It is about fathers and sons isn't it? I think so...

Bronson never had a loving father. His own father was revealed in the story Wynn told about Bronson falling off the rowboat - his father was willing to let him drown. The story also shows, of course, how hard a man his dad was as a criminal lord... but the whole movie is really about fathers and sons.

And then there is Vincent who had a father who was just using him as a front. “The perfect Bel air boy”

Here Bronson doesn't have a family. His wife is only a prostitute writing fake love letters to get a hundred more. Bronson talks about standing outside of it all... but he sees a son in Vincent. Somebody to tell his life philosophy too – you don’t talk about your feelings to a new employee.

Vincent pursues trying to know Bronson to have a mentor and somebody to be a teacher. He said partners and Bronson corrected him “associate” and Vincent smiled he didn’t walk out…



SPOILERS!!!!! Ahead...


I think when Bronson asked Vincent at the end "was it because of your father" he might well have said "don't start your car" if Jan-Michael had said yes. I really think he wanted to have a “son” to care about and he would have accepted Vincent getting revenge for his biological father and told him in his dying breathe at least "car"...

But Vincent didn't get the father/son thing at the end. He was impressed with Bronson several times. Bronson shooting doubles effortlessly. His bring able to read lips effortlessly. But at the end Vincent was only a killing psychopath. He wanted something in the beginning but he let in out of his grasp at the end. The relationship problems that were there between Charles and his own dad and Jan Michael and his dad continue here too between Charles and Jan-Michael. Fathers and Sons.

So Bronson just died. Vincent joked about "see Naples and die". The last lines of the movie... Because he didn’t get the commitment Bronson was going for with him Vincent ended up talking about himself as well as Charles.

So Bronson kept his mouth shut and Vincent went back to LA after seeing Naples to start his car.

Remember Bronson saw the dossier when he dropped in unannounced on Vincent’s house. He could have simply killed Vincent when he next came to Bronson’s home. Vincent didn’t have a mom present or anyone else to ask questions. But Bronson didn’t did he? He needed somebody and that is why he was having the anxiety attacks.


It is a profound movie about Bronson not really being able to back up his self image of standing outside of it all. It has the son turning against the father after being "raised" by him. The whole movie is about fathers and sons I think. The sons end up hating the fathers while the fathers try to understand their sons. “I can’t understand him anymore” Wynn says…

It actually is pretty sad. Pretty true too… and a work of genius to overlay the whole thing on a crime movie! I hope somebody remakes this movie.