frank covering up Jason's prank
I am guessing that frank covered up the prank that Jason pulled with fry in order to prevent him from going to juvie despite Ben ended up in a coma.
shareThat's the way I saw it.
Also, when Jason Bateman comes to the door and confronts the father and son, Dixon (Frank Grillo) justifies the fact that the son Bateman's son tried to hang himself. He does not try to reason with Frank or admit his son's guilt.
I liked it when Bateman decked Frank. He really won that fight in many ways.
..this is what makes this movie realistic and scarey in many ways. When people find out their kids or a friend they know did something bad, they want to cover it up for them naturally. Coz they don't want to be the ones to rat them out or turn them in.
..plus his dad was in such a tough spot, he tried to teach his kid right from wrong and obviously lectured and chewed him out, but he knew he could try to make it go away on the lap top. And that was his first mistake, he compromised what he stood for as an ex cop, and what he did at his job.
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But remember, he tried to cover what his son did AFTER reading what the messages between his kid and Bateman's character. I think he felt a little bit of guilt too for not being a great father to his son. He might have even felt partially responsible.
shareThis is the only thing that didn't sit right with me. I thought the cop/detective was a decent, honorable guy until that point (he even defends Bateman's kid when confronting his own son). I can't believe he would just try to cover up his tracks like that, and then lash out at Bateman when he's caught (I suppose out of sheer embarrassment). It really makes me interested in what happens after that confrontation, and if anything ever really gets "resolved" to a satisfying degree -- after all, nothing really matters unless the kid wakes up.
Great use of "On The Nature Of Daylight" when Bateman clocks the kid with the hockey stick, though. Those slow-mo sequences really hit home.
I'm right with you on that! I thought the detective was a great guy until he covered up his sons tracks. I can't say I totally blame him though. What made it worse for me was when he says to Bateman "your kid tried to kill himself." I was like HELL YEAH when Bateman punched through the door. I thought the detective turnee into a total arse but I guess he was just sticking up for his own blood. He slightly made up for it by helping Bateman up after the fight when everyone kinda realized that fighting wasn't helping anything.
And the slomo scenes you mentioned were just fantastic!! Loved the ending to this amazimg movie! I gave it 9/10.
This is a slightly silly point to make for such a profound film, but I think more films should find ways to use scenes of people punching other people out through screen doors. It always rocks.
shareblood is thicker than water after all. it may be the right thing to do but if it's your offspring on the line you're gonna do whatever it takes to protect them. am just glad he didnt decoy Boyd's dad when he told the other guy to stand down at their target's doorstep.
shareWell I thought that the father was a pretty terrible person himself. Other than when he gave the guy back his money he was a pretty awful character in my opinion. From telling his son how stupid people are online to get deceived and robbed to just how he treated his son.
It's no surprise that he would defend and protect his evil spawn. Most parents have crappy kids because they are crappy people themselves so it would be an automatic response to help cover it up.
I saw it as realistic. A father would do anything to protect their kids. Part of me even expected that he'd try to frame himself so that he would take his son's place so that his son wouldn't go to jail. I also wouldn't call Jason the evil one - his friend was. Jason was just a kid who started a prank, found someone that he connected with, tried to cover it up, and was manipulated by his friend. Jason's friend is the one who had him send the picture to everyone, wanted to delete all evidence without anyone caring about it, and never showed any sense of remorse about it. Whereas Jason already learned his lesson by the time his dad yelled at him.
shareI totally agree with Wolverine. As a father he was horrified by what his son had done but still wanted to protect him as most parents would do. I think the son knew what he had done wrong, hence him going to the hospital. I think it's realistic and sad and tragic and probably happens more often that we would think. Kids don't think and a stupid mistake could turn tragic. I don't think the son meant for things to get to that level in any way.
I think that Jason's remark about his dad being a bad father had to do something with the cover up. The cop might have been a good person in general, but he lacked one thing that almost every person in the movie lacked: connection with the people that are close to us. He seemed kind enough to his customers (who were complete strangers until they hired him), but observe his behavior towards his own son. When Jason confessed that he doesn't like him as a father, guilt kicked in. Because of guilt of being a bad parent he wanted to make it up to his son and at that moment the best choice in his opinion was to shield him with whatever was in his power.
He didn't strike me as the person who would abuse that kind of power (the various data recovery and deletion programs), but any power can be abused if there is motivation strong enough behind it.
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Yeah honestly I think this was a bit typical. The cop was a sterotype "tough guy" who tells his son that if you want to "*beep* with somebody you do it to their face".
Then he covers his son's back and insults the father right to his face, claiming his own kid "had a problem".
I suppose all the characters are meant to be relatable in some way, but this guy really lost me...