Did anyone else think... *spoilers*

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I agree with tinaone. I don't think Christian wanted to die; if he had truly wanted to die, he wouldn't have expressed such relief when Wyatt finally frees him from his bonds and paper bag at the end. He clearly realized he was taking a risk in trusting Wyatt by going along with a dangerous "game", but I don't see that he wanted any harm to come to himself.

While the film does take a very honest look at mental illness - and it's one of the better ones I have seen - the bigger picture is that the movie is about trust. Wyatt's fearful, anxious existence is the result of his inability to trust other people, even friends he knows well, because he believes they will become monsters. He's of the "Get them before they get me," mindset, and is forced to live a sad existence in which he will never be able to see the world in a different way. On the flip side of that, Christian finds it more and more difficult to trust Wyatt, because of the bizarre and frightening behaviors his friend has been exhibiting. He addresses this directly with Wyatt in the cellar when he says, "Its really scary to trust you right now. But that's what this is, so... trust me. Because I trust you." Christian, clinging to the vestiges of his formerly optimistic persona, believes he can help Wyatt if he can prove to him that there is at least one person who can be trusted in the world. In some sense, the film might be allegorical to severe social anxiety and the way it can isolate people from even those closest to them.

Both actors who played Christian and Wyatt were pitch-perfect in their roles, and may well have played the most convincing pair of longtime buds that I have seen in a movie. I wholeheartedly believed their relationship; some moments were so very authentic that I found myself smiling even though the subject matter was so dark.

Don't think he was suicidal. I think he was just trying to prove to himself that he could face a scary situation, or that wasn't a "pussy.". Minutes prior he was signing up for the army because he wanted to make sure that he could stare down the barrel of a gun and not piss himself. This was his test, and at the end he expressed relief that he didn't piss himself. He was just working out some stuff of his own while attempting to help his friend.

I have had it with these monkey-fightin' snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane!

I do think Christian was playing a form of Russian Roulette with his friends psychosis.

He has lost his job. He is clearly still having trouble dealing with Kate's departure. He has to constantly listen to "Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley" to keep himself motivated and we learn that he tried to kill himself not too long ago.

He has just lost his job and possibly a relationship they seemed perfect for him (the look on his face when Mara reveals her favorite book is a tie between Lord of the Rings and I, Robot was one of incredulous belonging). He is joining he military because "why not?".

Him playing along with his friend's schizophrenic paranoid delusions isn't helping anyone.

I just think that Christian was a good friend and he was going to see that to the end with Wyatt, come what may.





















Just because your last name is heroin don't mean you have to go around selling it
- Harlem Nights

I just think that Christian was a good friend and he was going to see that to the end with Wyatt, come what may.





















Just because your last name is heroin don't mean you have to go around selling it
- Harlem Nights

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