I'm a sucker for a good redemption story, but this character wasn't set up as having any hope of becoming a positive force in anyone's life. What else was there to him? He was clearly not much of a husband, he was barely a father, he stole the watches his business associate was keeping in his safe.
#Uncut gems ending movie
Once he scores at the end, my first reaction was "They better be killing this guy, or else I don't really see what the point of this arc has been." Fortunately, the mob guy was there to tie it all up and give his character the closure the movie more or less demanded. It's interesting that you would say that, since I saw him as a wildly unsympathetic character who managed to skate through the movie hurting everyone around him while narcissistically refusing to even acknowledge the role his own addiction is playing in hurting his family and associates. His gambling addiction wasn't everything about him, and to not have empathized with him at all would be weird So yeah again, was Howard dying really worse/more tragic than if he had lived?Īlso if Howard did live at the end, how do you think it changes the theme/moral of the film? I think that had Howard lived at the end of this story that he still would have died later, but perhaps would have gotten even more people hurt/killed or who knows what else. Howard was a scumbag and no matter how big he won he'd never change or give up his wild and dangerous lifestyle. Personally while I enjoy the ending of the film and am unsure whether the Safdies were going for a "tragic" ending, I think if they were it would have been better to leave Howard alive. The reason I'm making this post though is not to say I wish Howard didn't die but rather, was Howard dying really worse/more tragic than him living? It's really not a surprise based on his actions and "affiliates," but I was still a bit disappointed that he had to die and it is sort of tragic. One of these predictable events is how Howard will end the movie, which just so happens to be with a bullet in the cheek.
The movie is kinda predictable but more in a way that makes you say "god I hope X doesn't happen" and then it of course does. I saw Uncut Gems the other day and loved it, really excellent movie, stressed the hell out of me.
In the title but again SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!
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