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5. "It wasn't the ending itself"
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It's that it came from out of nowhere. He should have set it up properly. He's been doing this too long to not understand the technique of setup and payoff.

As I mentioned in a different thread, think of the movie NETWORK. Spike says that was an inspiration, and points out that that movie ends in a televised shooting, as if that justifies what he was trying to do. But NETWORK starts off with that guy getting fired, and then announcing that he will kill himself in his last telecast. Ratings saves him as everyone tunes in to see what the "Madman of the Airwaves" will do next. He stays alive as long as the ratings stay up. Meanwhile, the revolutionaries get their own show, and they are robbing banks live on TV, adding to the absurdity. But the hoopla starts to die down, the mania gets out of hand, and while it may not have been predictable, it certianly fits into the picture when an assassin kills the guy at the end.

Spike has no set up. Absolutely nothing in the movie explains or justifies the violent ending of the movie. Nothing. It comes from out the blue, and he asks us to accept it just because these people have sinned and they are guilty and they need to pay. Whatever. Perhaps they do. But nothing in the movie says that the people will turn to violence. Here, I speaking mainly about Jada's character, but even the Mau Mau's shooting is ham-fisted.

RED

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enough in itself as a system of
thought, but not much
good for explaining anything."
© Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up
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Bamboozled's NEW Ending [View all] , Solarus, Wed May-09-01 03:04 PM
 
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not to be changed
May 09th 2001
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RE: Bamboozled's NEW Ending
May 09th 2001
2
i wouldn't change it.
May 09th 2001
3
WHAT???????????????????????????
May 14th 2001
29
RE: Bamboozled's NEW Ending
May 09th 2001
4
i agree 100%
May 10th 2001
6
That's what this post is for
May 10th 2001
8
RE: i agree 100%
May 11th 2001
16
      Good one!
May 11th 2001
21
wasn't there foreshadowing with manray, though?
May 10th 2001
7
what about
May 10th 2001
9
      i'm not disagreeing with your original claim...
May 10th 2001
10
           RE: i'm not disagreeing with your original claim...
May 10th 2001
13
           Thank you
May 11th 2001
22
                RE: Thank you
May 12th 2001
25
Network--So Obvious
May 11th 2001
18
RE: Bamboozled's NEW Ending
May 10th 2001
11
the love triangle.
May 10th 2001
12
my ending
May 10th 2001
14
Dunwitty should've died....
May 10th 2001
15
RE: Dunwitty should've died....
May 14th 2001
30
sorry... I didn't round it out did I?
May 11th 2001
17
RE: Bamboozled's NEW Ending
May 11th 2001
19
RE: Bamboozled's NEW Ending
May 11th 2001
20
      HA HA
May 11th 2001
23
NOBODY should have died.
Wise_7
May 12th 2001
24
The Producers
May 13th 2001
26
RE: The Producers
May 13th 2001
27
      RE: The Producers
May 13th 2001
28

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