'I really wanted you'
Why did the Devil want that guy? That made no sense to me, at all. I understand that he wanted the souls and all of that, but why was that guy so important that the Devil had to specify that He really WANTED him?
shareCuz that guy was a murderer, and not just an insurance scammer or a street thug.
shareI think because he was a good guy really, but had one incidence of bad luck other than the rest of them who knowingly and willingly committed the acts they did. The devil wants to postulate the idea that all people are evil and rotten and wanted him to believe that about himself.
shareGood answer.
share^^This.
"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna `*beep*` wit' me!" Hudson in Aliens.
Well thought out. That's further than I got.
shareDid you see all of the beer cans in his car? That's not "bad luck"; that's manslaughter. Well, except in California... there it's considered slightly worse than jaywalking.
shareManslaughter is still not murder. A child playing with a ball in the middle of a road is stupid, and manslaughter if the child is hit. Then again, if the driver swerved off the road it is still manslaughter on the child. Neither action was intended to end the life of another. In the case of alcoholism, collateral damage is likely a better term. Drunks are killing themselves, but often kill another.
shareBut that's not evil, per se. That's just stupidity.
shareIt WAS bad luck. Not a car or person for miles, then he reaches down for the beer and he hits someone.
I'm not saying it wasn't stupid, but it can both be bad luck and stupidity.
yet he just happened to kill the wife and child of the detective who would be involved - years later - investigating the murders in the elevator all around him ... I think it's Fate or Karma, and is the traditional circular Shyamalan story.
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It WAS bad luck. Not a car or person for miles, then he reaches down for the beer and he hits someone.
I'm not saying it wasn't stupid, but it can both be bad luck and stupidity.
This.
"I'm the ultimate badass,you do NOT wanna f-ck wit me!"Hudson,Aliens😬 share
I agree...plus his death would fuel the despair in the detective making him a future devils advocate or suicide.
sharevery good answer 'ss5mmyers'
well said!!!! ss5mmyers
shareI agree that it was because he was a good guy. We should remember, however, that he was not _just_ a good guy who made one bad decision. He was a soldier in Afghanistan, and he implied during the conversation that he saw people dying before, so it is likely that he was in active combat and possible that he did kill someone before (at war). Which is arguably an act committed knowingly and willingly, although beyond a doubt for a cause, as opposed to evil acts committed by other people in the elevator.
So, he was not an angel who made one bad life choice. He had a complicated story and thus might have been a particularly interesting case to the Devil. We can speculate about it further. Perhaps the Devil wanted to see if the challenges that soldiers face somehow corrupt their souls or a man can stay pure through an experience of killing others at war.
The detective in this situation is also tried by the Devil: he is capable of killing but can choose to forgive and stay pure.
It was implied that the street thug had murdered as well when we hear him say that it takes a few hours for the eyes to close after they are dead.
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