I'll be as brief as possible.
I believe this was a prescient view of the "New World Order".
It appears to me that EVERYONE in the "Village" was there for #6. The whole joint was a set-up for him. Why? To get him out of the way. Temporarily.
They let him go. Why? Because everything was in place. The entire world had succumbed to the "New World Order"....the entire world had become the "Village".
If they broke him while they were keeping him out of the way, more power to them. If they didn't, who cares, when he got back to London, there would be nothing he could do about anything. Sure, it's kind of outlandish that one man could have done anything to stop the tsunami of a One-World Government, but there was always the risk that his individuality and his inner power could inspire and foment a revolution. So keep him out of the way until it was impossible.
The weird rocket launch at the end? Dunno. Maybe # 1 was all about creating the N. W. O, but wanted no part of it for himself.
The Village being on the British Mainland the whole time? (the only way that weird truck could have driven to London)...er....
The brilliance of this ending is that my interpretation can be no more or less valid than others who saw the same thing, but interpreted it as something entirely different. Just like decades later, dinner discussions over the end of "Sopranos" went all the way through dessert, then single-malts....
I believe this was a prescient view of the "New World Order".
It appears to me that EVERYONE in the "Village" was there for #6. The whole joint was a set-up for him. Why? To get him out of the way. Temporarily.
They let him go. Why? Because everything was in place. The entire world had succumbed to the "New World Order"....the entire world had become the "Village".
If they broke him while they were keeping him out of the way, more power to them. If they didn't, who cares, when he got back to London, there would be nothing he could do about anything. Sure, it's kind of outlandish that one man could have done anything to stop the tsunami of a One-World Government, but there was always the risk that his individuality and his inner power could inspire and foment a revolution. So keep him out of the way until it was impossible.
The weird rocket launch at the end? Dunno. Maybe # 1 was all about creating the N. W. O, but wanted no part of it for himself.
The Village being on the British Mainland the whole time? (the only way that weird truck could have driven to London)...er....
The brilliance of this ending is that my interpretation can be no more or less valid than others who saw the same thing, but interpreted it as something entirely different. Just like decades later, dinner discussions over the end of "Sopranos" went all the way through dessert, then single-malts....