Fresh is a little prick for killing the dog that way. He could have just shot it in the head first of all.
And why did he need to kill the dog anyways? Who knows if the dog would have eventually been killed if let loose. At least the dog would have more of a shot than fresh gave it.
What an insensitive little prick.
I just watched this for the first time tonight and this was my question, too. WTF?! That scene made absolutely no sense to me. He couldn't be bothered to ask a few people if they'd like to take the dog. He has to brutally hang and then shoot it in the neck. I don't understand it one bit.
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shareHe was trying to see if he had what it takes to kill something he knew staring him in the eye. Also, it may have been to see what would happen if he shot from that distance (aim/kick on the gun) he is a genius after all. Experimenting is part of learning. Also, seeing that the dog was violent why would he want to have it go stray?
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I think he shot the dog because the dog represented violence to him. In the dog fighting scene, he destroyed and started chewing the other dog. Fresh was clearly bothered by that and makes a deal with his friend so he can stop putting him in dog fights. Since Fresh wanted out of the violent lifestyle, he wanted to be rid of everything that represented violence. So he kills the dog.
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oxymoron there though, using such violence to destroy violence? There might have been some artistic reason to having him do it like he did, but if he wanted out of violence it would seem he would have chosen a more humane way of killing the dog (if he even had to)
shareThat's the entire point of the movie.
He uses violence to destroy violence. You're meant to empathize with his situation, and to think on his methods.
Good answer. I thought he was prepping himself to eventually kill someone but we see he was able to get rid of plenty of bad guys w/o using the gun again.
I interpreted it as he saw himself and his situation as a parallel to the dog. Now that the dog had been trained to fight by Chucky, he would never be the same again, it now had a taste for blood and would either reach the level of top dog, or die trying(metaphor?). In the dog eat dog life he was stuck in, once he had put his plan in action, he was trapped and had no choice but to carry it through.
Now that the streetlife had killed Chucky, he decided to take responsibility for the dog. I guess he felt that this was the best option, the only way out for the dog, as opposed to living the life it had ahead of him.
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It's been a while since seeing so...
This scene seems to be crucial to the whole message of the movie. Protagonists don't kill dogs. I'm overstating it, but for some it is worse than killing multiple humans. So symbolically it is a big deal to use in a movie.
The scene drives home like a spike through the forehead the chess metaphor in conjunction with functioning in a real and brutal world. The real world is not a place where the hero as pure and noble exists. This world is real and the violence is real so wake up. That slips by some with human death, but cannot be escaped when a dog is used.
He didn't just have to make a transition from boy to man, he had to transition all the way from boy to king. He wanted to save his sister and had to be a different person to do it. To move from good kid to pitiless king overnight. Sacrificing a dog in such a cruel way was something that was going to make sacrificing humans possible for this young boy. (You could also parallel the dog to the gangsters he was facing. Normal creatures made into something brutal to survive in a brutal world.)
In the end he became king and his sister was saved. He wasn't 'good' anymore but he did what it took to save his sister. Would you do what you had to do to save your sister or would you remain a pawn and hope for the best. Throw your life away as a pawn hopelessly trying to achieve that or hope for the luck of cruel fate to come through.
Someone said in this thread that scene was there so the audience would empathize with him.If that was the case for the people involved with this movie,then it did the opposite for me.As soon as he hung the dog I felt disgusted and once he finally shot and killed the dog.I couldn't stand Fresh.After that scene I didn't want anything good to happen to Fresh.
shareI also saw the scene as if it wasnt for the dog his friend chuckie would be alive. He only gave chuckie that job moving drugs with him because he didn't want him fighting that dog anymore. So he ended up hating the dog. Least that's how I see it.
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