Okay, so, I understood all of the film except for the rocks. Why were they being thrown, and who was throwing them? I might have missed something because I was also dealing with a small child at the time. So, if anyone could let me know it would be much appreciated :)
Thanks!
I have no idea about the rocks. I am just as curious as you are. The whole rocks thing is not explained fully or if even at all. I wanna know as well.
shareNow this is just the way I interpreted it, so it may be wrong, but I thought that the rocks were just a metaphor for him being so insecure and paranoid. I mean every character in this story is disturbed on some level, whether it's drugs, peer pressure, depression, whatever. Barry clearly has some type of bi-polar disorder or something similar. He is constantly freaking out about anyone finding out about him and Caroline, yet then he ends up being the one giving away the secret. I remember a few occasions in the film where he keeps on telling Caroline how people are watching him, blablabla. I felt that no one actually threw rocks, and it was just him inventing things the way he does with his novel and calling people. Like, when Caroline shows up at his house, instead of telling her that something is going on and that he is possibly being attacked, he grabs her and has sex with her. So it seemed to me that his whole issue with being watched is on the one hand scary to him, but it actually turns him on on another level, so he lives in that world, making up these stories.
These are my two cents on it.
I see what you're saying about Barry and the rocks, but rocks happen in other scenes in the film as well. The one that stands out to me is when Caroline and Thurston are in the car after having sex the first time, someone is throwing rocks at the car. That's the point where she asks him to "play the male role" and find out what's going on. Which he can't.
I think it's a metaphor for how sinister the town is, and a way to keep you from getting too comfortable. It all ties in to the story of the girl that was the stripper who was pelted with burning coins by the football team everyday. It's sort of an embodiment of the town's residual evil for lack of a better term.
Gamera is really neat... He is made of mystery meat!
i think the idea is that the ghost of his dead friend (who caroline sees the morning she decides to dump the teacher) is throwing the rocks.
the first time to warn his friend that caroline is using him, the second to get even with the teacher for what he did to his friend.
notice thurston even asks his other friend who had the experience on drugs if he saw his friend
But there was also a third scene with the rocks. A rock hit the room window of the little boy that Thurston's little sister was in love with. I think the rocks were just a way to keep up the suspense in the movie. Every time rocks were thrown I thought that it was the serial killer... which kept me in suspense.
shareThanks everyone. I was just super confused by it. I didn't know if I had missed something, or if I just needed to come up with the answers myself. The movie is pretty brilliant though IMO.
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