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CLICK's ? ? ? what exactly do they mean?

posted 16 years ago by davebear_SB
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I'm not quite sure what "Big Daddy" means when, in the basement having a "heart to heart" with Brick, he says, he has "all these click's in my belly", & "you know about click's don't ya Brick"? etc.

At first I thought they meant "Clique's" as in small groups of people who keep to them selves rather than a large group of others...

But on thinking of the story as a whole, I'm thinking that I mis-understood the meaning of "click's" or "cliqui's",j or whatever meaning they are trying to convey.

[–] sgweedles 16 years ago

Brick drinks to find peace, and that doesn't happen until he hears that "audible click" in his head. Big Daddy's clicks are his guts churning and spasming, ( is that even a word?)
I think that is my favorite part of the movie, when Brick and Big Daddy clear the air if you will.

I'm not trying to be annoying...it just always works out that way.

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[–] JeffroDNice 15 years ago

I don't get the click personally, I get a melting like wax where all the stress just melts away and I can't help but laugh at how my head is buzzing and the problems of the day just don't matter anymore. And like Big Daddy it's not just alcohol that can give it to me: accomplishing something I'm proud of, succeeding, looking around and realizing how good I've got it, an epiphany, all give me the clicks. I can see clearly now: the rain is gone.

[–] Ironman54 15 years ago

"Boom, boom, out go the lights."

'Click' - as in a light switch. In the 50's we didn't have 'soft touch' light switches, they were spring loaded and made an audible 'click' when you shut off (or on) the lights.

[–] Cal Hawks 15 years ago

Brick explains that it's the click of the phone. He's guilty because his friend Skipper tried calling him before he killed himself, and Brick just let it ring.

Once he's drunk enough and he hears that click the phone is no longer ringing in his head.

Big Daddy then uses it as an analogue to his own life and his own search for peace.