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SPOILER: Just want to confirm...

posted 10 years ago by Jones-88-968308
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I must be getting old and slow... I enjoyed the film and agree with the rating on IMDB and many of the comments in this form, positive and negative... the plot had a lot going for it (especially Pearce and his partner Pattinson - who my wife actually looked up to see if he was REALLY retarded, love that)... it also had a lot of holes...

...anyway, my question. At the end, it WAS a dog in the trunk, right? After all that trouble, it wasn't just about the car, it was about the dog in the trunk?

If you view the Pearce character from a rational perspective, you will never understand his motivations. BUT, view him from a psychopathic perspective and he makes perfect sense. From the first encounter with the gun toting gang (he walks right up to throttle the old guy without fear of the Henry-character's shotgun) to the fierce devotion to a dog and never mind how many people get killed to resolve his conflict, he makes sense.

[–] eighteen_percent_gray 10 years ago

If you've ever had a loved pet die on you, you would understand his motivation. Consider the atmosphere, worse than the wild wild west. He started off a little angry and it got worse with each new obstacle. If they had let him have the car back, we'd have no movie.

You do know there are people trying to get dead bodies back from war zones, as far back as Vietnam and Korea. You can't rest until they are buried with respect and mourned at home.

"Now are we sure. that this. is what. we want?"

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[–] eighteen_percent_gray 9 years ago

Yes but you're not living in his world. He has already killed people and burying his dog was the only human inclination he had left and he needed to honor it.

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[–] eighteen_percent_gray 9 years ago

People can be worn down. Being in a situation where you feel you need to kill someone would knock the stuffing out of me. The fact that he held on to this one loyalty makes me think he had a lot of humanity to begin with and at least some left. He also managed to bond with Rey (the king) which shows that if you have any humanity at all, you can still function as a human being.

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[–] borchers34 9 years ago

It was all about loyalty. His wife was not loyal and cheated on him resulting in him murdering her and her lover. The dog was the only thing from before the collapse that he still had that was truly loyal to him. He did not care if he lived or died anymore (as shown when he walks right up to the gang members aiming the gun at him). All he wanted was to bury his dog, which was the only remaining good thing in his life.

Pearce started to see Rey as loyal (much like his dog as he is semi-retarded) when he came back and saved him from the Army guys. Granted, the dialogue is minimal but the fact that Pearce gets out of his car (once they found it again) to help Rey is telling. It is Pearce realizing he needs to help him as he has been as loyal to him as his dog was.

My 2 cents.

No f@cking sh`t lady does it sound like I'm ordering a pizza!

[–] fat-squirrel1 10 years ago

I watched it over two nights and was never paying too much attention.
At the end of the film I was wondering where the dog came from. I thought maybe he had killed it and I'd missed it. But yes, of course, you're right. He wanted the car back so he could bury his dog. Aww.

[–] Gary-161 10 years ago

I presume the title is a play on words as Rover is a common dog's name.

[–] chilone (17309) 6 years ago

Common? Really? I've NEVER encountered a dog named Rover.

[–] acidraindrop (3055) 2 years ago

A simple google search demonstrates that the word rover is in fact, associated with dogs, if only because of Microsoft.

I also found the title clever for this reason.

[–] chilone (17309) 2 years ago

I'm glad you to a 3 year old post about a movie I don't remember.