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18th Hall of Fame
Road to Perdition
2002
WARNING: "ending" spoilers below
I feel like the story is mostly pretty straight forward, but I do like the arc of Hanks’ character, who seems distanced to his family but deeply dedicated to his job; these two things slowly change sides throughout the story, ending in his own death. While I’m fine with the ending being nicely folded together by a sentimental voice-over, I’m not necessarily a fan of the predictable and rather perplexing ending at the beach house. While my comments on the character’s arc above could be one way of explaining either his sudden unawareness or his purposely “necessary” sacrifice to the criminal world, I still think it to be weird that Hanks would just “forget” about the killer hunting him earlier. Again, it could be one of the two previously mentioned reasons, as to why he ended up dead and thereby didn’t “forget”. But honestly, I doubt it. The film isn’t exactly subtle throughout, so why should it suddenly become so? Therefore, I feel it is completely out of character for Hanks to suddenly “forget” about the killer or think it is all over because he killed almost everybody, including the man that had him on contract.
I feel like the story is mostly pretty straight forward, but I do like the arc of Hanks’ character, who seems distanced to his family but deeply dedicated to his job; these two things slowly change sides throughout the story, ending in his own death. While I’m fine with the ending being nicely folded together by a sentimental voice-over, I’m not necessarily a fan of the predictable and rather perplexing ending at the beach house. While my comments on the character’s arc above could be one way of explaining either his sudden unawareness or his purposely “necessary” sacrifice to the criminal world, I still think it to be weird that Hanks would just “forget” about the killer hunting him earlier. Again, it could be one of the two previously mentioned reasons, as to why he ended up dead and thereby didn’t “forget”. But honestly, I doubt it. The film isn’t exactly subtle throughout, so why should it suddenly become so? Therefore, I feel it is completely out of character for Hanks to suddenly “forget” about the killer or think it is all over because he killed almost everybody, including the man that had him on contract.
I've really enjoyed reading the varying reviews of my nom with pluses and minuses!
WARNING: "speaking of the ending" spoilers below
I do feel pretty similar it and remember feeling it being sort of "off" the first time I saw this. Thinking it was a shout out to the old Hays Restrictions that "bad guys get caught or die in a film" or simply put there to give the ending more of a punch.
After a few more watches I do see how, Hank's character, taking a moment to just breathe, watching his son on the beach could be taken unaware by Jude Law's character sitting in waiting for him.
We all let our guard down, hoping the worst is behind us, even when it isn't. Simple human fallibility, I'm afraid.
I do feel pretty similar it and remember feeling it being sort of "off" the first time I saw this. Thinking it was a shout out to the old Hays Restrictions that "bad guys get caught or die in a film" or simply put there to give the ending more of a punch.
After a few more watches I do see how, Hank's character, taking a moment to just breathe, watching his son on the beach could be taken unaware by Jude Law's character sitting in waiting for him.
We all let our guard down, hoping the worst is behind us, even when it isn't. Simple human fallibility, I'm afraid.
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