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Thanks for posting your ideas -- I like that interpretation too

As 'odd' as the whole chase scene is, I think it really works and is incredibly powerful emotionally

I thought the scene where John brought flowers for Emily (and then hid behind the monument when he saw her mother) was also very sweet and touching

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Good answers but this is my interpretation -> Booth didn't want to die at the moment of the final confrontation. After all, he sprang on Freddie with a weapon. But I think he had contemplated and perhaps accepted facing death for his crime - partly dictated by both reason and suicidal tendencies for his genuine guilt. But something interesting happens. Freddie takes the gun out and gives Booth the chance to shoot, pretending like its a game of best man wins.

Now, I would have shot Freddie if I didn't feel like I deserved to die, but Booth didn't kill him (proving his willingness to let Freddie decide his fate). But Freddie really DID want Booth to kill him as an act of suicide. Then Booth, realizing that Freddie does indeed want to die, doesn't grant him this cowardly out and runs.

Freddie chases him and shoots Booth out of emotional desperation. But Booth, on the ground looking like a helpless hunted animal, causes Freddie to lose his will to kill Booth as he realizes how entirely displaced his anger is and has been. Simultaneously, Freddie has also suddenly and unwittingly forgiven Booth. But he isn't consciously aware of it until his has a catharsis by witnessing Booth's courage to show his contrition through his sorrow over Freddie's daughter's grave.

POWERFUL SCENE MAN - yes, I got chocked up and I'm a grown man. The haters of this film are merely rejecting the idea of having to relate to the unthinkable sorrow that really can happen to people. And witnessing the power of forgiveness gives you incredible faith in humanity and is a very rewarding experience.

I THOUGHT he said, "Your daddy's coming - he needs your help." My take on the scene was that Booth probably couldn't have been nailed down to one specific reason why he went there. It was like looking for forgiveness, closure (he went to go to her grave before but ran away when he saw her mum); and yeah, partly if he felt it was death that was coming for him (at his house he obviously decided that he didn't want to have killed TWO members of the same family), in the same vein as people saying 'I didn't want to die alone' and remembering back to the painfully touching scene he described earlier of Em's final words to him, he wanted to die near her. It's probably something that needs to be THAT broad and all encompassing, rather than for a specific reason. And yeah - I don't tear u0p and movies much, and a lot of this movie was a bit slow, but that final scene ... ack. :/