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He was captain of their HS football team, she was a cheerleader. You don't think she idolized him, probably fantasized being with him when she was younger.
He wanted to be a hero - I believe he comes right out and says that. Then he accidentally shoots himself in the leg, gets sent home and the military now honors him as a hero, but he knows damn well he doesn't deserve it. The thing he valued most, being a hero - is now just crap, and he probably knows now it's been mostly crap all along. That which he valued most cannot be. What's he have to live for now? Didn't seem like he had anything else in his life - he didn't really value much his girlfriend played by Fonda.
I also wondered why he wouldn't instead shoot himself - but then he probably figured he'd be again presented as a hero - who died from gunshot - which he wasn't. Going swimming, drowning, maybe never being found - would avoid all that dishonest crap he was so heart broken about.
She showed a character who isn't afraid. Isn't afraid of the police, of dying, of pretty much anything it seemed. That's probably the main reason I like it so much. And I can relate more to Harold's resistance to the world, but she showed how embracing it enriches one's life. You saw an 'old' lady, I saw someone who says "YES!" to whatever life sends them.
Maybe she'll marry Joseph Gordon-Levitt and can add those to her name. I like what I've heard Native Americans do/did. When you reach adulthood, you get to pick your adult name.
While mostly I agree with you - unfortunately a lot of people won't bother seeing a movie if it's in a foreign language.
I recently watched THESE FINAL HOURS. Found it very interesting, world is ending and how people are handling it.
Harold and Maude
Just now came across something showing stars who were at their proms years/decades ago. One she was pictured in, she looks just like she does today! Incredible!
Actually, because an important point of the plot was to show the huge differences between the two leads, even his height 'heightened' their differences.
Same here. They could have left out the operating/neck scar stuff, and it would have been better. So all those wires and cords on her when she was in bed after returning to her 'mom and dad' all had to do with her forgetting again? Just got too weird - those parts of the plot.
I also kept wondering about the dog. Did Del 'do' something with/to it? Would he? The dog did bring havoc to his orderly life. So did the young woman, but at least she didn't bite him so bad he needed stitches. I'm tending to lean towards he did something ominous with it.
At one point she's shown opening a package the two homeless kids gave her and finding a box of cookies similar to GS cookies. Maybe those were peppermint cookies?
I posted this also in a similar thread, but I imagine her unofficially adopting the two homeless kids, and goes on to teach them how to be badass heroes who wipe out the bad and corrupt people. And her movement spreads.
I figure she non-officially adopted the two kids living on the street, and is raising them to be bad ass heroes who go on to also wipe out bad guys. Yeah, I can see that as a sequel.
Well, it's a drama. And so they add characters and plot to add to the drama, is my guess. But yeah, it did seem like that aspect of the story didn't much matter, not compared to the family and cartel drama.
Good point about the truck color! So obvious now that you mention it.
I was expecting the final scene to be some other inmate coming up behind Clint's character who's tending gently and lovingly to the flowers, and stab him in the back with a skiv a few times fast. I really did. He knew way too much, and dangerous drug people don't want to take chances on anybody informing on them. Even if it didn't seem like his character would snitch, drug people are all about themselves and so why take a chance?
I don't think it ever entered his mind that the drugs would be sold to drug addicts and mess up peoples' minds/lives. He knew it was illegal from the beginning, but he chose to not ponder his actions. He hadn't put people first during his lifetime, and now he had the chance to - by giving money, lots of money, to them. He became the hero at the rebuilt bar hang out. He just saw how his life was improving, and I don't think he chose to look more deeply at the broad ramifications that running drugs would result in.
I also thought the new, big, black shiny truck was much more conspicuous. He just looked nearly invisible in the old one. And money could have put the old one into a more reliable ride.
Yeah, the money seemed like way too much. Yeah, he's carrying large amounts of drugs, but he's doing the same thing, just driving point A to point B.
The last few envelopes just looked like a ridiculous amount. They're all criminals. Hard to imagine whoever left the envelopes would't get 'sticky fingers'
He admitted to Cooper's character that he never thought he'd had a 'filter'
I just read a little about it. I wouldn't say 'no one uses that word anymore.' I hear it at a stoplight when the driver next to me is blasting their music (and yeah, usually it's a black person playing ghetto music and the 'n' word and other profanities are blasting). I've heard it from guys playing basketball on courts in public parks. Sometimes a group of white guys, sometimes a group of black guys. It gets used for sure.
With all the strong antagonism between political parties these days, to me it was a great story about two extremely opposite people choosing to see beyond their own views and find the value and humanity in each other. Miracles can happen.