At the end of the movie after we found out it was Sam, the dinner server I had a very weird image in my head. I thought of the plant from A Raison in the Sun, Mama's plant, and the connections that Virgil made with every to the murder ended up growing like a plant. I found it very odd, but it made sense. It was just a small connection I made between the two stories.
Well, since we already finished the movie and we all know that Sam was the killer, I guess I could say who I thought it was? I thought it was actually the girl or the wife. I was thinking that maybe, since the wife might have found out about the girl, the wife wanted revenge and tried to frame the girl, but the girl seemed too innocent to be a target. Then after we saw how jumpy the girl was when she went into the abortionist, I thought maybe she killed the guy for the abortion money. Those were my two suspects.
I thought Virgil was the killer, and we was doing all that investigation to put the blame away from him. Well not really, but I was hoping that. The movie, though, was interesting in that it showed the two worlds of the south. It's hard to imagine that some people were still living there like it was the 1860's, not the 1960's. That movie is set only forty years ago, and all that racism is still a little incredulous. The movie also helped to show why there was so much contempt between the two races. As in Native Son, the poor whites hate the blacks because they both compete for the same jobs. They feel threatened, and instead of categorizing them by class, that categorize their competition by race.
I thought the chief was the killer. He was so eager to put someone away for murdering What's-his-name, so I thought he was just trying to cover up his own crime.
Daniel brings up an interesting point. Although the white sheriff was not the murderer, isn’t it kind of pathetic the way we think?—that we must punish someone else to cover up for the things we have done. This is similar in Native Son. After killing Mary, Bigger recruits Bessie to plot with him how to cover up what he has done and come up with a way to actually gain financially from the situation. However, when she becomes scared and no longer wants to cooperate, bigger kills her. Bessie didn’t kill Mary, but is still punished for it. Fair?—not even close.
Honestly, I thought the real killer would be one of the plantation owner's goons. But looking back, the owner of the Diner being the murderer was just as plausable. All in all, it was a great movie... just wish I could remember the main characters real name.
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At the end of the movie after we found out it was Sam, the dinner server I had a very weird image in my head. I thought of the plant from A Raison in the Sun, Mama's plant, and the connections that Virgil made with every to the murder ended up growing like a plant. I found it very odd, but it made sense. It was just a small connection I made between the two stories.
ReplyDeleteWell, since we already finished the movie and we all know that Sam was the killer, I guess I could say who I thought it was? I thought it was actually the girl or the wife. I was thinking that maybe, since the wife might have found out about the girl, the wife wanted revenge and tried to frame the girl, but the girl seemed too innocent to be a target. Then after we saw how jumpy the girl was when she went into the abortionist, I thought maybe she killed the guy for the abortion money. Those were my two suspects.
ReplyDeleteI thought Virgil was the killer, and we was doing all that investigation to put the blame away from him. Well not really, but I was hoping that. The movie, though, was interesting in that it showed the two worlds of the south. It's hard to imagine that some people were still living there like it was the 1860's, not the 1960's. That movie is set only forty years ago, and all that racism is still a little incredulous. The movie also helped to show why there was so much contempt between the two races. As in Native Son, the poor whites hate the blacks because they both compete for the same jobs. They feel threatened, and instead of categorizing them by class, that categorize their competition by race.
ReplyDeleteI thought the chief was the killer. He was so eager to put someone away for murdering What's-his-name, so I thought he was just trying to cover up his own crime.
ReplyDeleteDaniel brings up an interesting point. Although the white sheriff was not the murderer, isn’t it kind of pathetic the way we think?—that we must punish someone else to cover up for the things we have done. This is similar in Native Son. After killing Mary, Bigger recruits Bessie to plot with him how to cover up what he has done and come up with a way to actually gain financially from the situation. However, when she becomes scared and no longer wants to cooperate, bigger kills her. Bessie didn’t kill Mary, but is still punished for it. Fair?—not even close.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I thought the real killer would be one of the plantation owner's goons. But looking back, the owner of the Diner being the murderer was just as plausable. All in all, it was a great movie... just wish I could remember the main characters real name.
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