It's meant to give Susan a reading of Tony owning up to losing her and a family with her and realizing his weakness, and learning to fight back. And Tony/Edward react by killing even if it kills them. When directly confronted in the end, Ray and Susan both lay their last blow: call Tony/Edward weak. She killed the wife Tony/Edward used to know and love, along with their child, and acted remorseless, ignorant, self righteous and despicable (pretty much, becoming her mother). In my reading of the film, in the novel, Ray was Susan. When I re-watched it, it made much more sense on how Edward is manipulating Susan with the book. ![]() Edward didn't just stand her up, he pointed out, you will be all alone, by yourself, at the end, just like Tony in the book.Īgain this is my interpretation and may not be where the director was going with the film, but I thought I would share, because it helped me enjoy the film much more. This plays to the ending with now Susan is sitting all alone by herself, you can almost say slowly dying because she hates her life now. Now let's get to the end of the book, Tony has gotten his revenge, everything he wanted and is now slowly dying, by himself, all alone in the dessert. Even the police officer (Michael Shannon, by the way excellent acting) asks why he didn't go back? This is in a way telling Susan, Tony is weak, as she was weak. He even hides when the attackers come back for him. Edward even asks Susan in a flash back, "do you love me?", if you do, you have to fight for love", sorry that might not be the exact quote, but if compared to the story in the book, Tony(Susan) doesn't really fight for his family when confronted by the hoodlums. Edward is telling Susan how she lost everything because she didn't fight for their relationship. The main character in the book is Susan, not Edward. Then I started thinking about this and then it occurred to me. I felt like it was a cop out and really a boring way to end the movie if this was the case. ![]() ![]() The internet reviewers points were that Susan deserved this and this was somehow Edward's final act of revenge. Although this is a good theory, it really doesn't have any impact as to why Susan is left all alone in the restaurant. Going back to the reviews, most were how Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal) was represented by Tony in the book and how Susan (Amy Adams) leaving him was as painful as Tony losing his family in the book. In my interpretation, not saying it's correct, if you follow the book and see the outcome you are left with a powerful comparison between the book and Susan's real life. Why was Edward standing Susan up such a big deal? I mean who hasn't been stood up before. Most thought the ending was too abrupt, didn't leave you with closure. I don't usually do reviews but felt the need in this case. Ok so this review is going to have some spoilers, but I wanted to post my thoughts as opposed to what I've been reading on the internet.
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