MovieChat Forums > Death to Smoochy (2002) Discussion > What did 'Have you travelled together be...

What did 'Have you travelled together before' mean at the end?

posted 16 years ago by rissaofthesaiyajin
18 replies | jump to latest

I feel so dumb. I know it's a threat but I don't understand it. What does she mean? What is she threatening them with? I feel like I missed something.

[–] omggetthepopcorn 16 years ago

This part has always confused me.

Maybe she's going to take them to Ireland before she kills them. Or like ... they're dying together so like ... bah, I don't know. lol

I laugh in the face of danger!!
Then I find somewhere to hide until it goes away.

[–] Zinnober 16 years ago

My interpretation is that she meant either:

a. They're both departing their lives together... on their way to hell/afterlife/etc.

or

b. She's going to bury their bodies together or something like that.

It's just a menacing statement - I wouldn't read too much into it.

http://eugenicsbeginswithyou.typepad.com/

[–] jdre 16 years ago

I interpreted it as "travelling to the afterlife", yes.

Kindof a funny line, if it wasn't a tad ambiguous in American vernacular.

[–] rob169 16 years ago

I took it to mean they are going to get chopped up into bits and put in a bag.

[–] tylerdurden227 16 years ago

yeah, on the deleted scenes with commentary, they say that they didn't want it to be that obvious (the scene where you here tommy and her boys shoot burke and stokes)

[–] Goatrider 16 years ago

Indeed. So that they both will travel to hell.

[–] IndridCold 16 years ago

Here's what I thought it meant.

Since she told Sheldon that she'd give them a ride through the justice system, I thought it meant that they were both going to be riding in the back of a cop car together.

"It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything."

[–] 16 years ago

[deleted]

[–] Bystandah 16 years ago

I'm willing to bet both of their asses got thrown off the top of that building and onto the cold pavement. But, that's my take on it.

[–] Daverat 16 years ago

I assumed it was a play on various Irish phrases referring to death. For example, somebody who has died is said to have "travelled further on up the road" and people might say about a dead loved one "we'll meet them further on up the road" meeaning they'll reuiniute in heaven.

Another NYC Irish euphemism for death I used to hear from elderly relatives was "He's travelled out West, you know" That's more of a throwback to pre-Christian Irish folklore though with the West being the land of Tir na Nog. Also, the sun sets in the West. I asked my Grandmother why people said that and she said it was a gentler way to say somebody had died.

I think it's clearly implied that Tommy and her crew were planning to send them on a one-way trip to hell.

[–] Goatrider 16 years ago

Hehehe, but you'd know you're wrong if you watched the deleted scenes on the DVD.

[–] Daverat 16 years ago

OK Goatrider, share with the class! Tell us what it meant. I don't have the DVD and you are EVIl for making me consider buying it!

[–] claudia02127 16 years ago

They were both going to their deaths together. that's what she meant.
This is a logic free zone:
Use of logic will be met with uncomfortable silences

[–] virgiltx 12 years ago

I think that when gangsters talk about taking someone for "nice long ride", that means they're going to be taken away and killed.

____________________

[–] hodie 12 years ago

I thought it meant they were shortly about to go to hell together.

"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"

[–] MuggCostanza 12 years ago

Yeah, to hell.