Moral of the story

SPOILERS

i took it that the killing of the hooker was in his head, like the devil, the little girl, the demons, etc...

There is no indication that Jamie ascends to heaven. To the contrary, in death he is burning. It is only that Jamie sees beauty through wisdom as he is dying. We receive no indication that Jamie, in the throes of death, is seeing a heavily body aside from the blue sky.

I, too, think that part was all in his head. If that is the case there, is there any significance to him taking home a gay hustler? It was just a strange and jarring scene for me.

As an aside, I think it was both the funniest and most unsettling scene in the entire film. I think it has to do with the actor who played the gay hustler really. The way he delivered his lines and acted around Jamie was absolutely brilliant (Yucca... *bleh*). When he is negotiating his rate and adds in money for a "ka-bab and cab fare" I nearly lost it. Also, when he is telling him about the difference between inside and outside touches and the little girl is like, "Inside touch Jamie! You can kill him there!!" and Jamie is like, " Yea, yea... inside is good!" LOL

Really, what kind of prostitute lets some sketchy weirdo wrap them totally up in plastic wrap for 150 bucks?? His reaction when Jamie suddenly takes out the knife was classic, too. Like you didn't see *that* coming? Then it goes from comical to totally horrifying when "Heartless" proceeds to (in not-so-subtle symbolism) remove the hustler's heart with a knife while he is still alive. The way he was squirming around like a bug in a spider web before getting carved like a turkey was so unsettling.

Which part of the movie made it look like he was getting into heaven? I missed it.

He made a deal with the devil and in his last moments he realized how no matter how he looked people learned to love him, but he was a twatty goth kid.