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kane · 03-21-2008, 01:41 AM

I just got done watching it and loved it. To me much of it is about the reality that no matter how much we plan our lives they are still at the mercy of random acts. The guy that owns the store wins the coin toss and lives. What if he lost? He probably dies and his only crime is going to work that day. In the end when Anton is in the car wreck. He is mean, tough, smart and cold, yet a random car wreck nearly killed him and the random kindness of a kid may have kept him from getting caught. What if the deer that the guy shot had died right there? He wouldn't have tracked it and would have never found the crime scene or the money. It is random and shows that at any random moment evil can come into your life. Sometimes your actions can cause it to be worse and some times not. Had he just walked away from the scene, none of this would have happened, but he accepted it into his life and got what he was looking for.

I think Jones represents the common guy. He tries and wants to do the right thing, but eventually he comes to the reality that he can't stop things. He won't really make a difference and he decides to just keep his head down and hope for the best. That is what most of us do. We don't carry out acts of evil. We don't commit crimes. But we really do little to actually stop them, instead we accept that the world is a bad place, but work to make our home and our lives okay and try to forget what is beyond the doors of home.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but for me it really was about corruption, randomness and finally the realization that evil people will do evil things and there is little anyone can really do to stop it.

03-21-2008, 01:41 AM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	I just got done watching it and loved it. To me much of it is about the reality that no matter how much we plan our lives they are still at the mercy of random acts. The guy that owns the store wins the coin toss and lives. What if he lost? He probably dies and his only crime is going to work that day. In the end when Anton is in the car wreck. He is mean, tough, smart and cold, yet a random car wreck nearly killed him and the random kindness of a kid may have kept him from getting caught. What if the deer that the guy shot had died right there? He wouldn't have tracked it and would have never found the crime scene or the money. It is random and shows that at any random moment evil can come into your life. Sometimes your actions can cause it to be worse and some times not. Had he just walked away from the scene, none of this would have happened, but he accepted it into his life and got what he was looking for. I think Jones represents the common guy. He tries and wants to do the right thing, but eventually he comes to the reality that he can't stop things. He won't really make a difference and he decides to just keep his head down and hope for the best. That is what most of us do. We don't carry out acts of evil. We don't commit crimes. But we really do little to actually stop them, instead we accept that the world is a bad place, but work to make our home and our lives okay and try to forget what is beyond the doors of home. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but for me it really was about corruption, randomness and finally the realization that evil people will do evil things and there is little anyone can really do to stop it.