Watched the 25th hour last night. (spoilers)

Jugernot

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and I've got a few questions as I'm a tad confused.

One, at the end, when his dad is telling him about running and that he can never come home. He needs to settle down and lay low for a few years. Was that a daydream? They show them driving at the end and I can't figure out if he decided to do it or if they were still going to jail and he was just thinking about it.

Also, did they say why Tony Saragusa's character ratted him out to the cops? I didn't hear it if they did... All I heard was him saying "I had to do it! I had to do!" when he had the gun at his head.

Great movie, just a couple of moments that left me a questioning what was going on.

Jugs
 

LikeLinus

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Originally posted by: Jugernot
and I've got a few questions as I'm a tad confused.

One, at the end, when his dad is telling him about running and that he can never come home. He needs to settle down and lay low for a few years. Was that a daydream? They show them driving at the end and I can't figure out if he decided to do it or if they were still going to jail and he was just thinking about it.

Also, did they say why Tony Saragusa's character ratted him out to the cops? I didn't hear it if they did... All I heard was him saying "I had to do it! I had to do!" when he had the gun at his head.

Great movie, just a couple of moments that left me a questioning what was going on.

Jugs

Yes it was a daydream. Imagining how life would be like, but he made the decision not to run.

Also they never did tell why his character snitched on him. Assumption is the Cops probably put the pressure on him? Who knows :)
 

Jugernot

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Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Originally posted by: Jugernot
and I've got a few questions as I'm a tad confused.

One, at the end, when his dad is telling him about running and that he can never come home. He needs to settle down and lay low for a few years. Was that a daydream? They show them driving at the end and I can't figure out if he decided to do it or if they were still going to jail and he was just thinking about it.

Also, did they say why Tony Saragusa's character ratted him out to the cops? I didn't hear it if they did... All I heard was him saying "I had to do it! I had to do!" when he had the gun at his head.

Great movie, just a couple of moments that left me a questioning what was going on.

Jugs

Yes it was a daydream. Imagining how life would be like, but he made the decision not to run.

Also they never did tell why his character snitched on him. Assumption is the Cops probably put the pressure on him? Who knows :)

Damn, that is just depressing... :(
 

Phuz

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Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Originally posted by: Jugernot
and I've got a few questions as I'm a tad confused.

One, at the end, when his dad is telling him about running and that he can never come home. He needs to settle down and lay low for a few years. Was that a daydream? They show them driving at the end and I can't figure out if he decided to do it or if they were still going to jail and he was just thinking about it.

Also, did they say why Tony Saragusa's character ratted him out to the cops? I didn't hear it if they did... All I heard was him saying "I had to do it! I had to do!" when he had the gun at his head.

Great movie, just a couple of moments that left me a questioning what was going on.

Jugs

Yes it was a daydream. Imagining how life would be like, but he made the decision not to run.

Also they never did tell why his character snitched on him. Assumption is the Cops probably put the pressure on him? Who knows :)

I think it was more to represent what his life COULD have been if he had led a different life.. not just if he 'ran'.
 

Jugernot

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Originally posted by: Phuz
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Originally posted by: Jugernot
and I've got a few questions as I'm a tad confused.

One, at the end, when his dad is telling him about running and that he can never come home. He needs to settle down and lay low for a few years. Was that a daydream? They show them driving at the end and I can't figure out if he decided to do it or if they were still going to jail and he was just thinking about it.

Also, did they say why Tony Saragusa's character ratted him out to the cops? I didn't hear it if they did... All I heard was him saying "I had to do it! I had to do!" when he had the gun at his head.

Great movie, just a couple of moments that left me a questioning what was going on.

Jugs

Yes it was a daydream. Imagining how life would be like, but he made the decision not to run.

Also they never did tell why his character snitched on him. Assumption is the Cops probably put the pressure on him? Who knows :)

I think it was more to represent what his life COULD have been if he had led a different life.. not just if he 'ran'.

Actually I disagree, as his father is narrating through the whole sequence as if he had to start a second life. He was saying that towns in the middle of the desert are there for a reason, to get away from the world. He gets a job, works for a couple of years, call Naturale (sp?) and they continue on another path. His dad said "You'll always be a new yorker! You can't change that!" as if he was leaving, but he'd always want to come back to his old life.
 

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Awesome movie, awesome book. The book ends the same way, but personally I think he wants to make the right decision this time and chooses jail. He had a chance to get out of the dope game by investing his money, and he made the wrong choice.
 

Mallow

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They said the police "leaned" on the fat guy and made him rat out his friend. Meaning they probably got him on a drug selling charge and gave him probation to give Edward Norton up.