![]() ![]() Was it the quality? Was it the price? What was it? The family continues to give cop-out answers, "it's just there." It's finally explained that it's something to be loved in the same way as you would love a puppy or a family member. The most striking scene for me was when Novak's character was trying to reason why Whataburger was so loved by this family. Because vengeance matters and is a core human value and the movie is partially an exploration of how a person is driven to accept the personal cost of vengeance as a meta-rational act.Īlso, in the end it's a literal chekhov's gun while being a callback to Texas gun/honor lifestyle and how a stranger in a strange land is infected by it's culture, additional themes that are repeatedly hammered in the movie. It makes a mockery of his entire lived experience and it pisses him off and he feels the desire for vengeance intrinsic to human nature that he has rationally analyzed more than once over the course of the movie. He can convince himself that Kutcher's character is completely right because it dovetails with his own personal philosophy of being a detached observer and that is, at that moment in time, too much of an injustice to bear because this is the most he has cared about anything in his entire life. ![]() The meaning is literally in the title of the movie. ![]()
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