Toxic movie - spoiler filled thread....- Page 8

I really appreciate this thread ... it shows that there are movies who are worth to take a closer and deeper look despite a not so compelling surface

Originally posted by: mahiwayyy

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one more review I liked which analyse raya

There was this scene where while the grand confrontation with Ticket...Raya asked Ticket to just kill him....kill him and liberate him from the life that he was no longer able to bear with the guilt and memories...

Raya wasn't really afraid of dying; he was afraid of having to live with himself.

You know My Grandfather in his last days used to recall his entire life and life choices...

He used to say, "As life gets quieter, there are fewer distractions from the past. The people are gone, the battles are over, the noise fades, and what remains is memory."

I remembered my grandfather's words at that moment...

That's what makes Raya's journey so haunting.

His entire life is built around running from himself...through power, violence, women, business, alcohol, even another identity.

But eventually, there is nowhere left to run.

The most terrifying punishment isn't death. It's surviving long enough to sit completely alone with yourself to remember everything...

You begin revisiting the choices you made,the people you hurt, the moments you could have handled differently, the words you never said, the people you failed to protect. And unlike physical pain, there is no medicine for that kind of remembering...

Originally posted by: mahiwayyy

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Ohh, Raya!!!

There are characters whom you just want to enter the screen for, sit next to them and give them a really tight hug.

And then there is Raya...where even though you want to hug him, you are also totally terrified of what his unhinged reaction to that hug might be....and decide to stay away..😭

Because he is all contradictions. Fierce yet vulnerable. Possessive yet deeply loving. Terrifying yet strangely heartbreaking. A man who feels everything with almost frightening intensity, but never quite learned how to love without turning love into protection, control or power

You look at him and see this fiercely intense, possessive, dangerous man, and yet somewhere underneath all that anger and power is someone who is just... deeply wounded...who values emotions and guilt-ridden for everyone and everything...

What a beautifully damaged, deeply flawed, frightening, frustrating, dangerously fascinating character....