This movie was so disturbing and depressing. Did anyone else feel this way? Good plot and acting (as usual by Mr. Jackson) but I just hated the movie for the feeling it left you with at the end, an overall sad and hopeless feeling.
we all go a little mad sometimes
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*spoilers*
It was depressing in a way, but there was really not going to be a happy ending for anyone. Not the way the characters 'were'.
Even Garfield. He was basically emotionally dead when he arrived in California, the trouble with the kids like Ceasar only made it worse.
He was a man obsessed with his students & with teaching. He had no life of his own.
Plus, everyone had abandoned him. And Ceasar wasn't about to learn from his mistakes, he refused to.
In a way this did have a bittersweet ending. Garfield 'won' in a big sense when it came to Cesar. He knew what he was all about, he said he was a fool and he was, knew he'd 'die by stupidity' and he did.
It wasn't enough that Cesar had survived so far in the roulette game, he had to prove himself...and he did it because he couldn't stand to believe Garfield was right.
Rita learned from her trouble, as did at least one of Ceasar's friends also!
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."