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Date of upload: Nov 10, 2023 ^^
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When he spared the client, I think that his words are to build pure fear and constant torture. In the beginning, The killer stated that “one of the greatest lies said by the United State Military-Infrastructure is that sleep deprivation didn’t qualify as torture”. Basically The Client is now tortured with the fact that such a killer is still on the loose and can strike at anytime for a slow gruesome death. Sleep Deprivation, Fear and Anxiety of The Killer, the client really is going thru literal hell, Hense I don’t think he’s being very empathetic with the client.
That’s my own theory so tell me if I’m wrong and ur own opinions
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I think the eye twitch and finally closing his eyes has to do with his finally resting and turning off his perpetual vigilance. Fassbender conscientiously chose not to blink in a single frame of this movie until the final frame. So the first blink followed by the twitch and then closing his eyes, is him resigning to blindly accept fate whatever that may be.
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Fincher really needs to do more movies like this...watched this morning and afterwards I was like I hope he does another one...been awhile reminds me of Dexter inner monologue was awesome and the lighting and had hints of fight club I wouldn't mind seeing a assassin with split personality but filmed like this...but yeah this is fincher doing doing what he does best thank you Mr fincher please don't have us fans waiting for so long until the next one
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In the beginning- the killer explains that a small group of people though powerful feel insecure and need protection from “the many”. They have to control the “many” who feel like they are safe under the protection of the few.
Throughout the rest of the movie each character represents their own motivations and feelings of protection.
The lawyer’s secretary represents “the many”. When faced with death all that matters is that her insurance money goes to her family and her family sees her death as an accident- not that she’s part of an assassination ring.
The brute- is “protected” by intimidation and large bombastic strong things- his posse, the hummer truck, the dog “diva” and his muscles.
The Q-tip woman is protected by her cunning- she is physically weaker but can prey on anyone’s sympathy. She is protected by others’ weaknesses.
The killer does not kill the billionaire at the end bc the billionaire only wants to feel safe from blowback.
By breaking into the billionaire’s condo, the killer has shown that nothing is impenetrable and that the billionaire should fear the killer for the rest of his life.
This is a stronger protection than killing the billionaire bc if he killed the billionaire a new manhunt for the killer would ensue.
The killer now has plenty of money and has erased every potential threat; protected so that he can live like “the many” because he is “protected” by his manipulation of “the few”.
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I disagree with most of the comments about letting the client free. It was not just he is rich and the police would investigate much more than his previous victims. He does say F-it! in his head and went through a lot to get into his high security apartment. I believe he fully intended to kill the client. He let him live because the client gave a truthful explanation that was in line with what he already suspected. That it was the lawyer who ordered the hit on his "innocent" girlfriend. That was what he was getting revenge for. The Killer thought what they did crossed the line in that he was in trouble for botching the hit but they instead punished an innocent and instead beat up and scarred his girlfriend. It was against his very convoluted "moral code".
The film actually shows the level of culpability and his targets knowing why he was after them. The first is the lawyer, who acts indignant and says repeatedly "why did you go home?". He expected the Killer to run and hide and would not know his girlfriend was to be killed. (They tell us she survived only through luck). He had to punish the killer in some way, and expected he was gone and could not kill him, so he took the punishment out on the only person the killer (maybe loved?) cared about. He was most culpable and died pretty horribly.
The Brute knows what he did and know why he is there but is such a killer himself he does not apologize. The Expert knows why he is there too, but unlike the first two, apologizes and says she did not approve, but her attitude towards her job and her nihilism made it impossible for her to stop it. So she died too. She was still culpable, but at least knew it was wrong, but that was enough to kill her. BUT not as harshly as the others and he could at least talk civilly to her.
When he confronted the client, There was the least culpability and he could tell the client was telling the truth and he did not know his girlfriend was to be a target, just him (implied) and the Killer was fine with that as he could accept that. But he warns him still that the "clean up" for the botched hit is over and not to look for him, and the client I believe absolutely understood and will not.
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The movie is a bit more layered than at first glance I think. I can see themes from other movies reappearing in this one. The way the Killer uses both modern tech, like the card key fob, or his heart monitor watch, and later uses an old fashioned rollerdex reminded me of the same theme of digital versus analog in Dragon Tattoo. Then there's Finchers love of screens. The Social Network, Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl and now The Killer have tons of shots of screens..computer screens, cctv monitors, plasma screen tvs, all sorts. It makes me think the shot where the Killer is thrown against a plasma screen, smashing it, has metaphorical meaning too. It's an intriguing movie and I haven't figured out exactly why yet. Also, how great is it seeing Fassbender in a lead role again?! The guy is effortlessly charismatic.
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One thing I actually liked is how humanized he was. Usually these kinds of portray the hit man as some sort of overpowered demigod with superhuman mental and physical capabilities. They both prepare for anything and adapt to everything. This is especially true in the beginning of the film, when we are being introduced to the person. We watch an example of the characters prowess to set the stage. But in this we see him going through extreme boredom, which completely subverts our expectations. And to double down, the first action he takes is very incompetent. We watch him make a predictable mistake, one we felt that even we wouldn't have made it. Then he basically panicked. I immediately knew this was going to be good. Hell even looking at the Netflix recommended related to this movie is just a bunch of movies that are exactly the same. And those are just the very recent ones. I'd be willing to bet you could give anyone a letter and they could come up with 5 titles off the top of their head beginning with that letter
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Great job. I just want to add the McDonald's part was also methodical as he said millions of people buy there. (Helping him camouflage ) and was the perfect place to get 10g of protein for a peso. He then eats it with out the bread to cut the most of the unnutritious calories. Thar whole part was like a hit man's hack to eat breakfast low key.
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I don't think he ever meant to kill the client. Even when he buys the Glock he says he needs no ammo. He just wants to scare the guy, that's all. The guy is too big and the attention wouldn't be nice. And he gets the confirmation that the people he already killed are the ones responsible, particularly the lawyer. He often asks "What is in it for me?" Killing the client: nothing, the vengeance was already done.
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not killing the client was a purely logical and rational decision consistent with his first principles. he went intending to kill, knowing the risk/reward was high (saying the higher the net worth, the more the police will investigate), then made the decision not to kill when the client provided a plausible explanation putting all the blame on the people he had already killed. it wouldve been foolish for him to up his exposure for no real logical upside.
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