Significance of bottle smashing

[3d-aholic]

Your overanalyzing a simple metaphor.
Nothing about that is going to lead you to understand the story.

Jacob is Jacob...he's not a cork.
The Island is an Island...its not a bottle.
And Smokie is smokie....he's not wine.

Your not suppose to take a metaphor and analyze to this level of detail.

Ok, so Smokie is wine so Paul Masson will sell no wine before its time...so that means Smokie is not ready for sale?...or does that mean Smokie has turned to vinegar? Perhaps Smokie started out as Champaign and became wine because he couldn't be released? Forget it. Seriously...its a metaphor...thats it.

[Lost in Translation]

With the island submerged underwater, maybe we have been looking into a snowglobe of some sort all this time!

[3d-aholic]

As Smokie says...
Its an island...thats it!

But thats my thoughts on it.

[jackstraw]

It could have been any metaphor to get the point across. But the point I'm making is that this metaphor is specifically showing that the island is what is keeping the MIB trapped--not Jacob. And this may be proved by the fact that Jacob is dead but MIB is still trapped. The island needed to be protected all these years not for the sake of the island, but to imprison MIB. But the loophole that MIB needs may be that he can still get off the island without destroying the island at all. And I believe the metaphor of his smashing the bottle is showing just that.

The bottle metaphor is also shown in the beginning of this season when we see Richard building a ship in a bottle. Scenes like this are not coincidence.