

(crying) I really hope you’re happy there. So, not going out? All work, no play, huh? Let’s take a look at that first call between Jules and George over the device: Also, that final scene of Jules and her daughter is real. Everything else that George has been doing in Japan is created by his consciousness as a coping mechanism and is not real. Only the flashbacks leading up to the car crash are real.
#The archive movie#
Which parts of the movie Archive are real? Over about 4 years, Jules has been visiting and chatting with George’s analogue consciousness. Since George was signed up for Archive, his consciousness is ported on to a device. Contrary to what the audience is made to believe, George dies, and Jules survives. On the ride where George tells Jules about his three-year research grant, they meet with an accident. George prefers driving his car, and he doesn’t trust the AI-powered auto-drive.
#The archive registration#
George probably cancels her registration but keeps his intact. Jules is furious when she gets to know that she, too, has been signed up and demands that it is cancelled. While Jules is against it, George goes ahead and registers them both. The Archive is a technology that can extract and store a dead person’s consciousness in analogue format to allow 200 hours of interaction with the deceased. He happens to receive three years of solid research with a deliverable prototype at the end of it, but the catch is that they need to move to Yamanashi, Japan. George is a robotics engineer, and he’s been looking to get a research grant. We have self-driving high-speed cars and technology that can extract and store the consciousness of dead people for years. George and Jules are a happy couple living in a future time Jules is pregnant with their child. Now let’s go through the movie’s events in chronological order to help understand the film better. Archive Movie Explained: Plot Walkthrough In the end, he realizes that he is the one who’s dead and hears his daughter say goodbye to him as this consciousness fades away. His consciousness cooks up an imaginary world where his pregnant wife died and where he’s been building versions of robots in Japan that can host his wife’s consciousness. Whether that is true or not, the guilt in George’s mind is real. He believes, had the car been on autopilot, it would have known to avert the accident.
#The archive manual#
George died with guilt in his mind because he was driving the car on manual mode. The facility, the robots (J1, J2, J3), Simone, the company, the project – none of it exists. Everything we’ve seen in the movie Archive is a construct of both location and events created by George’s consciousness. It is his consciousness that has been saved in analogue format, not Jules’.

The ending of the movie Archive shows us that George is the one who died in the car accident.
