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I bet the arrogant little brats wish they'd gone bowling after all.
I actually had some sympathy for the old blind guy. He didn't start out intending to kill anyone. He planned on freeing the girl he was keeping in his basement after she bore him a child. She'd killed his only child, probably his only reason for living. It isn't conventional, but it does seem like poetic justice that she should bear him a child to replace the one she'd taken. In modern society he's blamed for imprisoning her against her will, but in his eyes, why should she get away with what she did with absolutely no consequences, probably not even a backward glance. And he didn't rape her. He artificially inseminated her. Quite a difference. His motive wasn't to hurt her or to get sexual-gratification for himself. It was to make her bear him a child, to replace the one she'd taken from him.
He needed his fortune in money to raise the child that he was hoping to have. He'd surely have to hire a nanny to help raise his new child, and he'd have to pay her for the next 20 years or so. His V.A. disability pension surely wouldn't pay for it, it probably wouldn't even support himself. The 3 teenage thieves didn't spare him a thought, and it didn't seem to bother them that they were robbing him of the only money he'd ever have, or that it would ruin his life. I don't know why they should expect him to show them any mercy after they'd broken into his home, taken his money, and destroyed his life. He had a right to defend himself, and he certainly couldn't allow them to go free after they'd discovered the girl in his basement. The 2 boys got what they deserved, and the girl should be ashamed of herself for what she did to him.
Yes, the scalping segment was quite a shock. Eli lived with the Comanches in his youth, and his fantasy imagining of what he'd actually like to do to the arrogant businessman provided some bizarre humor. And it was quite in keeping with the sublimated savagery in his persona. Not long ago, he'd cut off the ear of the Mexican (Cesar) while interrogating him over the destruction of his oil-rig. The Comanches would have been proud of him.
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