Friday 8 November 2024
(watched, at the theater 📽️)
The story is well told and had me hanging all along, but I find the main character infuriating and cannot think about the movie without getting upset.
We don't see him experiencing guilt about having killed someone. He is only focused on the transactional aspect of the justice system and strategy about avoiding jail. Doesn't he have issues with the fact that he apparently can't be trusted to drive without even realizing whether he killed someone or not? Doesn't he think about the life he has taken? He seems fine avoiding any sort of accountability if that's what will ensure he does not go to jail. Then when he realizes throwing someone else in jail is the only way, he does so, argues that because he is a well-dressed white suburban father his life if fundamentally more worthy than a ex-gangster, and goes home to play with his baby, fully knowing that someone else is in jail instead of him. The guy is a PSYCHOPATH. And the movie is like "hurr durr look those are morally interesting questions about justice, the system is obviously not perfect tadadadida."
The story is well told and had me hanging all along, but I find the main character infuriating and cannot think about the movie without getting upset.
We don't see him experiencing guilt about having killed someone. He is only focused on the transactional aspect of the justice system and strategy about avoiding jail. Doesn't he have issues with the fact that he apparently can't be trusted to drive without even realizing whether he killed someone or not? Doesn't he think about the life he has taken? He seems fine avoiding any sort of accountability if that's what will ensure he does not go to jail. Then when he realizes throwing someone else in jail is the only way, he does so, argues that because he is a well-dressed white suburban father his life if fundamentally more worthy than a ex-gangster, and goes home to play with his baby, fully knowing that someone else is in jail instead of him. The guy is a PSYCHOPATH. And the movie is like "hurr durr look those are morally interesting questions about justice, the system is obviously not perfect tadadadida."