u/fleetze

Hearts in Atlantis (movie) is adapted from the Stephen King novella Low Men in Yellow Coats. Ted Brautigan was a powerful psychic known as a breaker. He was imprisoned in End-World with other psychics and forced to help the Crimson King. The wider dark tower universe is really cool if you've never dived into it.

Anyways Ted escapes to earth and finds room and board with a mother and son, Bobby. Ted and Bobby become friends and at one point Ted recounts a story to Bobby about a football game that Bobby's own father also happened to be attending. Bobby doesn't have many memories of his father since he passed when he was young.

https://youtu.be/\_ipim87VPWE?si=lnHzDV30YpW7-s7b

While it's possible he was there at the same game at the time, the way it's told and the way Ted seems impacted by the telling it's as if he's there present as the moment was happening and feeling everyone's emotions. I don't think Ted was physically at the game at all and was remotely viewing it so that Bobby could have a good memory of his father.

While imprisoned in Algul Siento Ted was the chief breaker and was known as an amplifier, increasing the potency of other breakers. I think he would've been powerful enough to do this and the shine is a bit vague in the Dark Tower universe anyways. If you're preloaded with this info and just watched the scene, you might think this theory is obvious but I haven't heard anyone else mention it so I thought I would add it here.