What the hell was JJ's reasoning for being on the roof? Did they even really give a reason? And yes, I did watch it. Perhaps it went over my head but it feels like they left it ambiguous? Was his room a hint that he was the lonely one? I didn't get it.
shareJJ was a depressed, failed musician. It was mentioned in the film.
JJ didn't have one big reason. I think life in general was just wearing him down. I think when he swims in the ocean he was planning on killing himself but changed his mind... The newspaper cuttings I think were his way of trying to find a reason but he didn't actually know.
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He was just suffering from depression. A lot of people who are depressed don't have reasons, it's just how they feel. That's the saddest bit. And that's why they can't "snap out of it".
You heart me? What is that? Is that like I love you for pussies?
In the book, JJ was a failed musician who wasn't in a band anymore and his girlfriend left him, and he felt that if he wasn't playing music than he had nothing in his life.
The film left it more just at he's depressed and he couldn't articulate a "good" reason.
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He was depressed and felt like he had nothing to live for.Liberate tu temet ex inferis.
pro ego sum diabolus, pro ego sum nex.
Man, I don't consider myself to be depressed, but when JJ was standing on the edge of that roof explaining how he felt, I could really relate. I cried like a baby.
"That's the thing, Martin. I didn't lie to you. I don't know. And that makes my reason better than yours...
So you can solve your problems, but me, I can't. ....
Oh my god, look, I'm just, I'm just tired of, uhh, of being scared all of the time, not knowing why. I'm tired of being...trying, trying to change all of the time, and not knowing how. Leaving my latest *beep* band...moving countries...because no matter how much I do... change, I'm left with me."
Yep, made me cry.