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allen as a gangbanger SPOILERS


when he mentioned something about being able to control the urge to be in a gang and fight, but not to masturbate, do you think it was like bart simpson promising to pick up and quit smoking because "its the hardest thing he'll ever do?

i mean was it a distraction to pretend he was getting better as a person to joy, or he really did those things?

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I know this reply is way way late but I thought I would comment anyways because I was thinking the same thing during the opening scene. Allen never showed any signs that he was into any of that kind of thing in the first film, the only deviant things we see him do are drinking to much making obscene phone calls. On one hand I got the impression that he was lying or at least trying to make himself look better in Joys eyes by exaggerating his struggles so that it seemed like Joy had helped him to overcome more then he actually had. On the other hand its been 10 years between the start of the film and where we left the characters in the last one, so I suppose its possible that he picked up all these behaviors in the time span between films. It kind of makes me wonder how they met. Was Allen the man Joys sister was trying to set her up with at the end of Happiness? If not maybe Allen really did do those things and they met through Joys work with ex cons. I really wish this film had gone on longer. So many unanswered questions.

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