Minkin wrote:It seems Jason Polan is making these clues increasingly difficult - as quite a few recently + the New Years clue have been more vague and open to several interpretations (Here is Your Life also had many passionate guesses for Tree of Life + Waking Life - both of which still seem like they could one day be forthcoming, clue or not).
I'm not sure what to make of this clue. Missing makes sense, as the possessor of the coat goes missing. It's also one of my most-wanted upgrades, so I wouldn't mind that being correct. Code Unknown works for the pun factor + the former Kino titles are no more, thus its a question of who now owns the Haneke films.
I don't think he's making them harder, I just think that people are getting wilder and wilder with their guesses. For instance, the only way "Waking Life" makes sense is if you say "well, there's a box of life, and it's on a tray, which would likely make it breakfast, and breakfast is a meal you eat when you wake up." That's several steps removed. Newsletter/New Year clues are almost always either:
A.) A visual pun, or
B.) Directly referencing relatively iconic or recognizable things from the film (either an object like Mullholland Drive, or a famous line like It Happened One Night.)
If this were a hint for Missing, the logic goes like this:
-Missing is a mystery film about someone's disappearance.
-A mystery like a disappearance is sort of like a question that has to be answered.
-question marks go at the end of questions.
-Some people in Missing wear coats sometimes.
That's a lot of leaps in logic, never minding the fact that the only similarities between all of these costs is that they have two arms and a neck hole.
Is a Missing upgrade coming? Probably. But it's probably incidental to this clue. So far I think Code Unknown makes the most sense when you consider the kinds of puns they usually make for these, plus it's apparent out-of-print status.
And for the record, Il Soroasso makes way more sense than Midnight Cowboy. You're just letting your heart lead you astray.
EDIT
Minkin wrote:Someone at Blu-ray.com suggested Young and Innocent as being the clue
This makes a whole lot of sense, too.