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Magic Hate Ball posted:There are other movie boards? just the three outside Ebbing, Missouri iirc
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:I came here to see if my personal theory about Mr. Idaho is discussed, and not seeing it in the thread. There's not enough concrete evidence in the movie to really pin down the character, so your read on him is just as valid as any other. I wouldn't say that it's more 'complicated' to presume this guy committed a similar crime while overseas, though; it seems more directly tied to one of the movies themes in which almost everyone deep down is doing their best to be a good person but are just huge, huge dumbasses in the way they go about it.
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In catching up with this thread after I watched it, I noticed that a lot of posters are taking it as read that Dixon absolutely, no question "tortured" a "black man". The entire time I was watching the film, I took the view that the deliberate vagueness about that situation, coupled with things Dixon himself says, was meant to make us question what really happened. The film goes out of its way to make a point about assuming things about people ("Which, you might be surprised to learn, I am against") so I'm wondering why any of y'all took that plot point as gospel truth?
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Mar 29, 2018 21:53
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He throws a guy out a window (and then beats him further) so it seems pretty plausible. Even willoughby couldn't spin it. I saw no reason not to take it at face value.
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Mar 29, 2018 23:44
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No Wave posted:He throws a guy out a window (and then beats him further) so it seems pretty plausible. Well, that was in an extraordinary circumstance. Presumably he hadn't just had his best friend/father figure kill himself the day he interrogated the black guy.
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Mar 30, 2018 01:57
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precision posted:Well, that was in an extraordinary circumstance. Presumably he hadn't just had his best friend/father figure kill himself the day he interrogated the black guy. Most people don't throw an innocent civilian through a window under any circumstance though
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Mar 30, 2018 03:13
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General Dog posted:Most people don't throw an innocent civilian through a window under any circumstance though Most people wouldn't gently caress a fishman but then there are some folk'll
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Mar 30, 2018 03:19
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General Dog posted:Most people don't throw an innocent civilian through a window under any circumstance though I think it's easy to support the argument that the text of the film intends what Dixon did to be ambiguous. It's not as easy to find evidence that the film intends it to be an absolute objective fact.
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Mar 30, 2018 04:35
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precision posted:I think it's easy to support the argument that the text of the film intends what Dixon did to be ambiguous. It's not as easy to find evidence that the film intends it to be an absolute objective fact.
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Mar 30, 2018 10:10
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No Wave posted:Everyone seems to agree he did it That's the main reason that I think it's meant to be ambiguous, given the film's central theme of "perception is not reality".
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