Winter Attack


Why did Winter flip out and attack the narrator in the restaurant? I had to watch it at work with the volume wicked low so I couldn't hear a lot of the dialogue but that just seemed so sudden.

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theres no reason explicibly (sic?) stated.

i reckon winter started to hate the narrator because he was young and free, and winter is being forced to grow up


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That makes sense. I liked the disconnect between what the narrator saw of Winter's life and what Winter was going through internally. Growing up is just kind of a pain in the A$$ for everybody but it really is just harder for some than it is for others.

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not trying to be some pseudo intellectual, but i definitely feel like winter's brother obviously got to his head about how *beep* the state their town was in and that none of the kids seemed to care and were just oblivious to the fact that they were living in a second world country, perhaps he just got fed up with the ignorance? nvm this sounds pretty dumb, but i would go with the former explanation

"So this is permanence... love's shattered pride..."

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I thought it had something to do with the girl. With those long leers and looks between her and the narrator's teenage character. I'm probably wrong, but that was my assumption. Male friends as close as these two can just drift apart, but violence that severe is usually brought on by a girl...

I got the gist of the movie from the music video of "The Suburbs," and was anticipating a definitive answer as to why Winter decided to go ballistic on his former best friend...apparently teenage angst knows no bounds

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Winter was being transformed by the local circumstances and the external ones. His brother vision, the war, the media portrayed by the television all of this brought winter under a pin of current-isolation. He was diverging from his friends path. His temperament, initially, in the video is very quiet and reserved which may point to his later outrage when he bursts into his ex-friends work to beat him up. The burst of the lid as it flew open gave a torrent to his emotions out in the open. As you can see, in the next frame he fell to his knees in cries.There's a dissonance between who he use to be and what he is becoming, a strife conflict under the pressures of both his brother and the circumstances of the world he lives in.

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