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Question/Theory on Counselor Costanza

posted 10 years ago by tbonesays
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The chapter of the lawyer and his fellows shuts down very quickly. I didn't get why all of them would be so reticent to tell Dufresne what happened. IT's pretty common for a lawyer to tell the client there's a legal firewall blocking his claim. (Of course a pharmaceutical case would go through regardless if it happened in Vietnam or a training base).

So that raised my eyebrow. Especially since his platoon mates are in the same room implying they are a group apart from him.

Did it all just happen in Thailand? OR,

Could Costanza have discovered that they had all died and realized that the entire reality was artificial?

[–] 10 years ago

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[–] calvincrack 10 years ago

I think it implies a reflection of the truth: that his squad betrayed him. He subconciously manifests that into his visions

[–] DarrenDirt 9 years ago

I think it was a distraction from his journey of letting go of his past -- and his subconscious (voiced thru Jezzie when she said "don't go" or whatever) was responsible for how that subplot got killed so quickly ... because it would not lead him forward, it would only hold him back, held onto the past. Discovering he was dead would make the whole "why did I get killed by a fellow American?" question pointless to answer... heck one of his buddies (again, his subsconscious or whatever) even pointed out that even IF the Army did something, they would never admit it. Hence no case for the lawyer.

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