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mdupla1 — 15 years ago(December 02, 2010 07:54 PM)
Good answers but this is my interpretation -> Booth didn't want to die at the moment of the final confrontation. After all, he sprang on Freddie with a weapon. But I think he had contemplated and perhaps accepted facing death for his crime - partly dictated by both reason and suicidal tendencies for his genuine guilt. But something interesting happens. Freddie takes the gun out and gives Booth the chance to shoot, pretending like its a game of best man wins.
Now, I would have shot Freddie if I didn't feel like I deserved to die, but Booth didn't kill him (proving his willingness to let Freddie decide his fate). But Freddie really DID want Booth to kill him as an act of suicide. Then Booth, realizing that Freddie does indeed want to die, doesn't grant him this cowardly out and runs.
Freddie chases him and shoots Booth out of emotional desperation. But Booth, on the ground looking like a helpless hunted animal, causes Freddie to lose his will to kill Booth as he realizes how entirely displaced his anger is and has been. Simultaneously, Freddie has also suddenly and unwittingly forgiven Booth. But he isn't consciously aware of it until his has a catharsis by witnessing Booth's courage to show his contrition through his sorrow over Freddie's daughter's grave.
POWERFUL SCENE MAN - yes, I got chocked up and I'm a grown man. The haters of this film are merely rejecting the idea of having to relate to the unthinkable sorrow that really can happen to people. And witnessing the power of forgiveness gives you incredible faith in humanity and is a very rewarding experience. -
Soodinum — 14 years ago(January 21, 2012 06:57 PM)
I THOUGHT he said, "Your daddy's coming - he needs your help." My take on the scene was that Booth probably couldn't have been nailed down to one specific reason why he went there. It was like looking for forgiveness, closure (he went to go to her grave before but ran away when he saw her mum); and yeah, partly if he felt it was death that was coming for him (at his house he obviously decided that he didn't want to have killed TWO members of the same family), in the same vein as people saying 'I didn't want to die alone' and remembering back to the painfully touching scene he described earlier of Em's final words to him, he wanted to die near her. It's probably something that needs to be THAT broad and all encompassing, rather than for a specific reason. And yeah - I don't tear u0p and movies much, and a lot of this movie was a bit slow, but that final scene ack.
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euniceanthony — 12 years ago(June 06, 2013 04:55 AM)
Booth says, "Your daddy's coming. I need your help." I don't think he wanted to die. By leading Freddie to the grave, he showed he had genuine remorse for her death, and it made a difference to Freddie. Great movie. I cry every time.
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Argyle302 — 12 years ago(December 21, 2013 11:13 PM)
That is how I saw it as well. I first thought he was taking him to the scene of the accident where he hit Emily. Taking him to the cemetery was better though. I'm sure Booth was just wanting to be shot where Emily was buried, kind of a warped mindset that it would be his way to apologize to her, by letting her dad shoot him. I'm sure he was shocked to find out that Freddy had a change of heart, once he saw her headstone.
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RavenQuote — 15 years ago(March 28, 2011 10:30 PM)
I believe it was Booth's attempt to either show him that he was remorseful by leading him to Emily, or he wanted to depart this life in her presence, i.e. her grave site, if he thought he was going to be killed anyway. It gave him a chance to tell Emily he was sorry. Scene breaks my heart every time I see it.
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doubl3 — 10 years ago(July 29, 2015 05:54 PM)
What's funny is I figured out that was what he was doing as soon as he started running, when he was still on his own street. And my opinion was that 1. he wanted to let him know he cared enough about what he had done that he knew where her grave was and 2. maybe a message that he (Nicholson's character) needed to deal with those feelings about his daughter to get better, not harm him (the drunk driver). And I felt like he was the crossing guard either because he was helping him cross through grief or something similar to that by leading him across to the grave.
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bigernmc3 — 9 years ago(September 14, 2016 02:38 AM)
We thru the eyes of freddie, are just trying to keep up with booth, suddenly realize where we are THE CEMETERY.. BOOTH,then falls to his knees and says:"your daddy's coming." Brings a tear and a sniffle
EVERY TIME ..powerful stuff
BRAVO. S.PENN. BRAVO!