What's with the ending?
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At the end she has her head down and her eye is purple. I don't get it. What's with that? Does anyone get it.
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It means that the reason she's been trying to get away from her husband is that he's not just jealous, but also abusive (something the Forrest Whitaker character had assured the driver was not the case). When the driver sees this, he decided he doesn't want to work for the Mickey Rourke character any more.
shareIsn't Rourke a wifebeater in real life? If he is, it certainly seems strange to me that he would assume such a role
shareI don't think Mickey Rourke is a wifebeater...but I really don't know. Even so he is an actor, taking a role. No matter what simiilarities or differences it takes from himself. Anyway, that's how I see it.:)
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"His first marriage, to an actress, was over fairly quickly while his second, to the model Carrie Otis, ended in 1996 after he was charged with spousal abuse." (http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/interviews/article80723.ece)
I've seen this come up a couple times. I don't think it was like a compulsive, over-and-over again deal, but im pretty sure it did happen. And not to rationalize it any, but the dude was all screwed up drinking and partying and all hot-blooded boxer, and from everything else i read, she wasn't really a straight arrow either (heroin, etc.) The best way I've heard it described was they were madly in love and horrible for each other.
As odd as Mickey Rourke Playing an actor who beat his wife is a lil uncomfortable, keep in mind Woody Harrelson played Mickey Knox, while in real life, his father was a convicted murderer.
"Worth dying for. *BANG* Worth killing for. *BANG* Worth going to Hell for. *BANG* Amen."
I actually suspected that the bruises were caused by Rourke BECAUSE of the Driver's spying...
Rourke didn't like what he was hearing from the Driver about what his wife was up to, so he was beating her up.
Then the Driver sees the bruise, realizes what his spying has caused, and tells Forest never to call him again.
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