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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i think the movie is more about the police detective than douglas's character. maybe not, just saying/
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For me the movie was about the fragility of the human mind and how people care so little about others.
The Douglas character just snapped. He seemed to be a normal guy with the " american dream " of having a wife, child and a steady job but for whatever reason he lost it all. On that day, in his mind, all he wanted to do was see his daughter on her birthday. As he abandons his car and starts walking each person or group he encounters treats him with callous disrespect as if he doesn't matter. Each encounter fuels his rage that goes unchecked from a mind that's snapped and is no longer capable of discerning right from wrong.
Only one person escapes him and that is the gardner who was using the pool at his bosses house and showed no disrespect towards the douglas character. The others asked for it.
If all the people he encountered along the way had treated him decently he may just have reached his destination without a problem. If someone along the way offered to help him he may have gotten there quicker.
It's all the assholes he encounters on his walk that clues you as to how he lost his mind. It's the way people treat others. With the way things are today and the stress we face this movie has as much or more relevance than it did when it first came out.
People should think about what they say and do to others. Your actions may seem harmless to you but may be accumulative to them. One more word may be just enough to send a decent man falling down.