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Did he really (slight spoiler)...

posted 14 years ago by allenap
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...aim at the tyres?

I would think so as to how shaken up he was about his miss.

[–] allenap 14 years ago

But would he not also feel even more shaken up if, in the heat of the moment, he had aimed at the crook, thereby placing the girlfriend in greater danger? If he had just aimed at the tyres, then why would he get SO upset (panic attacks and all) about something that really was almost purely an accident? Sure, he didn't really have to fire his gun in the first place, but if he had aimed for the tyres there wouldn't have been an intent to kill.

(Although in an earlier scene we do see that his first shot tends to be quite far off, so I'm not actually sure myself).

[–] ynisfre 14 years ago

I can't remember at this point if there was anything that made it clear one way or another. Certainly he insisted he aimed for the tires, but he could have been lying to himself. Either way it is believable that could be traumatized by the killing of a girl just along for the ride. Maybe we're just supposed to wonder if in the moment he acted rashly out of anger. It is sort of a central idea in the film overall.

[–] toddtw 14 years ago

Maybe it was because he was such a bad shot, that in that moment he was trying to prove himself in his mind. That he could hit and kill someone if he wanted to despite his failures at the shooting range. If he had the time to give it thought, I don't think he would have taken the shot though.

[–] Mikenaf123 14 years ago

From what I remember, he was an excellent shot at the shooting range. I think that was another of his psychological hang-ups, he failed in a real life situation, which he thinks other people can't understand and it gives him a complex, knowing that. He probably felt paranoid because people knew he was a good shot, and he thought people either looked at him as if he did it, or as if he didn't have what it takes to be a cop in the hard real life situations.

It's alot different shooting a gun at the range and pulling one out of your belt after you've had a gun pointed at you and ordered onto the concrete as a robber speeds away while your job is to stop him. His hands (at least mine would be) were probably shaking like a leaf.

[–] toddtw 14 years ago

I just watched those scenes again. When he's at the firing range, four of his shots were good but one was really off. During the scene where he shoots at the car, you can see his hands clearly shaking after the shots. So yeah, he really didn't have what it takes to be a cop and it was an unfortunate way of finding that out.

[–] getmey 11 years ago

whether he aimed at the tire or shot to kill is difficult for me to say, but i was pissed off by his being so sissy about it through out the movie. I felt the director was overdoing his reactions so make us viewer have sympathy for his mistake of taking a life thereby bringing the story to its conclusion that revenge was not the answer.

[–] lamont-hard 10 years ago

I too felt his reactions were over the top. I guess they wanted to place the two men in a side by side comparison. One would bring the wife to organism while the husband was a frustrated lover. One handle the death as a bad accident with remorse the other almost had a breakdown. One is fertile the other is possibly impotent or just maybe to uptight to get the job done. In the end they become equal as one gets a child to move on from the death of the robber and the other gives a pass to help him do this.