(The imagery directed in the film was clear about that enough.)Īnd that the accidental death in the end was Susan going through the journey of life (driving through love/west Texas with her family/husband, encountering the difficulties of life/the gang members, being too weak to fight against them/life & her true nature, having her child killed/abortion, which was the end of the happy family, dealing with it all/the confrontation with the gang, and accidentally killing him/herself in the process.) I think the accidental death was Susan becoming like her mother. After reading another’s comment, I’m now convinced that Tony is a parallel to Susan. I have a feeling this movie probably sticks even deeper than that, but I'm satisfied with that until I feel like rewatching it :) And she's about to get what's coming to her. Meanwhile, Tony has effectively just killed all his sadness, as per the end of the novel. He never remarried." But in the end, her unhappy marriage is going down the drain as her husband is for whatever reason cheating on her with other women. ![]() Alive in the novel, but not in the real world.Īnd the ironic part is that Susan says about Tony: "it's sad, really. She asks him why he writes, and he tells her it's to keep things alive that will eventually die. The whole book is his retelling of how he ends different chapters in his life, way later than he should have. The part where they die in the novel is the part when they're out of his life. I just finished watching this movie, and you just made everything abundantly clear to me. He cares shit about her and he's no longer a nice guy. That means he got over the whole shit, but he's no longer "The good man" as he's usually pointed along the movie.Ħ) And the main reason to believe Edward is not a good man anymore is the revenge scheme he's obviously putting on Susan, sending her the novel, be in brief touch with her, and finally not showing up in the very anticipated dinner with her. Tony faces Ray (Edward faces the fact Susan cheated on him and killed their unborn child) and kill him, but in the way he's changed, he's no longer the man he used to be, he's broken beyond any repair and he ends up dead. One crueler than the other.Ĥ) I'm more curious about Bobby, it's like the part of Edward who wants to discover the whole shit and bring justice, it's the part of Edward that still cares, but it's dying, it's not gonna last too much.ĥ) Now, the end. Turk is the set up, Lou is the hidding, Ray is the abortion. Obviously Tony stands for Edward.ģ) What does the gang represent? They are shown as ordinary, ignorant and cruel, they mostly represent the hidden relationship between Susan and Hutton. Thoughts?ġ) Tony's wife and daughter have a very strong resemblance to Susan, that means they are parallels.Ģ) The lost of the girls in the family represent the lost of Susan and his child (by abortion), something very cruel if you ask me. Edward not turning up at the end? Was it just a big fuck you to her for not believing in him? It definitely warrants a 2nd viewing. The links between Tony's red headed daughter and wife with Susan and her daughter. Susan had a grown up daughter, is this Edward's child she didn't have aborted. ![]() Does Ray Marcus symbolise Susan? There's a few things that I want answered. And Tony's wife and daughter were raped ultimately how Susan & Edward's relationship was "raped". The way the character of Tony's child was murdered in a way is a metaphor for how Susan "murdered" Edward's baby. The book "Nocturnal Animals" within the film is obviously a metaphor for Edward & Susan. It's always weird when there's a story within a story like this. The parallel stories obviously have some obvious connection. Trying to get my head around it as it's been described as a film you must see twice to see things you've missed. Dark and classy at times with a hint of David Lynch thrown in. Just came out of seeing Nocturnal Animals.
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