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Significance of a scene where the villain's son is hit by a car


What was the significance of that and why was the villain crying by his car after the fact??? Scene felt weird to me.

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ain't it obvious?

he's crying after it because he's thinking about his hurt son and it's bothering him. not because he just made major threats towards the drunk driver.

as far as significance of the general scene... i think it shows how corrupt he's become to where he really has no limits on who he will hurt if he's hurt and while it was the guys 3rd DUI and you can see why he was so upset, as we all would be, he was taking the law into his own hands and using everything in his power to cause pretty extreme pain/suffering to others. because while the person obviously made a mistake and i could understand why he's so upset no one deserves that being done to them.

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Thanks, probably this was the intent. However I felt that crying like that was too out of character for him.
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Did you notice that was Cru Jones? Lol

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Who's Cru Jones?

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Bill Allen. He was Cru in that 80s BMX film called "Rad".

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Did you notice that was Cru Jones? Lol

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i think he was freaked out that he'd threatened the other guy's kids, along w/ what had happened to his son.

his character wasn't, imo, totally developed. he was two-faced to the world, there was the grievance w/ the hep a from the shot caller which contributed to him losing his family, but it didnt totally hang together.

that said, the writers' depiction that he had some internal conflict was an attempt, at least, to add some depth. nutty mean as he was, there was yet some conscience left within. it is hard to fathom that people who do great evil, are yet capable of good beyond simple utility, but that seems to be the case sometimes.

he was living in an us/them world, like the ss einsatzguppen/ustase/iron guard, racists, israeli settlers, company C at My Lai, you name it. it is evidently an easy pitfall for humanity..

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