I know this was written already in the other thread, but I wanted to start a new topic with another question added to the one listed already.
Why was he playing golf? I initally thought it was his way of venting his stress or getting his mind off of things, but I don't know. What do you think?
Second question: Why was the girl blocking his way?
Did he play golf before he entered the garden and started to practise?
Bothe the ball and the club was brought from the garden when they left, yes?
Hi did not own these items from before, no?
The millions of metaphors on this all sounds nice, but I don't think that was it. This film is a big society vs. nature film, and our lead reperesents nature. He never says anything and is hated as an outcast of society. However he still clings on to what he ultimately is, human, through his golfing, even though this strays from his own nature. The woman gets between him and the golf ball because she wants him to be himself.
shareim probably looking at this in a way that's entirely too simple, but i got the impression that she just wanted him to pay attention to her when she would step in front of the ball. any woman i ever knew in real life, that is what she would have wanted.
shareGolf represents anger. When our hero sees the woman being abused by her husband, he starts hitting golf balls. The husband comes out to see what's happening and our hero lets loose his anger on him.
When our hero is with the woman and feeling angry, he controls it by restricting it's travel to within a short circle. Eventually the woman puts herself in front of our hero anger. He realizes he might hurt her and stops. Later our hero is angry again, and this the woman steps aside. As a result, an innocent person is badly hurt. He learns a hard lesson: Anger can hurt people in ways you don't expect.
He takes this lesson with him when he is being interrogated by the police, offering the policeman smiles. It's only after the policeman drops our hog-tied hero off for a beating, that he decided he seek revenge on the him.
When husband learns his wife has been found he starts swinging his clubs. In one scene, after a few shots on the balls, he grabs his wife and threatens her.
In another scene, when the boxer is arguing with his girlfriend he get angry, grabs a golf club, and storms into another room looking for our hero.
I thought that hitting the tied gol ball was a metaphor for his character, it goes nowhere but in a loop, like his actions it does not interact with the world but is 'contained'
She stand infront of the ball in an effort to get him to engage.
When the ball breaks free and injures the woman (I don't know if she was killed) it kind of foreshadows tragedy, that once he engages in the world he's withdrawn from the concequences are inevitable, collision will occur.
I dont kno why he was playing golf, but when i saw her step in front of him it looked to me like it was her way of saying she trusts him. Thats why she stays with him and helps him do what he does in the houses they break into.
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