What was the Meaning?


what was the significane of.....

1. the talking asian guy's head
2. the murder sucide of the asians
3. the number 666
4. the fast food worker and the nazi guy who kept saying they knew rose mcgowan's character
5. the gay sexual tension between the 2 dudes
6. the ending

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This is how I see it and I could be wrong:

1. the talking asian guy's head

- he's been killed and yet he's still concerned about running his business and he was owed six dollars and sixty-six cents and darned if he wasn't going to get that money and make a profit. This is simple black humor directed towards capitalist society - make a buck, even if it kills you and everyone around you. Profit is king.

2. the murder sucide of the asians

- this is more difficult to explain, but I think it's a jab at honor killings. The mother would rather her children die than go on living without a father. The humor lies in that the children were watching TV and seemed not to care about the violence that was occurring in reality. They were more interested in watching TV. I'm making the assumption that Araki is saying that death and violence surround us and yet we're more interested in what's on TV. So the mother killing the children is equally bizarre as the disconnect between reality and television reality.

3. the number 666

- I always took the 666 references to be a humorous take on the religious significance of evil and the Anti-Christ: what happens if a purchase at a gas station totals to 666? Does that signify the anti-Christ or is it just a number? In the context of the film I would say that the current generation views good and evil as just numbers, so 666 is just a number and nothing more. It becomes funny if you're familiar with organized religion.

4. the fast food worker and the nazi guy who kept saying they knew rose mcgowan's character

- there's a few things about this that are supposed to be funny and tragic: identity and individuality are prized, but because everyone seeks to copy or imitate someone or something else in an attempt to "be" whatever is hip, then no one is really themselves and hence the confused identity. Maybe Rose McGowan's character dressed the same way that someone else did and because she was trying so hard to be somebody else she got what she wanted, albeit the undesired and unwanted attention of others. Think about it in terms of dark humor: if you copy the look of someone else you get the look, yes, but what do you do when someone then assumes that you are the person whose look you're taking for yourself.

5. the gay sexual tension between the 2 dudes

- I think Araki was playing with the image of masculinity and how our culture is taught to view homosexuality and heterosexuality based on image and behavior and yet what we think we see may not be at all what's really going on.

6. the ending

- we know from the film that Xavier Red had killed people previously and so I don't think his character was really meant to be changed by Amy or Jordan, rather, he influenced them. On the contrast, Amy seemed to be the one who was fighting for an identity which would set her apart from the society which she obviously despised. By the end of the film Amy has become someone, she found her identity when she killed the guys in the hangar. What's the point of pondering an existence if said existence is just one continuous cycle of violence, sex and fast food?

For me the ending was the most satisfying part of the film because instead of talking, Amy simply remained quiet which, to me, indicated a difference in character. She's the not the same person she was in that she's not rebelling and yet she's also not looking for something like Jordan was. She simply is just like Xavier simply is.

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Dude your explanation on #4 blew my mind.

It's time I take a good look at the world I've created.

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I always assumed we were at least meant to wonder if those two guys (and the Parker Posey character, why leave her out?) all really did know Amy and she was just playing innocent. Going around town, giving everyone a different fake name, being the queen manipulator.

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Even love can be bad — that's the meaning of the movie.

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