Who else thought the surprise happy ending at the prison would turn out to be a wish dream of the protagonist? It all came out of left field.
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Yeah, I still don't know what to make of that ending. Didn't really feel of the same tone as the other endings, and the whole end scene seemed off.
shareAwe you've ruined the ending for me, I think you're right must've been all in his head when he went full insane :/. I think this story had something for the negative people tho who blame everything on others, maybe they will learn a bit.
shareI think it was probably originally intended as it was all in his head. He finally cracked/lost his mind and the final scene was only the world the way he wished it to be. I mean, how many prisons will let a woman and little girl into a general population area like that. Even the guards were standing up and applauding him, which was a dead giveaway that it was all fantasy, for me anyway. Maybe they originally filmed a scene with Bombita in solitary or hanging dead in his cell or something really depressing and they scraped it in order to go with a more upbeat and ambiguous ending. Just my opinion on it.
Loved the whole story though, especially the guy's ire at the damn tow-for-profit company drivers and workers (not the ones who rescue stranded drivers but the asshats who troll around town all day looking to pop all the Bombitas of the world). They are truly down there with the scum of humanity, only a rung or two above murderers, rapists and on par with tax collectors and people who chat in the movie theater.
I don't see any reason to interpret the last bit as happening only in his head. Granted, it is weird and unlikely that an act like that would have that kind of reception, but most of the film deals on weird and unlikely events. E.g. how did Pasternak manage to fill a plane with all of his enemies in the first story? Why did the bride and groom decide it was a good idea to have sex in the middle of their wedding reception, with everyone present? etc. What the film doesn't have is other scenes in which things happen only in a character's mind, i.e, nothing authorises that interpretation.
The way I see it, bombita was, like many characters in the film, at his limit, and things just took an explosive turn. He was lucky in that what he did didn't kill anyone, and it was pretty clear that what he aimed at was an institution that everyone hated to begin with, but which nobody had any power against. His attack got him in jail, but it also basically destroyed the tow truck company, as the insurance company refused to pay for it and they suddenly saw themselves in the spotlight of the media, revealing even that their concession was questionable. It was even believed that he planned his attack meticulously so as not to kill anyone. All these things combined, in the age of social media and with the help of the hashtag #bombita, were enough to make him a hero.
I just wonder why his wife and daughter would return to him as it became apparent that his temper was damaging their relationship. All forgotten because of the hero headlines?
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Well, I don't think his temper was damaging their relationship. His explosive behaviour was the consequence of the unfair towing of his car and of how it caused their relationship to end (or at least was the last straw). When his wife tells him she's leaving, she mentions how he's always late for stuff and always has an excuse for it, but nothing about his temper.
Second, we don't know that his wife and daughter went back to him. They simply brought him a cake and smiled at him on his birthday, in prison — that's all we know. I suppose that's a reasonable reaction, considering the man was being hailed as a hero and hadn't done anything horrible (like beating them or killing someone with his attack).
I thought it too, but if you think about the rat poison segment, the cook says she had the best time in prison, much better than outside.
Also, the whole segment was full of people who hated the towing system, thinking they're all crooks, (which they were in the end as noted in the newspaper), and after everything going wrong in "the real world" he finally was a hero on the inside. So it's just a weird ending, like most all of them. 😂
I know it doesn't look like it, but that little bird is really a dove asking us for world peace