Ending

What difference does getting rid of the coins make? The uncle would still have kept chasing them. Presumably the boy thought he would die at his uncle's hands, and wanted to screw him over beforehand.

1) Of course the ending pissed you off at the end. Should it have pissed you off at the beginning?

2) The kids were not running solely to keep their uncle from getting the coins.

3) The younger brother obviously had a lot of practice in concealing his Pica. And it's not like these kids had even a little bit of supervision, so it wasn't that hard. They knew he had an illness that influenced his appetite, but they didn't have the financial or medical resources to have him properly diagnosed & treated.

4) The uncle was not hot on their heels the entire time. Obviously this story was spread out over months & months.

5) The uncle couldn't take his own car because they had chucked his keys, but he did obtain another car of his own. Remember it breaking it down & him having it fixed?

6) It obviously wasn't his master plan to drop the coins in the river. They meant something to his father, & they were all the boys had left of him. At the end, he knew his uncle wasn't going to give up until he was dead, so dropping the coins in front of him was the perfect final F U.

I didn't mind the ending with him throwing the coins in the water, I felt like by him doing that he made good with the reaper and was on his plus-side cause you only need 1 golden coin to avoid Hades and he threw like 30 in the water...

And I felt like the movie suggested that that is why Jamie Bell was able to come back from the dead after Josh Lucas had drowned him...

And at the end of the day this movie is not about pulling a heist to get the big score, it's about family...

One thing I didn't get was the little brother popping the balloon right before the credits showed tho, felt like that meant something as well

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Hey CGIMBD great summing up of this film. I started watching it and liked how real it was. No rich obnoxious, bratty kids spoiled by permissive parents just showed us extreme poverty and hard work and how a young man protects his brother trying like hell to survive in redneck country with no assistance.

I missed popping the balloon. Was he blowing it up and it popped? That would mean he had the ability to do it as he could never quite blow it up before.