his college; maybe he was waitlisted or goes to the University of Illinois to visit Sloan.