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Brendan Conlon is a materialistic fool (SPOILERS)

posted 8 years ago by !!!deleted!!! (69316736)
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This character was okay, but not 100% likeable. He was doing a second job that he didn't want to do (UFC) to keep the house, it's pathetic. Even his wife said in one scene that she doesn't care about the house, he then said that he's not getting rid of the house and that there's "memories" there, well you know what? You can make NEW memories in a NEW HOUSE!

They had three jobs between them, it's ridiculous, it's surprising that they actually ever got to spend any time at home with their kids.

At the end of the day a house is just bricks and water, why go to all of that trouble to keep a house that they could no longer afford, it's insane.

What they could have done was get a smaller house or a flat / apartment in their price range, so that he wouldn't have to fight in sleazy places on the side.

I don't really have any sympathy for this character except for the fact that Tommy withheld him from seeing their mother before she died.

[–] kieranmufc1999 8 years ago

You clearly are from a completely different background to him. A house isn't just somewhere to live. By living in a nice house his children can go to a better school, have better friends and not grow up in a house like he did. To him the house is a way to give his children a better chance in life than he had. By moving to a cheaper house his kids might have to move school. This means they have to make new friends, who coming from a poorer background are more likely to have less involved parents (whether this is because they are too busy working for them to get by or if they are just absent parents) it still means they could be involved in a dangerous lifestyle which no-one who would want their children to involved in. If they do manage to stay in the same school they could be bullied for living in a poorer area or in a worse house. Either way he's not being overly materialistic by wanting a better place for his children to live.

[–] DennisReynolds 8 years ago

This. And given the ending, I doubt he took the full 5 million dollar prize. He probably took what he needed and then gave the rest to the family that Tommy wanted to support.

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