We don't see what actually happened that night. I'm wondering if Larry did intend to kill Carin, or just that he wanted to kill himself and she tried to stop him and he just shot her when she did and then he killed himself so as not to have to go thru a trial.
What do you all think?
Seemed to me that he was schizophrenic or something similar. He says something strange while he was hanging up her coat--he said "we don't want to be late" which was completely irrelevant to their conversation--seemed to me like he was having a psychotic episode. I figured that's why he killed her and himself.
"And then he started cheating...especially at magnetic travel scrabble."
Yeah, the "we" does seem like he was going to kill her too, but does that mean that if Patch had gone down there, he would've been murdered?
shareLarry plays Beethoven's "Fur Elise" (my kingdom for an umlaut) and since I saw (edit as of: 1/26/14) Patch on December 25, 1998, I CANNOT hear the song IN THE SAME LIGHT AGAIN! (end of edit) Very fun and sad movie, just so long as you don't (before Roger Ebert comes from the grave and the REAL Patch Adams and Doug Walker aka Nostalgia Critic reads) don't take serious this as being "based on a true story". (My opinion is much more kinder compared to Patch Adams, the Late Mr.Ebert and Nostalgia Critic, very understated comment as they totally HATED it!)
(update of 1/26/14)
And yes, Larry after killing Carin took the easiest way out, offing himself (following last night's LIFETIME showing of Lizzie Borden, maybe after she took an axe gave her mom and dad forty whacks or whatever should have killed herself just as this Larry guy in Patch Adams did.)
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No you misunderstood, she said that she couldn't stay long. So he got annoyed and said "we don't want to be late". Implying that he knows she has nowhere else to be but is making an excuse, as to needing to leave. That's all. I think it was planned, leaving the door open, the way he was acting when she came in.
shareThe whole thing was fake. In real life Patch's male friend was murdered, not his love interest/wife.
shareSo, deduct your own conclusion from that little morsel of information. Would imply that perhaps the buddy of his that got murdered was still a love interest, and the facts were altered for the movie because his sexual orientation needed to intentionally be downplayed, in order to make sure that the actual story was payed closer attention to and the movie didn't become a story about overcoming adversity about his sexual orientation, and it stayed on point, and about the story of how patch became a good, caring, and amazing Doctor. His sexual orientation was unimportant for storytelling purposes, so they left out this piece. Nowadays it wouldn't be such a forgivable omission, but back then overlooking something like that was more commonplace than people realize probably. In this case though they were probably right to do it. Nowadays if they were to do a Patch Adams Remake, they absolutely would make his love interest male, and they would create an entirely new plot where he was constantly having to hide his sexual preference and identity, and was constantly having to overcome people's bigotry and hate, and the original message would have become diluted and not nearly as powerful in a singular moral format.
shareShe possibly tried to stop him or his intention was to kill both of them. Damn bastard.
shareI assumed that when he said "We don't want to be late" he meant that he was talking about Heaven. Therefore, he planned the murder-suicide from the start.
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