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Post by poelzig on Jul 21, 2019 8:56:25 GMT
I wondered why so many people were discussing a movie from 2005 and hating on it so hard. I guess they weren't.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2019 13:54:35 GMT
opening the door for varying interpretations and food for thought. Really? I felt the characters spelled everything out. At first it seems like Dill and Frank are not the same person but on some level it seems possible that they might actually be. Dill may have actually returned from Iraq as a wounded veteran and become angry and violent after the war. the imagery of both Frank and Dill holding onto the fishing pole near the end triggered this notion in me. This may reflect the blearing confusion that such a man, who is reduced to the incoherence of a post traumatic drunk, may experience in his mind. all in all, he has become an evil man, with the original loving father lost somewhere in that psyche.
Dill's character also overlaps with the son playing the computer game in that they are both caught in this choice between whether to kill Frank or just catch the fish. Note that the son and father both wield a knife in times of rage. The movie blurs the boundaries between characters which works because of the overall surreal feeling of it.
Morally, it feels like just continuing to fish was the right choice represented by the god character played by Hounsou. On the one hand, you can just fish and try to ignore the overbearing violence at just $10k a pop. Or you can win $10M if you commit the dirty deed which is cloaked in the relief from murdering him. And isnt it odd that the tuna's name is Justice which circles back to killing Frank. The moral boundaries are blurred and confused for both the viewer of the movie and the character in the movie, and everyone is watching (including Duke, Constance, and the black cat... and wasn't there a bird too?).
stylistically, it drew on some feelings from movies like Dark City which, for me, felt like being in a dream that was to be broken out of.
So it had a nice stream of consciousness feel to it, with an underlying ambiguity to make it worth the watch.
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