Tattoos out of place

I thought it seemed out of place, too. Jim just didn't strike me as the type of guy to have tattoos.

His tattoos were definitely out of place, given the character he was playing. There is actually not that much difference between the 1990s and the present time. Rather, it depends largely on your ethnic and social background and also profession. It would be fine (now and back then) if the film character was in the armed forces, entertainment business, or professional sports. But a schoolteacher?! Tattoos might be fine with Angelina Jolie, but if you are a female schoolteacher you don't want your body to look like a roadmap.


I admit that I don't know any schoolteacher with tattoos - except perhaps small, inconspicuous ones in places you would seldom be able to see. Jim's tattoos in the film were not only huge, but he had what appeared to be Chinese characters covering one entire forearm. You may think that putting on strange foreign language characters is "cool", but it would definitely be unwise if you know nothing about the language. The words might well mean "I'm a bad guy" or even something obscene.