I thought that we didn’t touch on all the possible avenues the last gunshot into the darkness might imply. If course there are countless things, yet I feel that one of the most prominent themes of the entire film is represented in that shot. It seems to me like an exploration into unknown territories. Robots may eventually take over the world with technological advancements and replace human beings, a bush can be turned into any “green animal” any day or a car or a couch– the possibilities are endless for bush trimming, the butterfly tie man found the first mammal to act in insect like behaviors, but this may be only the first–there may be more– and the circus performers and trainers are always looking for a new act, a new way to draw audiences. I think a gunshot could definitely stand for all these leaps into the unknown darkness, piercing through the air with speed to who knows where?