Why Roy didn't kill Adam (weird van conversation)
When Roy told Adam that he didn't kill him for the same reason that Adam didn't kill the girl, was there something being implied, or am I just over thinking it?
shareAdam couldn't kill the girl simply because he couldn't bring himself to end her life. Roy seemed to me to be at a point in his life where he had had enough of killing. He was losing the detachment which enabled him to be able to kill. Roy was returning to a state, like Adam, of attachment. The very first thing Roy said to Adam was, "Don't use my name again." He didn't want to form any kind of attachment to Adam given the ultimate intended fate of Adam.
The fact of Roy's daughter's wedding may have been the catalyst which made him reattach with humanity. Weddings symbolise the beginnings of new life. Roy's daughter getting married implied grandchildren on the horizon. Perhaps it was this which made Roy re-evaluate his profession. Spending time with the niaive Adam, probably of a similar age to his own daughter, helped him see the value in life.
Right on Piston...I couldn't have said it better myself! (*˘︶˘*)
"Ain't life grand" ;)
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Brilliantly put. I couldn't have said it better myself either... except, the second time around when Adam talked about not killing the Girl, he confessed that he didn't kill her coz he fancied her, and Roy didn't contradict his earlier comment about not killing him for the same reason Adam didn't kill her which led me to suspect that Roy was actually gay/bi and he fancied Adam. I might be reading too much into that notion but it almost felt like an allusion to Tim Roth's Mr Orange character from Reservoir Dogs (who was also shot in the stomch in that film's denouement) and his purported 'homosexual' attraction to Harvey Keitel's Mr White.
shareBrains...I thought that very same thing about Roy when Adam asked why he didn't kill him...Roy's expression certainly seemed to imply that he was gay/bi. I'm still not sure what to think about that part.
"Ain't life grand"