Monday, March 7, 2016

Mystic River

      Mystic River is a movie with a series of unfortunate events all stemming from mistakes made by the characters. Dave is left emotionally damaged from a molestation during childhood and seems borderline insane to the people around him. Jimmy just lost his most loved daughter and has no other prime suspect but Dave. In Jimmy's eyes, killing Dave seems like a very rational way to cope with Katie's murder. With further inspection, Jimmy is no stranger to getting his hands dirty as he murdered his former crime partner for snitching.  This reveals a much darker side of Jimmy in which he has no relation to the word innocence. As for Sean, he clearly finds out that Jimmy wrongly murdered Dave for a crime Dave did not commit. Sean chooses to conceal his evidence and let Jimmy walk free. Therefore, Sean is just as guilty as Jimmy is.
       The only character in this story who deserves genuine forgiveness is Dave. Dave was raped as a child while his friends did nothing to help. From that moment on, Dave was never the same. He transformed his pain into something greater. He did not want to see other kids get molested the way he did. To stop this, it required him to murder a pedophile which leads to him being wrongly accused of the death of Katie. The price he paid for this misunderstanding was his life. Dave was nothing more than a damaged human being who did not want to see others hurt the way he was. Although he seemed shady, Dave was a good man. 

2 comments:

  1. Your response to this question was excellent. Comparing it with a series of unfortunate event is the exact description of this movie. Also I like how you not only accused Jimmy as being guilty but Sean also because many people will oversee that because of his job as a detective.

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  2. I like how you suggest Jimmy killed Dave as a way to cope with the grief of Katie's death. He may not have been 100 percent sure Dave killed her, but he needed a way out of all the anguish he was feeling. Also, Sean and Jimmy are both guilty of a crime at the end of the story, just as they were guilty of watching Dave get into the car when they were kids.

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