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Mystic River Ending
Posted on 1/27/12 at 9:16 am
Posted on 1/27/12 at 9:16 am
I watched Mystic River last night. What was the point of the last two scenes? Couldn't they have ended the movie with Sean Penn walking down the street after talking with Kevin Bacon?
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Posted on 1/27/12 at 9:19 am to CoolHand
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I watched Mystic River last night. What was the point of the last two scenes? Couldn't they have ended the movie with Sean Penn walking down the street after talking with Kevin Bacon?
its been a couple years, remind me what happens in the last 2 scenes
Posted on 1/27/12 at 9:25 am to CoolHand
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I watched Mystic River last night. What was the point of the last two scenes? Couldn't they have ended the movie with Sean Penn walking down the street after talking with Kevin Bacon?
Well . . . yes. But the parade scene made a point. Penn is still large and in charge.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 9:31 am to CoolHand
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I watched Mystic River last night. What was the point of the last two scenes? Couldn't they have ended the movie with Sean Penn walking down the street after talking with Kevin Bacon?
i've said this since the first time i saw it. It should've ended right there, it was the perfect scene to end on IMO.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 9:32 am to VOR
quote:Forgot about that - yeah, I agree. Shows he's not worried about it, and that nothing will likely come from his popping Tim Robbins.
But the parade scene made a point. Penn is still large and in charge.
Solid movie.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 9:45 am to Ash Williams
From wiki:
The last two scenes I'm talking about is Jimmy talking to his wife and the parade.
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A distraught Jimmy thanks Sean for finding his daughter's killers, but says "if only you had been a little faster." Sean asks Jimmy if he's going to "send Celeste Boyle $500 a month too?". Sean reunites with his wife and his daughter Nora, after apologizing for "driving her away". Jimmy goes to his wife and confesses. She comforts him and tells him that he is a king and kings always make the right decision. At a town parade, Sean sees Jimmy, and mimes shooting him, to let Jimmy know he is watching.
The last two scenes I'm talking about is Jimmy talking to his wife and the parade.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 9:49 am to CoolHand
************* Spoilers *************
The last two scenes are a little awkward, but I think they work on some levels.
Although the death (murder) of Dave Boyle was in error, he wasn't the same person that he was prior to his abduction as a child. It wasn't "Dave Boyle" being killed, it was this other person, a sad and tortured man.
The two other main characters talk about how that event from their youth had changed their lives, and that they are living some kind of dream ever since that day. Working through the events that unfolded as adults was just a tragic continuation of that big event if their youth. It somehow resulted in Sean being able to get back with his wife and child (the missing childhood of his youth) and with Jimmy Markum now having to be a surrogate father to Dave's son (the continuation of Dave's childhood through his son). And Dave was finally put out of his misery.
The last two scenes are a little awkward, but I think they work on some levels.
Although the death (murder) of Dave Boyle was in error, he wasn't the same person that he was prior to his abduction as a child. It wasn't "Dave Boyle" being killed, it was this other person, a sad and tortured man.
The two other main characters talk about how that event from their youth had changed their lives, and that they are living some kind of dream ever since that day. Working through the events that unfolded as adults was just a tragic continuation of that big event if their youth. It somehow resulted in Sean being able to get back with his wife and child (the missing childhood of his youth) and with Jimmy Markum now having to be a surrogate father to Dave's son (the continuation of Dave's childhood through his son). And Dave was finally put out of his misery.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 10:06 am to Jimbeaux
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And Dave was finally put out of his misery.
But surely the film wasn't insinuating that was a good thing.
Posted on 1/27/12 at 10:12 am to CoolHand
No, indeed. Just that it had some cosmic finality to it.
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