Jon manipulates a clearly mentally ill man in order to exploit him for his talent for personal fame and exposure. Then afterward berets him and harasses him to the point where he has an emotional breakdown, flees into traffic and is nearly killed. Total *beep*
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Pretty much agree with this. Although I think the main character actually cared about Frank and realized he had hurt him in the end. I thought this was a really touching story though.
shareI actually think the whole point is just that Jon doesn't have an ounce of talent in him! His level of self awareness is absent throughout the film so he was swept up in the unjustified place he received within the band. The end scene showed that he added absolutely nothing to the band.
sharehe added absolutely nothing to the band.
Aye. Agreed. Maybe that was the point. In these films the protagonist usually unlocks their potential and becomes a star. Whereas this guy started as a mug and remained one. Tried to live out his fantasies on someone else's dime. I had to skip the part at sxsw when he started playing his own song. It was genuinely harrowing and made my skin crawl.
shareYep. It was nice that he finally made up for the error of his ways, but throughout most of the movie he was painfully unselfaware and shallow. I was surprised at how many reviewers described his character as innocent and naive and Clara as sociopathic. Clara was violent, but she saw through Jon from the beginning and, frankly (oops), I admired her for the fact that she refused to put up with his bull.
shareI didn't really see him as a POS, but more as a naïf who just got caught up in the excitement of being "accepted" into a band. It was kind of a coming of age learning experience for him. Several of the band members seemed to have done sort of mental imbalance, and Jon seemed to want to help them be successful, without admitting to himself that he was totally out of his element, and that he wasn't helping at all. At the end he realizes that the crazies need each other.
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