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THE WHOLE STORY OF SIMON
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This is everything we really learned about Simon in the movie, from someone who saw it multiple times! Full analysis, YES, includes spoilers.

There are four main scenes on which I base this analysis: the flashback during the concussion, the flashback when he falls asleep at the control panel, the storm of voices after he regains contact with Ava and she sends him to retrieve the black box, and finally, the final sequence.

In what I perceive as the order of events, Simon was born on a planet, not on the Eden station. In the storm of voices, we hear his mother say, "Come on, he has a tree! It'll be like being at home. Simon, don't be like that," implying that he moved to Eden at a young age.

In the flashback scene with the tree, we see the planets disappearing in real time before their eyes. The young actor playing Simon is then the same age he was when the Rapture occurred. An interesting detail is that in the game, no one was actually looking at the planets and stars when they vanished, so this is a divergence between the film and the game, reinforcing Szymanski's point about them being different continuities.

Shortly after that, Eden Station spawned a defeatist death cult, probably because they had the last remaining living trees and plants. Simon's mother joined, so he joined too; after all, he was just a child, listening to the adults in his life. Furthermore, I find it interesting that the voices at the end say his mother wouldn't recognize him after he became a killer, and then, in the same breath, say that death was all she taught him.

We know that Eden has a religious/spiritual motive, with that preaching Father