"Windmills in the mind" does not work.
This song is too melancholy for a film like this.
shareI felt there was a connection between the song and Thomas' characterisation, reflecting on his life experiences and where he sees himself in the present.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
SPOILERS ahead
The film was melancholy. He has all the money in the world, but he is alone. He is divorced, "she kept the kids." He has a beautiful girlfriend who he can take to Joseph's and watch him fly his Cessna, but he is completely bored and unfulfilled ... to the point that he hatches a plan to rob his own bank for kicks. Then it is doubly sad at the end because he gives up the love of his life. The one character who is his intellectual rival. He's clearly depressed on that plane in the final scene. I thought the song captured thefeel of the movie perfectly, and it was a deserving winner of 1968's Best Song Academy Award.
Yes, he knew he messed up. If he gave himself in, he would have paid it all back. They would’ve given him a slap on the wrist. But she would’ve stood by him.
Getting that last one over at her expense was due to pride. He couldn’t let go.
Ultimately she was the honorable person not him.
Hi Annkat. Good to read your posts again.
I agree with everything you said, but "slap on the wrist?" In the first robbery, a civilian took a bullet in the leg. Then in the second, I think that one got far more messy. Were there more injuries? Deaths? I just seem to recall that it worked a second time, but it was more violent. I don't know about a slap on the wrist. Don't you think even if he paid back all of the money he would face some sort of jail time for no other reason than the injuries the heists occasioned and the threat of physical injury/death endemic to all armed robberies?
Ultimately he wasn’t the one doing the violence. He gave them the job and they did it as they saw fit. If he had Big money like the kind we see today, he would have walked.
But he couldn’t bear the thought of Vicki being his handler. So he switched it. She was asking him to go honest. So he upped the stakes and asked her to be dishonest.
He was a conspirator to a felony. He would be held accountable in the eyes of the law for any death(s)/bodily injur(ies) even if he wasn't wielding the gun or present on the day(s) of the robber(ies).
shareEvery choice in this film was pretentious and nonsensical, so why not?
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