MovieChat Forums > In the Valley of Elah (2007) Discussion > SPOILERS ALERT, so in the end...

SPOILERS ALERT, so in the end...


... did you understand who it was then who killed Mike and why, and will he get punished for it?

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I just came on here to complain about the ending as I just finished it myself. Worst payoff and anticlimactic ending ever.
His army mate killed him because PTSD. They would have done time for it

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So what was the motivation for the murder?

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not sure - ptsd related

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So PTSD, as serious and strong as it is, is likely to get soldiers to come out and kill their own comrades just like that in peaceful times?

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yes google Chris Kyle

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Yes, indeed.

By the way, was it a good thing that say as wrong as it WAS indeed to murder him, his father, Tommy Lee Jones' character, apart from that one incident when he beat up that running suspect, did not exact deadly revenge like in traditional American cinema?

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They had a quarrel over an unsettled bill of sorts

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Yeah, a good argument to take away someone's life just like that, NOT.

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Now you're beginning to understand PTSD.

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