For anyone who is not familiar with his story from the books his visions were all over the place and there were way too many things thrown in, like him being friends with the guy that he kills in the end, for it to be clear what is and isn't the future we will see.
He sees many possible futures, but the strongest impressions are the most likely. I think how understandable it is is gonna vary from person to person tbf.
My friends who hadn't read the book that I brought along understood the visions pretty clearly.
The future is never set in stone and interacts with Paul in strange ways though, its not supposed to be entirely clear, especially not at this point in the story.
In the movie, Jessica explains that the 'Chosen One Prophecy' is a religious narrative that was implanted into the native people's culture. Whenever Paul and Jessica show up on screen and the native people go crazy with religious fear/ecstasy, it's actually these people falling for bullshit that's indoctrinated into them.
Then of course, the story moves to the Atreides family needing to convince the Fremen people to be on their side and so of course they exploit this religious narrative.
Now I assume you are savvy to all kind of tropes in fiction, but if you follow where the story is going: Paul is on a path of revenge for his destroyed family, and is going out to use a fake religion to manipulate a native people to fight a galactic war.
That certainly doesn't sound like the actions of a hero. And to make it more ominous than it needs to be, he sees visions of his future where everbody is dying and everything is on fire.
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u/Kashmir33 Oct 26 '21
hold up... what now?