Final Scene 'Lucky Out'

Lucky Supermarkets were all over Southern California at the time this movie was made (and at the time of the Vietnam War. I don't really see a significance to the door sign being the last shot and if I directed the film I'd not have put it in such an important shot.

As we used to say in Vietnam, "don't mean nuthin'."

I noticed that too. Celtfire seems to think that it was incidental, but I strongly disagree. It HAD to have been planned. There's no way that was coincidence.

The filmakers were implying that her husband's suicide was a fortunate incident. She had been freed from her unhappy marriage to persue a life with Luke.

Since I was 7 years old at the time, I don't know how much controversy this film created. But I'm sure in 1978 that the anti-Vietnam war stance and the justifiable adultry themes were not received well by many.

I'm sitting here with it paused on that image. Powerful is an understatement.

I guess it depends on your interpretation, but I was thinking of Bruce Dern and Vi's brother. They were lucky to get away from their own madness.

Some folks will understand this and some won't.


I guess it depends on the life you've lived and your own state of mind or mindlessness as it were.



I always want to smack people who pipe up with words like "coward" and "temporary solution" because they aren't ever in the other persons shoes. STFU already.


Lucky for me I only READ those things and haven't had it said to my face or I'd probably not be sitting here typing this right now.




Anyway, that is one impressive ending.