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This. Exactly. I was actually crying watching it... So much pain, so much despair... "I want you to make me feel better. I want you to make me feel good." Leticia's clutching at straws while drowning - the state she's in is just so sad.... ;((((( I also don't think Hank was a bad person, just a damaged and broken one. This movie has a strong theme of parents-children relationships. And we see all parents being children themselves. Well, at least Hank is especially in focus because the movie tells us where he came from and what he became. There are relationships between Tyrell and his father Lawrence, between Tyrell and his mother Leticia, between Sonny and Hank, between Hank and his father Buck, and probably also between Buck and his own father (which the movie tells us nothing about). Hank and Leticia are basically doing the same in letting their anger and frustration about their relationships with father and husband out on their children Sonny and Tyrell respectively. Remember when Sonny points the gun at Hank and says "How do you like that, huh? Come on! Are you a tough guy now?" he basically says what kind of adult are you? Because Hank is a lost child himself. Same as Sonny he is never good enough for his father unless he becomes just like him, without questioning. Hank is never accepted by Buck to be anything else than Buck's own image of life / work / attitude / ... He's not bad in nature, he is just lost and tries to do the right thing - just as he says it himself in the car with Leticia. I personally only have a problem with the "love" thing between Hank and Leticia. It does not feel like "love". It looks like he is trying to do the right thing, to make it up for Sonny, too (remember the scene where he scares away the black kids with gun shots and Sonny is looking at him in shock and disgust). It feels like the late outstanding puberty of sorts, rebellion against his own father and his ideas or beliefs. I really think he is taking care of Leticia because he wants to do something good so that he is forgiven (by whoever) for what he had done to Sonny. But I don't think he really loves her. She's just a friend with the same grieving problem... [Maximum digit limit reached] These two remind me so of Cather in the Rye - the "teenage rebellion" against the adult world and all those expectations. It's also kind of sad seeing them feeling kind of trapped, not able to express their real feelings, not able to give in. It's nice that they DO give in in the end, but i sort of suspect the sequels will be crushing... (Please don't tell!) View all replies >