Bacon couldn't have proven anything, and he understood why Robbins died, and understood that he was probably better off dead, anyway. Your email address will not be published.
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Skip to content. April 29, thanh. Just saw the file and my take on the ending of the movie is: 1. Great movie! The answer is very simple: The author was a hack who should never have gone into the movie business. There's no deeper meaning, just bad writing. And no one came to help old Dave then. Dave had to pretend to be someone else. As Celeste gets more agitated, Dave confesses, "Dave's dead.
While all trauma is challenging to discuss, it's often even more taboo for men and boys thanks to constructions of masculinity that demand stoic silence, particularly in the blue-collar milieu of Mystic River. Male survivors often don't get the mental healthcare they need to heal. Killing the pedophile broke something anew in Dave.
Because he wasn't able to talk about what happened to him as a child for so long, his increasingly erratic behavior leads his wife and old friend to think he snapped and killed Katie. There are many visual motifs in Mystic River , including the river itself, of which Jimmy says, "We bury our sins here.
We wash them clean. But a more disturbing theme in the movie is that of the backseat of a car. This small space has a huge impact on all of the events in Mystic River, symbolizing a loss of control over the characters' own destinies.
When Dave was kidnapped by the perverts, they put him in the backseat. He looked back, a haunting fear in his eyes as his friends watch him get taken away. After Katie's death, Sean sends cops to pick up Dave and they put him in the backseat yet again. We can only imagine how terrified and retraumatized Dave must have been, remembering that other time he was taken by supposed cops.
When Jimmy's goons come pick up Dave so Jimmy can get him to confess, they again put Dave in the back. In his moving performance, Tim Robbins embodies the little hurt boy that still lives in Dave's tall, adult body.
When we first meet Brendan, he's hiding in the back of her car, startling her. Later, police find blood in the back after she's shot. It's seeing Katie's abandoned car that sparks Jimmy's extraordinary grief over her loss and eventually leads to Dave's murder. And all this, it's just a dream," Sean says to Jimmy at the end of Mystic River. Imagining what our lives would have been if we'd escaped.
Their names carved into the sidewalk, with Dave's unfinished, is testament to this. After Katie's murder, Jimmy has a disturbing monologue where he talks about the fact that if he'd been kidnapped, he would've been destroyed like Dave and never would've had the courage to talk to beautiful Marita. He says if he'd never met Marita, Katie wouldn't have been born. If she'd never been born, she couldn't have been murdered.
It's a shocking line of thinking that shows the long-term ripples of trauma and how they can affect not just those experiencing it firsthand, but also the subsequent generations. If Just Ray hadn't kept the gun he used to rob a store, his son Silent Ray wouldn't have been able to use it on Katie. She might have lived. And if Dave hadn't spent so much time dissociated, he might have been higher-functioning, like Sean, and nobody would ever think him capable of murder.
The only person posed to break the cycle by the end is Sean, who gets back together with his wife and finally meets his daughter, Nora. Sean shows he will be keeping an eye on Jimmy, and hints that an official kind of justice might one day be served.
The molester's body wasn't found until the morning that Sean went to talk to Jimmy. Sean says "Look at me. I got a call from Celeste Boyle. She was hysterical. She said Dave's missing. Said you might know where he is. We need to talk to him. Boston police found the body of a guy this morning. In the woods behind McGill's.
You can read the scene here - it starts on page but Sean's quote is on Excellent answer djmadscribbler , except for one detail, and probably why Shiz Z.
He actually states "Boston Police found the body of a guy, a pedophile, in the woods behind McGill's. They want to talk to Dave about it. However, I unconsciously made that exact assumption when I watched the movie recently, so I think it would have been a reasonable one, even if it was not in the script.
Dave was the same child molester he talked about. After he was abducted by those guys in the opening scene, he changed into a complete person. He attacked himself that night when Katie was murdered by those kids. This was a lie, as Jimmy slit Dave's throat after gaslighting his former friend.
Sadly, Dave's story was true because Sean's team then found the real killers, Silent Ray and his buddy, John, who didn't want Katie eloping with Ray's brother, Brendan. Sean also got wind of a dead pedophile days later, which corroborated Dave's story.
When he reconciled Dave being missing, he knew what Jimmy did. Jimmy, though, made it clear that Sean should have been faster and better with the investigation. This was a crushing moment, as Dave was betrayed by everyone he ever loved, all for trying to do the right thing.
He was there for Jimmy's family and he was a vigilante that tried to save a kid. What shot him in the foot was that he couldn't talk about sexual abuse or killing someone, so this was a hard topic to broach, which Celeste realized way too late.
Mystic River ended with Celeste and her son scurrying around the town's parade trying to find Dave, but Jimmy's family didn't care. Katie's case was wrapped up and the way Jimmy's wife, Annabeth, left Celeste out in the cold made it even more gut-wrenching.
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