*For anybody interested that's seen the movie*
Nicholson has been in a few great films with low-key endings. Easy Rider, Last Detail, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest...
But this one takes the biscuit. We are never sure if he finds out about the crash. My take on this is that he didn't and that's what riled him. His years of alcoholism, along with his sudden retirement (he seems to have been working hard until the end of his career in the force) pushes Jerry Black into a situation he's frightened of going.
I thought his colleagues felt glad getting him that ticket the hell out of there. He seems to have been a bit of a pain at the station. But he stays and gets involved. Deeply involved in his mad plan.
He uses the girl as bait, at the same time knowing that what he is doing is out of order. He knows the girl's mother would be furious. He is positive to the dress in the shop, and he places the swing out front by the gas pumps. Creepy.
At the end I went back to the part where they showed the killer. Just to get a good look at him...
Not a film for parents of young kids, as I am. An unsettling look at a very dark side of the human nature.
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Nicholson has been in a few great films with low-key endings. Easy Rider, Last Detail, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest...
But this one takes the biscuit. We are never sure if he finds out about the crash. My take on this is that he didn't and that's what riled him. His years of alcoholism, along with his sudden retirement (he seems to have been working hard until the end of his career in the force) pushes Jerry Black into a situation he's frightened of going.
I thought his colleagues felt glad getting him that ticket the hell out of there. He seems to have been a bit of a pain at the station. But he stays and gets involved. Deeply involved in his mad plan.
He uses the girl as bait, at the same time knowing that what he is doing is out of order. He knows the girl's mother would be furious. He is positive to the dress in the shop, and he places the swing out front by the gas pumps. Creepy.
At the end I went back to the part where they showed the killer. Just to get a good look at him...
Not a film for parents of young kids, as I am. An unsettling look at a very dark side of the human nature.
/Soup