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Red Leather Thug Chick...Meaning?

posted 17 years ago by JDHOPPER66
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(First, let me say if you hated this movie please PrivateMessage me and I'll set you straight and make you understand True Art while enabling you to still enjoy big dumb action movies. The World needs both.)
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OKAY, that said...
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What is the meaning of the Thug Chick at the airport who punches Beatrice in the stomach? It can't just be a weird-ha-ha, isn't-NY-crazy scene...it's something else, DISGUISED as a weird-isnt-NY-crazy scene.
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Anyone? I've got my own ideas, but I want to hear some other viewers' theories...

[–] jdperry-2 17 years ago

I think maybe to establish Beatrice's inherent empathy. She can look at this person who physically attacked her, and see a person hurting and in trouble and in need of help. Later, it is not so difficult a jump then for her to see the montster's pain in spite of the harm he did her.

[–] offfan1 17 years ago

Exactly.

[–] freesharon 16 years ago

Very good point. Add that to the 6 months of emotional distance from her own loss that the plane crash/recovery supplies and it is much easier to understand/believe her empathy for her lover's killer.

"There are three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth." ~ Robert Evans

[–] willd2283 16 years ago

I'm still going to have to say the dope fiend chick at the airport is still used to make comparisons between the monster and other people who are destructive. She was used in the same way all the other things that prolonged Beatrice's trip to Iceland in the first place. Probably trying to point out that there are monsters in this world?.

[–] freesharon 16 years ago

Also a good point. One of the things I like best about these ambiguous movies is that more than one useful meaning can be associated with each odd moment, giving depth to whatever interpretation resonates for each viewer. The 'monsters among us' truth is reinforced by the later attack (on the street) of the 'true' 'monster' by a gang of every-day people.

"There are three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth." ~ Robert Evans