Seriously, why would he circle the place on a map where he bombed or planned to bomb only to leave it out in the open for someone to find, especially in a place where he just killed someone. That plot point always bothers me.
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maybe he had to leave the apartment quickly,he had to escape or the policemen may have found the map after a strong research, Wulfgar may have hidden but they found it the same.
yeah i guess maybe he was in a hurry but still, to go to the same club he went to with a girl he murdered is a little careless too. He mustve known the cops would be staking out the places she liked to frequent. I know i'm nitpicking. It's still an awesome movie.
shareOf course some dangers can always occur a such character,besides you must consider that nobody knew Wulfgar's face after the surgeon changed it,in that moment police had just an identikit and didn't know how he really was so he thought he wouldn't be recognized.
Wulfgar doesn't wear gloves in London where he bombs the mall and leaves his fingerprints all over the phone. I'm thinking he has some psychological compulsion, that he wants to be found out so he can confront his enemies face to face for the thrill of it.
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Actually, the whole concept that Wulfgar could regain the favor of political extremist groups he had alienated by going full-bore (demonstrating his invulnerability) seemed sort of weird.
It just doesn't seem plausible. And if it isn't plausible, yet Wulfgar thinks it is, it shows him to be irrational and a poor judge of human nature. And if he's that bad a judge of character, could he really have gotten as far as he did, purely by dint of bloodlust-masked-by-charm?
And, speaking of terrorism, I prefer portraits of terrorism like the one in "The Crying Game", where the people are politically motivated. The "free agent" concept of Wulfgar harbors a kind of throwback charm, but I don't think it's aged well.
Another contrast: Anton Chigurh is a free agent, but 1) in the end, he's really only looking out for himself, and 2) he's far from currying the favor of political extremist groups: He's attractive to and available for hire by neat, tidy little crime organizations.
My point is that if Wulfgar's character had been cast more as a Chigurh-type character, it would have been more believable.
All that said, I will grant this: He's a damn sight better than some terrorist types I've seen in particularly shabby movies.
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"And, speaking of terrorism, I prefer portraits of terrorism like the one in "The Crying Game", where the people are politically motivated. The "free agent" concept of Wulfgar harbors a kind of throwback charm, but I don't think it's aged well."
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But that's exactly what made Wulfgar interesting. If he was just another yahoo running around bombing things in the name of Palestinian liberation or something, that'd be pretty dull. His psychotic intellectualism made him far more fascinating than the commonplace IRA jugheads in The Crying Game. And Wulfgar wasn't entirely unrealistic. In the real world of the late 70s he easily could have been some castoff from Germany's RAF.
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And the Unabomber was a bona fide math genius, with a PhD and had been at several very prestigious universities.
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No seriously the Unabomber really was a math genius. He was doing advanced calculus when he was like 12 years old and he got PhD in math from one of the top 3 math schools in the nation. It's a shame Al Bore was given an Oscar :(
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I never understood why he would frequent the nightclub and expose himself to the public instead of going into hiding.
sharePart of his MO was to meet some young woman and charm into letting him stay at her place so he wouldn't have to rent a hotel room or apartment. The nightclub was probably the best place to meet one.
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