what does it reveal about sydney.
i liked this movie while watching it because of the riveting performance
of sydney ... but the nonsense of john, and clementine, and then the
stupidity of jimmy trying to blackmail sydney did not seem to make any
sense.
first ... in order the evaluate some of these motives you would need
to understand more what happened in atlantic city and why did sydney
kill john's father?
sydney seems to need someone to take care of, and have no needs of his
own except self preservation.
john is a moron who will never get it and does not even listen, so why
does sydney waste his time with john.
maybe there is a clue that i missed, or some point to this, but this
whole movie was stupid to me by the end.
i kept having a nagging thought that somehow john was not playing
straight with sydney ... there was strain at the end where sydney
told john he loved him as a son, and john thinks for a long time and
then returns ... but it looked like he felt guilty, like he was in
with jimmy on the plot against sydney, or that jimmy may have already
told john about sydney and his dad.
and why would sydney care what jimmy told john about he and his dad?
sydney was smart enough to handle any situation, why did that rattle
him? so jimmy's shakedown was just a plain armed robbery which was
stupid on his part because he was known, had the permanent address
and professed to even know about sydney. he should have known sydney
would not stand for that, so he should have put a bullet in him after
getting the money.
the other thing is that when they went down to get the money sydney
could have just called the cops or security in ... after all casinos
have about the tighest security there is anywhere.
this movie made little sense even though it has some emotional
charisma, and that is why it is a little known flop i guess??
either that or i am missing something bigtime.
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