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Aw gee, Kane wasn't so bad.

posted 7 years ago by UncleRob
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Kane: "He's your son. I couldn't do it."
Helen: "I know." She knows? What does she know? She doesn't know anything!

So Kane couldn't bring himself to kill Phil (alliteration!) in cold blood. What a nice guy! He really does have a kind heart! Never mind the facts that he murdered two innocent teenagers, an innocent, pathetic drug-addict mother, boinked an underage girl and murdered her in cold blood when she became "a loose end".

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[–] micarm 7 years ago

I think he wasn't a monster...he was a guy who was put into a crossroad and made terrible decisions to escape from it. He was each time getting deeper into his own mess. He was desperate to end the cycle, but his need to survive and be free was even bigger than this good sense.
He was not a good guy, they didn't try to sell it, but he was not a monster either, even though he did some monstruous things. And he knew Hellen, he knew her story, they connected during those days, he was already suffering for what he did to Bella, so that's why he couldn't kill Phillip at the end. He thought about Hellen's suffering, about his own suffering and he measured thing and saw it wouldn't change a thing. He had already messed all up.

[–] jcgilbert2000 7 years ago

I agree with your assessment. The reason he reconciled killing Anne was because he felt she was exactly like his mom and he probably wished for someone to free him like he felt he was freeing phillip. You know...and he needed the phone.

[–] cwamne_h 7 years ago

I would say Ryan went crazy, like when he was talking to Helen, all those feelings were real. I admit I felt a little for Ryan when he dies. Obviously it's gross that he was with Bella and he did some monstrous things. But I think with Bella, it was more so with him losing his mind. Then after that it just became about trying to put it all behind him and he got obsessed with doing so.

However, I would say he killed Philip's mom simply, because he wanted to silence Philip and Lukas for good. He didn't kill them in the end, because he knew he was done at that point and I think he finally had enough with the killing. Until he knew that Helen finally figured it out, he thought he had a legitimate way of being done with it. At the time he didn't know Helen was onto him, so if killed Philip and Lukas, it would be over.

[–] jsmobile 7 years ago

I also think Ryan had PTSD from his time at war. He was damaged when he went overseas, and the war exacerbated his issues.