At the end, after Julio is killed and the main character escapes in the woods he kills that especially violent gangster while he's like adjusting his socks or something, and then turns and kills someone else behind him but is that just the body of Deitrich? Is this part a hallucination induced by his epilepsy? Some thoughts on this would be appreciated, this is a brilliant thriller and it is very sad that the filmmaker has passed on.
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'his disease as metaphor' is an excellent thought. I agreed with your other points except about his total insensitivity to others. While I believe you are mostly correct, I did feel that he cared when he saw her bruises and that he showed caring when he drove her,returned to give her a ride home, and when he told her that her husband was not ever returning.
I too felt that the heist actually happened. My main response to those who feel that he imagined all the heist adventure, is : why would he have imagined a heist where he made a number of mistakes? That doesn't make sense to me. He felt that he could design the perfect heist and so if he imagined the casino heist, it would have been a perfect heist as well.
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Ummm, no. He was imagining himself killing the gangster. And then he does it. That's all they show. Remember how the film shows his imagining of the hesits while he tells about the plan. This is all that happens here.
"They put a gun in your face, you still have a choice." -Jack Foley
I got the impression that from the time he got home from the museum until that last scene back in the studio, was his imagination.In the last scene we see the steer skull and then the dog. I cant imagine he left all the money behind and only brought home the skull and a half wild dog. Everything was wrapped up tight in his fantasy and he came back down to earth and went back to work.
sharehey you know, that's actually a really cool interpretation. Thanks for bringing it up, it gives it a new dimension for me
shareAll the movie is an imagination.
Think about it, all the Parallelism between his life in teh city and the wild...I'll leave it there, think about whatever repeats in both places, with small changes!
What about the role of women?
-He had problems with his wife...In fact he decided to go with his "friend" when his wife left him.
-He tells his "friend" that he knows he beats his wife too...And his "friend's" wife took some pills to commit suicide (that's why his "friend" left).
-The young woman was beaten by her husband (Ditricht)...and finally she lefts.
I think that there are more "hints" about the plot being just his imagination...
But to tell you the truth there are indeed some other points where you can think that all these actually happened...
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