Why did Henry go from being smart and then turned into an idiot later?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Good Son
RynoII — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 09:53 PM)
Basically when the mother accuses him taking the rubber ducky without telling her he had it, she asks Henry how he got it. He says he took it cause he wanted something to remember Richard by. He then asks if he could please have it back.
The mother says no.
Now the smart thing for Henry to do would have been just be okay with it and let the mother have it, in order to derail suspicions away from him. He could just act all innocent about it, say he was sorry and let the mother have it. Act all sorry and cool about it.
But instead he decides to fight her for it as hard as he can and goes crazy nuts on her. Why? He was really smart up into this point, and then turns into an emotionally unstable idiot all of a sudden.
It seems the writers did this cause they had no idea how to get the mother to turn around, so they had to turn the villain into a idiot, so he could have his downfall, so to speak.
Unless I am wrong? -
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whitespirit26 — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 04:32 AM)
Out of suspicion? Possibly. Out of losing the ducky, no. And that was the focal point for him at the time. I think we're supposed to be surprised by his reaction, showing just how deeply he stakes his claim on things.
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RynoII — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 10:58 AM)
Why did he want the ducky so bad? Even if his Mom is suspicious she doesn't have enough proof in her own mind. If the son goes psycho on her, than that will increase her suspicions more. Isn't keep her suspicion lower much more important than the ducky?
I mean Henry starts off as a smart killer. A person who considers himself a mastermind. Why would a true mastermind throw everything a way to keep the duck? Basically he is never going to get to kill anyone else, if he holds onto the duck. The duck is not important compared to the rest of his goal. Why doesn't he realize this? -
fallen_anakin — 9 years ago(November 08, 2016 02:47 PM)
Freaking out over the duck and yelling Give it to me was weird. I remember asking my dad when I was young why he freaked out and my dad said because he wanted the duck. The thing is I understand if he was freaking out over an object that would be understandable as being important to him. I could see him having objects like that. In the movie the bad seed Rhoda definitely had objects she not only wanted but would kill to have. She freaked out and physically fought a boy and killed him for a penmanship medal. She simply wanted the medal. Now in the case here with Henry a 12 year old boy is not going to want to possess a ducky. I do wonder if it had importance to him a few years before(they never say how long ago he killed his brother) when he killed his brother. Or maybe out of spite he just did not want his mother to have it after he died because it was a connection to the brother. Henry had a mean little mind. Also think about the fact he through it in the well. Do you think he did this ultimately because it was possible evidence to his crime and an explanation to why he freaked out about the duck? Or did he just hate the idea of her having it because he is a little fu$$ and got rid of it entirely?
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