Dream Boy : Great Movie/Terrible Ending

Great Movie/Terrible Ending

I was really enjoying this movie all the way up until Nathan started hearing voices. :/ I get that he's been through trauma and abuse, but I seriously doubt people start hearing voices as a result of that.

And that idiotic line about feeling like he's never going to leave the house. So now he's psychic as well as psychotic? Not to mention that any rational person who felt that way would LEAVE the house immediately.

And then the attempted blow job, knowing full well that their friends could reappear at any moment. As soon as that started happening I KNEW they were going to get caught and that something tragic would happen.

And then the rape. Come on. Why did Nathan go along with it and not fight back? The other guy wasn't that much bigger than him, Nathan could have fought back and escaped.

I can understand the author wanting to write a tragedy, that's fine. But you can't just invent plot points out of nowhere to lead to that tragedy. An organic tragic ending would have involved the father catching them and accidentally killing Nathan or the other one.

But I don't even understand WHY it needed to be a tragedy. WHY couldn't they have been found out by the friends while they were fooling around in the tent and left the whole lame haunted house thing out of it all together? That could have been the first part of the final act conflict. The friends could have spread word around about them, Nathan's dad could have found out, found Nathan, start to beat him, Roy could have beat the hell out of Nathan's dad. And because Nathan said back in the beginning that he liked traveling from place to place, Roy could have suggested they steal the bus and run away.

Re: Great Movie/Terrible Ending

The film was great. I agree that it was stupid of Roy to do that when everyone knew what was coming. I think the author wanted to have a really dramatic ending but it comes across as sloppy and over the top.




When great actors get "overshadowed" by Jude law, there's something very wrong with the world.
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