Asian clerk
Hi, all. Got a question for you.
What was the point of scaring that poor Asian kid at the convenience store into going back to school by pointing a gun to his head? Yeah sure, death threat and adrenaline rush will scare him shitless, kick him in the balls, and give his life a purpose and a meaning. He was stagnant and now will feel alive. Great motivation, we all could use it, I get it, but what's the end game there? Wasn't he just gonna become another Jack? Young, educated, well to do consumer?
Your thoughts?
Yeah no kidding, the movie's ending indirectly points out that being a consumer is not all that bad.
It's still kinda of a weird notion though. Didn't Jack meant to experience life by becoming successful too? But point is, it didn't get him anywhere even with that college degree, nice job and a condo. That what bugs me. It's not like he was born wanting to become an anarchist lunatic from the get go, but pussied out and chose the more conventional path. The point of the movie was that cushy, comfortable consumer lifestyle Jack and most of us crave got him to hate his life. And now that Asian kid is going the same route, or so it seems that way to me. That's my puzzlement.
He is already consumer, or rather, in the machine... he was working shitty shifts of the shitty job... with finishing school he might stay in the machine but he will do what he dreamed of. My guess is that there is the point.
I think the point is that being a young, educated, well to do consumer is not necessarily bad or wrong. That being in a rut, not doing what you meant to do, essentially not experiencing life was the thing to be removed.