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I know this wasn't a revenge movie, but...

posted 8 years ago by symphonyjade
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I'm not ashamed to admit I would have loved to have seen that tosser, The Limey, get his ar$e summarily kicked. He was so casual about the awful things he was doing to Lucy and those other chaps. A bit of a comeuppance would not have gone amiss there.

This movie was not the best nor the worst, but I can't help wondering if a film with a transcendent concept such as this didn't deserve more than a garden variety villain. Perhaps it was to highlight the gulf between what he is and what the main protagonist becomes.

[–] gladoscake 8 years ago

I assume you are referring to the 'British' gentlemen with the smug face?

Yeah, he would of deserved it, trafficking a human being like that is just wrong, same with the Korean gang.

I think that was the point it was trying to make, most movies have a good guy facing a bad guy, but Lucy was absent of good or bad, and thus she was higher than her captors by recognizing through her Universal perspective on Life that revenge is pointless, and they were just ignorant and blinded by profit, materialism, War, pain, and in a way Lucy did get her own 'revenge' in a sense, though her human ego that would of wanted nothing more to get payback was gone, she attained the knowledge of the Universe in the end, and all Mr Jang got in the end was a bullet to the chest, he died, while Lucy became immortal.

[–] symphonyjade 8 years ago

Good analysis, gladoscake. In terms of motivation, purpose, endgame, Jang and Lucy were chalk and cheese. As for The Limey (for some reason the writers chose to give him that description and no actual character name), he may actually be even less evolved than Jang.