Which character do you identify with the most?
I like to think I'm the most like Charlie. As the hero of the story, he suffers in silence while having to watch his ex-girlfriend stolen from him by some Yank *beep* just because he has more money. I can't identify with David, the cuckold who marries a woman way out of his wimpy league, but who doesn't love him. Amy is clearly in love with Charlie. It's obvious when during the attack on the house, when Charlie assures her that he won't let any of them hurt her, and she tries to run to Charlie, but David yanks her back by the hair. David is more of a rapist in that scene than Charlie was during his rape scene. Also when she is attacked by Scutt, it is Charlie who she cries out for, not David. She seems very upset when Charlie dies and probably wishes it was David instead. Even Peckinpah agreed that David was the real villian of the story. The sex scene between Amy and Charlie is way hotter and erotic than her scenes with David. There is no spark at all between Amy and David. Charlie uses some force against Amy but it is necessary to get what they both want in their hearts. Amy is just being a child, indecisive and coy. Charlie is just confronting her childishness by forcing the issue. Sometimes we all have to do something like that when a woman doesn't know what she wants, so you have to force her make up her mind by doing it for her. Be a man and take the lead.
But in this love triangle I'm afraid I'm really the Scutt. Scutt is the poor average guy looking on from the outside. Between David and Charlie, he realizes that he has no chance, the poor guy. He snaps and gets violent under the pressure. Scutt isn't admirable but he's sympathetic and easy to identify with.
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