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** To be totally fair, no one ever said it wasn't. Lester's just blowing up because his wife is letting her fixation on her particular meaningless material possession come between an intimate moment between them. Had Lester done the same thing with his car, we would have been entirely fair to call him out on any hypocrisy -- but since he doesn't that we see, we can't.
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** To be totally fair, no one ever said it wasn't.the Firebird wasn't a meaningless possession. Lester's just blowing up because his wife is letting her fixation on her particular meaningless material possession come between an intimate moment between them. Had Lester done the same thing with his car, we would have been entirely fair to call him out on any hypocrisy -- but since he doesn't that we see, we can't.
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** No one ever says it's not, though. Lester is at peace and has achieved and epiphany, and the movie focusses on that because, well, it's his story and he's the main character. But the fact that we see all the main characters reacting to his murder and its aftermath is clearly intended to suggest that not everything has been resolved ideally for everyone.
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** No one ever says it's not, otherwise, though. Lester is at peace and has achieved and epiphany, and the movie focusses on that because, well, it's his story and he's the main character. character and that's just basic storytelling. But the fact that we see all the main characters reacting to his murder and its aftermath with varying degrees of alarm and chaos is clearly intended to suggest that not everything has been resolved ideally for everyone.
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** No one ever says it's not, though. Lester is at peace and has achieved and epiphany, and the movie focusses on that because, well, it's his story and he's the main character. But the fact that we see all the main characters reacting to his murder and its aftermath is clearly intended to suggest that not everything has been resolved ideally for everyone.
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** To be totally fair, no one ever said it wasn't. Lester's just blowing up because his wife is letting her fixation on her particular meaningless material possession come between an intimate moment between them. Had Lester done the same thing with his car, we would have been entirely fair to call him out on any hypocrisy -- but since he doesn't that we see, we can't.
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** His subplot in the movie is basically about him reaching his breaking point with his dad and deciding to do just that, remember, so presumably things just hadn't gotten to the point where he'd reached his breaking point. Also, he seems relatively close to his mother, so might not have wanted to abandon her.
