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Why Roy didn't kill Adam (weird van conversation)

posted 12 years ago by samantha16040-500-967450
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When Roy told Adam that he didn't kill him for the same reason that Adam didn't kill the girl, was there something being implied, or am I just over thinking it?

[–] Piston_Smash 12 years ago

Adam couldn't kill the girl simply because he couldn't bring himself to end her life. Roy seemed to me to be at a point in his life where he had had enough of killing. He was losing the detachment which enabled him to be able to kill. Roy was returning to a state, like Adam, of attachment. The very first thing Roy said to Adam was, "Don't use my name again." He didn't want to form any kind of attachment to Adam given the ultimate intended fate of Adam.
The fact of Roy's daughter's wedding may have been the catalyst which made him reattach with humanity. Weddings symbolise the beginnings of new life. Roy's daughter getting married implied grandchildren on the horizon. Perhaps it was this which made Roy re-evaluate his profession. Spending time with the niaive Adam, probably of a similar age to his own daughter, helped him see the value in life.

[–] woodstock1960 11 years ago

Right on Piston...I couldn't have said it better myself! (*˘︶˘*)

"Ain't life grand" ;)

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[–] smeg-4-brains 10 years ago

Brilliantly put. I couldn't have said it better myself either... except, the second time around when Adam talked about not killing the Girl, he confessed that he didn't kill her coz he fancied her, and Roy didn't contradict his earlier comment about not killing him for the same reason Adam didn't kill her which led me to suspect that Roy was actually gay/bi and he fancied Adam. I might be reading too much into that notion but it almost felt like an allusion to Tim Roth's Mr Orange character from Reservoir Dogs (who was also shot in the stomch in that film's denouement) and his purported 'homosexual' attraction to Harvey Keitel's Mr White.

[–] woodstock1960 10 years ago

Brains...I thought that very same thing about Roy when Adam asked why he didn't kill him...Roy's expression certainly seemed to imply that he was gay/bi. I'm still not sure what to think about that part.

"Ain't life grand"

[–] padzok 10 years ago

When Roy told Adam that he didn't kill him for the same reason that Adam didn't kill the girl, was there something being implied, or am I just over thinking it?

I think that he meant that his conscience got the better of him, or, put another way, he didnt have the stomach for the killing.

Although Adam replied that he didnt kill the girl just because he fancied her, Roy knew that wasnt true.

Adam was saying that because Adam was trying to make himself sound tough (and maybe Adam even believed it himself).

But Roy knew that Adam did not really have it in him. As Roy himself said, Adam could not even bring himself to chop up a corpse.

And the viewer later saw further proof that Roy's instinct was correct when Adam could not even kill his stepfather.

[–] AndrewJamesBarclay 10 years ago

He was attracted to the young male character.

Speak to me how you expect to be spoken to.

[–] Katherina_Minola 10 years ago

He didn't fancy Adam. He had just lost the taste for killing, and Adam didn't have it in him to kill anyone. So Roy was just saying that the reason was that neither of them could bring themselves to do it.